Journalistic Principles
This type of journalism tasks reporters to deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.
What is investigative journalism?
This problem happens when using too many acronyms in a journalistic piece.
What is alphabet soup?
This color is Prof. Alex's favorite.
What is black?
This writing genre is an official statement delivered to news media directly from an organization.
What is a Press Release?
This "pearly" idea is the main through-line by which a journalistic story should be hung.
What is a thread?
This term refers to harming the reputation of someone in publications or writing.
What is libel?
While states like Florida are abbreviated as Fla. in AP Style when included in datelines and photo captions, these eight states are never abbreviated (name one).
What are Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah?
How do you spell Prof. Alex's last name?
What is S-I-W-I-E-C-K-I?
This public relations approach to journalism asks the public to take interest in community events through details and advertisement.
What is a local event promotion?
These six acronymed letters help to start a story's structure and answer key facts at the beginning of a journalistic piece.
What are the 5ws (Who, What, When, Where, Why) and H (How)?
These four alphabetical principles help shape foundational purpose in journalistic writing.
What are Accuracy, Brevity, Clarity, and Consistency?
This key punctuation was historically removed to save ink and paper and is still a rule in AP Style.
What is the Oxford comma?
This two-word phrase is one Prof. Alex has said repeatedly over the semester during workshops and said you would be tired of.
What is "What else?"
This database holds news articles and helps bypass paywalls.
What is NewsBank?
This term refers to supporting details that follows the first parargraph.
What is buttressing?
This approach to journalistic writing is intended to avoid stereotyping and unintentionally offensive language.
What is people-first/person-first language?
These first-liners establish the location of story when outside paper's hometown or general area of service as well as the Month, Day, and Year.
What are datelines?
This rule, named after a movie, asked students to not email after midnight.
What is the Gremlin Rule?
This type of person is able to characterize people well by collecting interpreting answers and pulling quotes, as in the statement: Great reporters are great [this].
What are listeners?
These forward types of structure to journalist pieces have two names and approaches, referred to colloquially as horses.
What is the direct (the workhorse) and delayed lead (the showhorse)?