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Leads
Writing
Legal Terms
Story types
Odds and Ends
100
This lead places readers in the middle of the action.
What is a narrative lead?
100
Common types of these include the words however, meanwhile, nevertheless, thus, and so forth.
What is a transition?
100
This prevents other people from copying or selling your work.
What is copyright?
100
This is reporting that requires research to uncover misconduct or corruption.
What is investigative journalism?
100
This is the most prestigious award in journalism.
What is a Pulitzer Prize?
200
This lead withholds someone's or something's name, but it will appear later in the story.
What is a delayed identification lead?
200
These are questions designed to steer an interviewee in a particular direction.
What is a leading question?
200
This law requires that federal agencies make most of their records available to the public.
What is the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA?
200
This is a feature story that has some drama or emotional impact.
What is a human interest story?
200
This is how a news outlet or reporter is perceived by the public.
What is credibility?
300
This involves using a humorous or dramatic incident to begin a story
What is an anecdotal lead?
300
If you're injecting your opinion into a story unnecessarily, you're doing this.
What is editorializing?
300
These laws mean that journalists can protect the identity of their sources if asked by a court to reveal them.
What are shield laws?
300
You usually give facts about someone's life after they died in this story
What is an obituary?
300
This is another word for a scoop.
What is exclusive?
400
This lead summarizes the most significant of the five Ws.
What is a summary lead?
400
This is a section of a story that's written ahead of time.
What is B copy?
400
You need to be a public figure to prove this in libel cases.
What is actual malice?
400
To do this story, you have to use interviews and observations to "paint a picture."
What is a profile?
400
This term means your focus or slant of a story you're writing.
What is an angle?
500
This isn't exactly a lead, but it's a way to organize your lead with an explanatory paragraph that tells the readers why they should care.
What is a nut graf?
500
A clever way to end a story.
What is a kicker?
500
This gives journalists the right to print their opinions about public figures or entertainers.
What is fair comment and criticism?
500
A story about the most popular bracelets to wear would be this type of story.
What is a trend story?
500
Lines of type, usually bolded, that divide text into smaller sections.
What are subheads?