Short personal stories about an event or occurance.
What is anecdotes?
100
Interview done over the phone
What is phoners?
100
A reporter goes to the source's home or place of business.
What is in-person interview?
200
The time a story is due.
What is a deadline?
200
Questions that allow the subject to talk
What is open-ended questions?
200
A story that has all the journalistic elements of a news story but is written with a beginning, middle, and end like a short story.
What is feature?
200
You don't make a long speech during this interview.
What is in-person interview?
300
People who can give you the most thorough or best information because they are the investigators, the witnesses or the people who are affected by the event.
What is primary sources?
300
People who have information relevant to the story but are not officials.
What is secondary source?
300
The reporter asks question and then the source answer.
What is Q-and-A format?
300
An interview that is done over the internet.
What is an email interview?
400
One may use information but must not attribute it to the source.
What is on background?
400
People who ask that their names not be used and sometimes that the information they give reporters not to be used.
What is unnamed sources?
400
Reporters that read portions of the story.
What is read-back?
400
Also known as "phoners".
What is a telephone interview?
500
The information that one is given by the source is not written down in a notebook or recorded.
What is off the record?
500
Those who want to remain anonymous.
What is confidential sources?
500
Repeat or copy the exact words spoken or written by the source.