St. Peters Police Officer Melissa Doss gave a press conference about an assault that happened with this weapon.
What is a dead Chihuahua puppy?
100
In direct quotes, the source's exact words appear between this punctuation.
What are quotation marks?
100
For direct quotations of multiple sentences, always put the attribution after this sentence.
What is the first sentence?
100
Young journalists often make the mistake of telling rather than doing this in their writing.
What is showing?
100
In general, leads should not be longer than this.
What is 30 words?
200
Chief Mike Force and Asst. Chief Chris DiGiuseppi work for this St. Charles County police department.
What is Lake Saint Louis?
200
You should never use a quote to express this.
What is a fact?
200
Use this punctuation to indicate a quote within a quote
What is a single quotation?
200
Good writing appeals to one or more of these.
What are the five senses?
200
This type of lead is the most traditional for news stories.
What is a summary lead?
300
Force and DiGiuseppi have published two of a three-part science-fiction trilogy. This is the name of the first book.
What is the Light Bringer?
300
Selecting key words from a direct quote to use within an indirect quote is called this.
What is a partial quote?
300
In a direct quotation, if a question mark relates to the sentence and not the quote -- for instance, Who said “Hasta la vista, baby”? -- place the question mark here.
What is outside the quotation marks?
300
Unless you are writing an editorial or review, the stories you write are not about you or your opinion. Therefore, it's best to write your stories in this.
What is the third person?
300
Journalists intentionally misspell the lead of a story as lede to avoid confusion with this.
What is the lead used in printing presses?
400
Post-Dispatch reporter Valerie Schremp-Hahn covered this story extensively last year.
What is the Michael Brown shooting and protests?
400
When attributing a quote in a news story, you would almost always use this verb.
What is said?
400
The best quotes are the ones that do this.
What is humanize a story or show emotion?
400
Writers should always try to use this voice, which means the subject is doing the action.
What is active voice?
400
This type of lead makes readers feel the drama of the situation.
What is a storytelling lead?
500
Officer Melissa Doss is the PIO for the police department, which stands for this.
What is Public Information Officer?
500
Each time you begin a new quote you should also begin one of these.
What is a new paragraph?
500
When you change the words of a quote it’s called this.
What is misquoting?
500
These are known as the ABCs of journalism.
What is accuracy, brevity and clarity?
500
When you need to attribute the information in the lead to someone, put it here.