Journalistic Jargon
What is attribution?
Credit given to who said what or the source of facts.
What is journalism?
Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information
To provide citizens with the information they need to be free and self-governing.
The more democratic the nation, the more news it has.
What is the Discipline of Verification?
Getting it right every time! Journalistic methods can and should be neutral and objective.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Provides the public with free access to federal agency records.
What is a copy?
The words that comprise an article, caption, news story, broadcast script, etc.
What is journalism's first obligation to?
What are at least three issues that threaten fair and accurate reporting?
AI
Commercialization of the news; entertainment value
Profit margins
Propaganda
Ideological News
Political Pressure
Pseudo-Journalism
Fake news
"Media Personalities"
Fairly representing varied viewpoints and improving the quality of public debate by providing verified facts.
What does the Right to Know Law (RTKL) do?
Public records are generally available to anyone who requests them.
What isthe act of editorializing?
The inappropriate use of an author's opinion in a news article
What is libel?
What does the fourth estate refer to?
The news media's role as a watchdog over the government.
How can you keep the news comprehensive and proportional?
By including all necessary details and information while also keeping the news in proportion to its magnitude and importance.
This journalistic term refers to the spoken defamation of character.
What is slander?
What qualifies as hard news?
Timely information that must be reported ASAP. News that is serious and urgent.
This journalistic term refers to a prompt correction of a published article, which is a legal and ethical responsibility
What is an admission of error?
True or false: Journalists do not have bias
False: No Journalist is without bias.
What does it mean to realize that citizens have rights and responsibilities when it comes to the news?
The average citizen becomes a producer and editor of the news (citizen journalism)
This news value deals with how many people are affected and how seriously they are affected?
What is Impact?
What are the 5Ws + 1H?
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
This news value deals with information that the public needs to navigate the world.
What is usefulness?
Has the public given up its expectation that news should be independent and reliable, and that the news should be produced with the public's best interest in mind?
The public has not given up its expectation.
How can journalists remain loyal to their citizens?
Every single writer, editor, and publisher of the news needs to show allegiance to citizens; the public deserves the right to know real facts.
This news value deals with a story being intriguing or having an interesting spin to it. "It's out of the ordinary."
What is novelty?