Newsworthiness
The idea that something happening close by is going to be more newsworthy.
What is proximity?
The beginning of a journalism story that grabs the readers' attention.
What is the lead?
The type of news that includes crime, war, politics, international affairs, economics, science, and most time-sensitive news.
What is hard news?
Taking a photograph from a different/unusual perspective.
What is a varying angle?
This is a sentence or paragraph that provides descriptive information about a photograph.
What is a caption or cutline?
The idea that either something just happened or is about to happen that makes it newsworthy.
What is timeliness?
The paragraph that states the "kernel" or essential theme of the story. This is what the story is really about.
What is the nutgraph?
The phrase that identifies the source of a fact, opinion or quote in a story.
What is attribution?
What is the rule of thirds?
The verb tense that the first sentence of a caption should be in.
What is present tense?
What is conflict and controversy?
What journalists call the ending of a story.
What is the kicker?
The structure of a news story, which starts with the most important information (5 Ws), followed by supporting details and background information.
What is the inverted pyramid?
When only the subject is in focus but everything else is blurry.
What is shallow depth of field?
The type of verbs you should use to make the caption lively and interesting.
What are active verbs?
The idea that if it is news that is something that affects the reader, they will care more about it. It pertains to them.
What is relevance?
The type of feature story is a biographical portrait of someone who is of interest to the readers in some way.
What is a profile?
What is who, what, where, when, why and how?
When you capture a great look on someone's face.
What is reaction?
The type of name the writer should use when identifying someone in a caption.
Did something heartwarming or unusual happen to a regular person? That's considered this type of news.
What is human interest?
Feature stories are considered this type of news.
What is soft?
The main body of journalism stories should alternate between these two things.
What are facts and quotes?
What is pattern and repetition?
Good photo captions describe what is happening in the photo but also do this.
What is give more information (backstory or what is coming up)?