Newspaper Know-How
This is the basic form of most news stories.
What is inverted pyramid form?
The first amendment covers these three freedoms.
What are the freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly.
"Deep Throat" was the codename for a source used by this reporting team during the Watergate scandal.
Who are Woodward and Bernstein?
The AP in "AP Style" stands for this non-profit news agency.
What is the Associated Press?
"In Slouching Towards Bethlehem," Joan Didion details the confusing and chaotic lives of young people living as hippies in this city.
What is San Francisco?
This is the introductory paragraph of a journalism article.
What is a lede (lead)?
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes uses the term "free trade of ideas" when writing his dissenting opinion on anti-draft and anti-weapon literature during this war.
What is World War I?
Katherine Graham was an underestimated socialite when she took over and re-invigorated this newspaper.
What is The Washington Post?
These are known as the"Five Ws".
What are who, what, where, when and why?
Inmates are currently holding a hunger strike at this New York City jail, highlighted in a New York Times feature series.
What is Rikers Island?
This is the title of a news article.
What is a headline?
This is a type of defamation, expressed in print.
What is libel?
The Defense Department report on this war was the cause of further social outcry and a landmark First Amendment case.
What is the Vietnam War?
In AP style, the line bearing the author's name is known by this practical term.
What is a byline?
The New York Times detailed the death row case of Nathaniel Woods, an inmate executed in this state for a murder he did not commit.
What is Alabama?
This is a type of opinion writing that appears in a specific section of a newspaper.
What is an editorial (or opinion-editorial)?
This is a type of defamation, usually made orally.
What is slander?
In the movie, The Post, Style Editor Meg Greenfield has been banned from covering this White House event.
What is Nixon's daughter's (Tricia Nixon's) wedding?
In AP Style, all numbers under ten should be presented in this form (with a few exceptions).
What is in "word" or "written" form?
William S. Burroughs was not a sports reporter, but he found himself covering the Kentucky Derby in 1970 when this group planned a protest at the event.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This type of article takes a more in-depth look at a specific event, subject or person.
What is a feature story?
In this case, nicknamed for the government agency that wrote the report, the Supreme Court found a heavy presumption against the government's right to prior restraint.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
In the movie, The Post, Katherine Graham was up against two obstacles at the same time - the Nixon administration and an IPO, an acronym for this stock market term.
What is an initial public offering?
In MLA style, identifying the source of a quote or direct information is known as citation; in AP style it is known as this.
What is attribution?
"Who Gets to Be an Influencer" is about a group a Black, young creators, vying to be social media stars while living at the Collab Crib in this city.
What is Atlanta?