Who is a Journalist
Multimedia Journalist
What Convergence Means
Vocabulary
Wild Card
100
reporters, editors, photographers, producers and camera crews who sift through the many events of a day to tell you what is important or interesting in your community and the world.
What is a Journalist?
100
A Web story is some combination of the written word, photographs, video clips, audio clips, graphics and an interactive element, such as a quiz or a poll.
What is multimedia journalism?
100
The merging of a news organization’s operations-some combination of print, Web and broadcast-is called convergence, and it often requires a lot of collaboration.
What is convergence?
100
The area were a journalist works.
What is a desk?
100
Editors assign and approve the content. Reporters gather information for stories by researching, observing and interviewing.
What is the difference between a reporter and an editor?
200
They do not work for a particular news outlet and they may cover stories for any news outlet that wants to hire them.
What is a freelance journalist?
200
They carry, in a backpack, all the technical tools needed to produce the multiple elements of the story.
What is a backpack journalist?
200
Journalists in traditional print and broadcast organizations usually call their base of operations this.
What is a newsroom?
200
When you put somthing on a social media site.
What is a post?
200
The editors and reporters who continue to cover news of the day, as well as plan feature and other stories for all their platforms.
What are content producers.
300
They gather information for stories by researching, observing and interviewing. They write most of the content that is assigned to them by editors. They also sometimes present their own material to be approved by their editor.
What is a correspondent?
300
Someone who may be called a producer, if part of a website team, who takes charge of a multimedia story, particularly when it is a breaking news story.
What is an editor?
300
the center of today's operations replacing news room.
What is an information center?
300
Journalist who use multiple resources in making a story.
What is a multimedia journalist?
300
These people may conduct interviews, record videos or take photographs, write the story, write a script for the video, and post it all to a website.
What is the responsibility of a multimedia journalist?
400
They work with editors and reporters to produce illustrations, charts, graphs, maps or other material that will help tell a story.
What is an artist?
400
A story witch includes text, photographs, videos and audios.
What is a multimedia story?
400
journalism in which the audience participates.
What is citizen journalism?
400
a camera that catches moving images insteed of still photos.
What is a video camera?
400
Websites, blogs, social media, email, and text messaging.
What are ways that highschool students communicate?
500
They edit the text of a story. They check the facts and correct errors in spelling and grammar before publication. They also write headlines and photo captions.
What is a copy editor?
500
Someone the editor may send to gather important information from authorities and conduct some interviews.
What is a print reporter?
500
Journalism conducted on the internet.
What is online journalism?
500
Someone who determines, with the top editors, where content will be placed on printed pages or or how it will be arranged on websites.
What is a designer?
500
Natural curiosity, because you are a writer, you like the challenge of taking facts, you like interviews and observations and weaving them into interesting takes that help others understand the world, or at least a small part of it, if you are a photographer who likes to tell the story through the lens of a camera, still or video, or in the business of storytelling.
What are the reasons why I should become a journalist?