Feature Story
What is to evoke emotion
A line indicating who wrote the story
What is a Byline
The AP Style abbreviation for New York
What is N.Y.
A term that is used to determine whether a topic is interesting enough for people to want to or need to know about it.
What is Newsworthiness
the opening to your news story
What is the Lead
In Feature Writing this percentage of time is typically spent on research
What is 40%
Breaking news stories that contain timely and relevant information
What is hard news
In AP Style numbers one through nine
What is spelled out
The act of determining which stories are news worthy
What is GateKeeping
The W's
What is Who, what, where, when, and how
In Feature writing details do what?
What is capture a reader's attention and draw reader into story
A brief description underneath a photo that explains what is happening in the photo
What is a Caption
What is Go Inside quotation marks
How recent the news event is
What is Timeliness
After you’ve written the lead, you’ll include secondary important information
The name of this involves a shape and helps your organize information for your news story
What is an Inverted Pyramid
A continuation line that appears at the end of a story on a page that directs readers to the rest of the story on another page
What is a jumpline
AP style dates
What is are written as numerals
Stories that directly impact or affect your readers have significant news value
What is Consequence/Impact
The lead should
What is hook the readers and make them interested in the story
This sheet helps keep the journalist on tract
What is the Beat Sheet
The top of the newspaper that includes general information about the newspaper. It will typically contain the newspaper name, publisher, date, and more
What is the Masthead
When mentioning a person for the first time
What is use first and last name
Events closer to home are more newsworthy than events taking place far away
What is Proximity
Information found at the bottom of the Inverted Pyramid
What is Least Important information