News Story
The type of article that covers current events and reports the facts of the case accurately and precisely
What is a News Story?
A non-profit cooperative that has written a guide to help maintain the standards of writing for journalists.
What is the Associated Press?
The three parts of a news story.
What is the lead, body, and end?
A quote, written in quotation marks, that may not be changed or taken out of context.
What is a direct quote?
Another name for the deck in an article.
What is a subhead?
The approximate word limit in a lead sentence.
What is 30?
Taking someone else's work without giving credit
What is plagiarism?
The tense in which the verbs are written in a Headline.
What is the present tense?
The only appropriate excuse for changing a direct quote.
What is correcting grammar to avoid embarrassment?
2 things included in an online article to help keep the readers interested.
What are pictures and graphs?
The order in which information flows in a news article.
What is the order of importance?
A great way to avoid plagiarism, according to the textbook.
What is writing an outline, putting away your research while writing, and pulling it back out later to fact-check?
The type of words omitted from a headline.
Peripheral words (Ex: a, is, etc.)
The word used in attributions after a quote, but before the name of the source. (ex: "It was a wonderful experience," _____ Christopher Jones, Director of Communications.
What is said?
3 ways an online article is written in order to allow readers to skim an article while still picking up the gist of the story.
What are bullets, headers, and short paragraphs?
The four of the 5 W's & H that should be included at the very beginning of the article.
What is the who, what, where, and when?
Name of the specific punctuation that is commonly used in a series, but is omitted in AP Style writing.
What is the Oxford comma?
A short summary that leads into the story.
What is the deck
The appropriate way to cite your source in the first reference to that person in your article.
What is using their first and last name and including something about them, such as their occupation?
1 way an online article allows readers to learn more about the subject the article is written on.
What are links included within the body and at the end of the article?
The point of view in which news stories are written.
What is 3rd person?
What is spelling out numbers 1-9, and using numerals for numbers 10 and up?
The part of the story in which a journalist should include an indirect quote, details statistics, and direct quotes within their article.
What is the body of the article?
The appropriate way to attribute a quote that is longer than one sentence.
What is by splitting the long quote and putting the attribution after the first sentence?
A reasonable exception for including a direct quote in the lead.
What is a very powerful quote given by a well-known person or someone important to the story?