Vocabulary 1
person, document, or record that provides information for a story
What is Verification?
Timely information about recent events that are of public interest.
What is news?
Restating information from a source in the reporter's own words.
What is Paraphrase?
Words of phrases that connect ideas smoothly between paragraphs.
What is a transition?
A line indicating who wrote the story.
What is a Byline?
Ensuring information reported is correct and verified.
What is Accuracy?
What is objectivity?
A paragraph that explains the main idea or "so what?" of the story.
What is Nut Graph?
Identifying the source of information or a quote.
What is attribution?
The top of the newspaper that include general information about the newspaper.
What is a masthead?
Standards and principles guiding moral decision-making in journalism.
What is Ethics?
What is fairness?
A lead that answers the key questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how.
What is Summary Lead?
Information that benefits society and helps citizens make informed decisions.
What is public interest?
Text formatted in a large type setting that summarizes that story and grabs the readers' attention.
What is a Headline?
The process of confirming the truth and accuracy of information.
What is Verification?
A person, document, or record that provides information.
What is a source?
Exact words from a source used in a story.
The level of trustworthiness a news source has with its audience.
What is credibility?
A line of text that states where the story was physically written.
What is a Dateline?
assessing, gathering, creating, and presenting news and information to the public
What is Journalism?
Placing the most important facts first, followed by supporting details.
What is the inverted pyramid?
The opening sentence or paragraph of a news story that summarizes its most important parts.
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?
A brief description underneath a photo that explains what is happening in the photo.
What is a caption?