Journalism Essentials
A reporter's specialized area of coverage based on geography or topic.
What is a news beat?
Denotes a particularly notable or important piece of news
Headline
What is the difference between their, there, and they're?
Their is possessive, there refers to somewhere, and they're combined they are.
If you are going to do your article on time you do not want to miss this.
What is deadline?
Journalism is the profession of writing for________.
What are newspapers and magazines, broadcast news (TV and radio), digital news (online publications)?
What are the 5 w's and h of Journalism?
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
The most important sentence that is written to generate interest.
What is a lede/lead?
Is this a good headline and why?
To cool for school
No, because you need to change the "to" to too and capitalize "cool" and "school"
Official communication or statement from an organization or company announcing or publicizing news, events, or other noteworthy information.
What is a press release?
A brief paragraph at the end of a press release that highlights a company and its core business information.
What is a boilerplate?
These are the 3 types of journalism.
What are Broadcast, Digital and Print?
What is the paragraph called that tells the reader why they should care about the article?
Nutgraf
This word refers to general things and are usually lowercased, while this word refers to specific things and are usually uppercased.
What is the difference between common and proper nouns?
This writing structure puts the most important information at the beginning of the article and the least important information at the end.
What is the Inverted Pyramid?
This is a brief, internal document used to communicate official business to one or more people within a company/organization.
What is a memo?
Reporting all relevant sides of an issue and presenting them equally.
What is fairness and balance in journalism?
Copying someone else's writing without credit or permission.
What is plagiarism?
What punctuation goes where?
When I was at the beach on Tuesday I saw a red fish
A comma after Tuesday and a period after fish
Before a writer begins writing any type of communication, that writer should know this.
What is the audience they are writing to.
These are the four types of memos.
What is an informative memo, request memo, confirmation memo, directive memo?
Examples of facts to include in your article.
What are statistics, quotes, and sensory information?
This term has two meanings in journalism.
The first means a line of newspaper type set above a headline.
The second means a revelation that concludes an article.
What is a kicker?
This sentence is missing what where?
“I feel like it was cheaper for me to buy a ticket to go to Australia to go to a DISSH brick-and-mortar and pick up my clothes than order it online” one woman said on TikTok of the $1,700 tariff bill she was saddled with from DHL on an order from an Australian fashion brand.
What is a comma after online within the closing quotation mark?
This type of journalism emphasizes the importance of public debate.
What are all types of journalism?
This analysis tool helps organizations with project planning.
What is a SWOT Analysis?