Law & Order: Schneps Media Unit
Here’s an easy one for the crime reporters: This is the meaning of the initials DCPI.
What is Deputy Commissioner of Public Information?
Your humble Jeopardy! host started his day job with this Queens newsweekly 20 years ago; the rest is history
GIDDIER TWOSOME
What is RIDGEWOOD TIMES?
Using ChatGPT, two of our editors created an effective way toward creating these terms used to help identify each story online.
What are tags?
Only uses these numerical terms to describe police precincts or street names, such as the 104th Precinct or 36th Avenue.
What are ordinals?
Top honors for Spot News photos went to amNY Breaking News Editor Dean Moses and this freelance photographer popular citywide.
Who is Lloyd Mitchell?
Remember to use this adverb to describe the accused's actions when writing a story about a suspect being charged.
What is allegedly?
This New York Family publication is the only Schneps publication to cross the Verrazzano Bridge
DISTANT LEANS ENTRAP
What is STATEN ISLAND PARENT?
This AI widget, installed on our websites this fall, helps editors and reporters alike in pointing out errors and suggesting better, stronger ways to write a sentence.
What is Grammarly?
You should know by now that this should be included in the URL, headline, lede paragraph and alt text to help boost your SEO score
What is the focus keyword?
First place for Best News Feature series were shared by reporters from these two websites for their tales of migrant survival.
What are QNS.com/QueensPost.com and amNY.com?
This term describes the event in which an arrested individual is escorted by cops before a group of reporters.
What is a perp walk?
With issues from the Hamptons, to NYC, to Palm Beach, Taylor Vescey is editor of this sprawling real estate magazine
BED HEIGHTEN SHED
What is BEHIND THE HEDGES?
Want to transcribe without typing? This site, named for a cute water mammal, helps you obtain an audio transcript from a recording in mere minutes or less.
What is Otter.ai?
This year, we decided to garnish our websites with this software that better tracks not only our pageviews but also where our traffic is coming from.
What is Parse.ly?
Dan’s Papers won for Best Distinguished Coverage of Diversity for its feature stories and columns on this Native American group.
Who are the Shinnecock Nation?
Upon request, district attorneys can provide you with a copy of an indictment or this two-word document which spells out the charges and the actions which took place.
What is a criminal complaint?
This weekly newspaper in Queens celebrated its 90th anniversary issue this year
AMITY BESIDES
What is the BAYSIDE TIMES?
From photo to video editing, this site offers a quick, easy and economical way to make your story art look better.
What is Canva?
Among these “Seven Paths to a Story” reviewed in June, this method allows you to go somewhere and show the reader something interesting.
What is "descriptive"?
Schneps Media led all NY media groups in the NYPA Awards with this number of points, equal to a major roadway on Staten Island.
What is 440?
This two-word phrase describes information provided by a source like the NYPD that’s not publicly disclosed, but also not entirely off-the-record.
What is "on background"?
This company with papers in Nassau County became part of the Schneps Media family this year, and got a tabula rasa.
LABEL TANKS
What is BLANK SLATE?
Video editors love using this tool to help quickly create compelling, short movies from footage taken out in the field.
What is CapCut?
When it comes to story style, always use this writing voice to describe events without making them sound dated or awkward.
What is the active voice?
The third time was indeed the charm for this Brooklyn reporting veteran who won first prize in NYPA’s Writer of the Year award.
Who is Kirstyn Brendlen?