This has to do with location. If the event is close by it will have a greater impact on your readers.
What is proximity?
100
The 5 W’s and an H
What are who, what, when, where, why, how?
100
Media Glut
What is the fact that audiences are overwhelmed by the amount of media and information they have offered to them?
100
The stage of the writing process where the writer should ponder the information he/she has gathered and begin
prioritizing what information is most important
What is Stage 2: Thinking and Planning
100
If a situation makes you angry, sad, happy or overjoyed, it contains this news value.
What is human interest?
200
This has to do with when the event happened. If it’s
Happening now, it will have more impact on your
audience.
What is timeliness?
200
The first paragraph in a story that introduces the 5W’s and an H OR grabs the reader’s attention creatively.
What is a lead or lede?
200
Three other Roadblocks to reaching today’s audiences other than Media Glut
What are
Diversity of audiences
Taxing Lifestyles
Unfriendly Messages
200
The stage of the writing process where the writer should
focus on perfection of conventions and word choice
What is Stage 7: Polishing?
200
This news value is about events that change people’s lives.
Although the event itself might involve only a few people,
the consequences may be wide-ranging.
What is impact?
300
This has to do with how well-known the people in your
story are.
What is prominence?
300
Specificity
What is providing specific details to make a story clear
and complete in a summary lead?
300
The current fate of traditional newspapers
What is that they have been abandoned and moved online?
300
The stage of the writing process where the writer should
begin writing in a conversational way, as though he/she is
speaking to a friend
What is Stage Four: Drafting the Message?
300
The third stage of the writing process
What is Stage Three: Listing?
400
Readers have an interest in disagreements, fights, and
rivalries. They also like to read about potential solutions
to these problems.
What is conflict?
400
Brevity
What is when the writer delivers information concisely and avoids rambling and redundancy.
400
The question must a writer ask himself in order to identify his/her audience
What is Who Cares?
400
The stage of the writing process which is often the most
time-consuming
What is Stage Five: Rewriting?
400
Disadvantaged of the Inverted Pyramid (Give 2 of the 4)
What is
1. This style doesn’t always encourage readers to continue to the end of a story because the important elements come first.
2. It’s backward; you give away the “punchline” at the top.
3. Can be somewhat formulaic; it gives more value to substance rather than style.
4. There’s less allowance for creativity.
500
If something is unusual, people want to know what
and why it happened.
What is novelty?
500
Advantages of the inverted pyramid (Give 3 of the 7)
What are
1. Offers quick reading
2. Features less repetition
3. Offers easier editing (easier to cut and paste)
4. Offers faster headline preparation
5. Easier to add to a story (as well as cut it)
6. Allows for faster writing of a story (can do it in your head, from a phone booth even)
7. Offers a quick organizing tool
500
Defintion of an unfriendly message
What is when the message is too boring, taxing, or
time consuming to read. Audiences will ignore
it in favor of a clearer, more concise message
500
The stage in which the writer will read his/her work aloud
or send it to someone else to edit
What is Stage Six: Sharing?
500
The difference between active and passive
voice. Provide an example of both.
What is
Active voice has the subject performing the action. Passive voice has the subject receiving the action.
Ex. He gave the milk to me. (active)
Ex: The milk was given to me by him. (passive)