Writing
Organizing information in into a shape that shows the order of importance before writing.
What is the inverted pyramid?
Who?
Who are the Tampa Bay Rays?
A word used to describe an action or occurrence.
What is a verb?
The first sentence in a news story.
What is a lede/lead?
Copy used under or with a photograph. It identifies what or who is in the picture and where it is taken. (Also called cutline)
What is a caption?
A relatively short, usually unsigned column offering the opinion of the newspaper on a variety of topics.
What is an editorial?
What?
What is build the team wants to build a new stadium?
A word that names a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
A reporter with very little experience.
What is a cub reporter?
A brief description of the contents of a news story printed in larger type, usually above the story.
What is a headline.
The first stage in the writing process.
What is pre-writing?
Where?
Where is a few blocks away from our campus?
Punctuation that shows excitement.
What is an exclamation point?
When a source tells a reporter something, but they don't want you to publish it.
What is "off the record"?
The process of verifying the information stated in an article.
What is fact-checking?
To put a speaker's words into the reporter's own words without changing the meaning or inserting opinion. Used to clarify lengthy, fuzzy or complicated thoughts. They do not have to be used in quotation marks.
What is paraphrase?
When?
When is they start next year and finish in 2028.
This word descries (modifies) a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
Newsworthy events can happen at any moment
What is breaking news?
A digital audio file, usually produced as part of a series, publicly available for download and listening.
What is a podcast?
The last stage of the writing process.
What is publishing?
Why?
What are various reasons? Their lease expired. Outdated stadium.
A word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase, such as him, her or them.
What is pronoun?
Refers to the written text and images that make up an article.
What is "copy"?
Method of composing photographs in which the field of vision is divided into thirds horizontally and vertically and the image placed at the intersection of any two lines.
What is rule of thirds?