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Journalism Basics
The Interview
Types of Articles
Ethics
Cuts & Heads
100
The occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business.
What is a Journalist or Journalism?
100
When you use a source's exact words.
What is a direct quote?
100
This article gives a notice of death.
What is an obituary?
100
The use of any part of another's writings and passing it off as your own.
What is plagiarism?
100
Every headline needs a subject and this: __________ __________.
What is an active verb?
200
Overused, overworked, trite expressions (busy bee, blushing bride) (Mrs. Salvevold despises these).
What is a cliché?
200
You should have a list of these ready before you start.
What are questions?
200
This type of article comments on things like books, movies or restaurants.
What is a review?
200
A damaging false statement against another person or institution.
What is slander?
200
Headlines should be written in this tense.
What is present tense?
300
This tells who the writer of the article is.
What is a byline?
300
Avoid these types of questions.
What are yes or no?
300
A story that focuses more on entertaining than simply informing the audience.
What is a feature story?
300
Publication of a false statement that seriously harms another's reputation.
What is libel?
300
The mini, creative description that precedes your cutline is called this.
What is a catchline?
400
Style where the most important information is placed in the beginning of the article and the less important information is at the end.
What is the inverted pyramid?
400
This type of interview is better than a phone interview.
What is face-to-face?
400
A relatively short article offering the opinion of the newspaper, journalist or editor.
What is an editorial?
400
This protects several basic liberties such as freedom of speech, religion, press, etc.
What is The First Amendment?
400
The order in which the names of a group picture should be written.
What is top to bottom and left to right?
500
The five W's and H.
What is who, what, when, where, why and how?
500
Take a lot of these during the interview.
What are notes?
500
It's the second-most read topic in a newspaper behind "general news."
What is sports or a sports story?
500
The right of publishing books, pamphlets, newspapers or periodicals without restraint or censorship.
What is Freedom of the Press?
500
Proper term for describing something from the past in present terms.
What is historical present?