This is the basic form of most news stories.
What is inverted pyramid form?
The first amendment covers these five freedoms.
What are the freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly, the right to petition the government and freedom of the press?
Journalists who report on the proceedings, decisions and actions of government are fulfilling this media function.
What is the political watchdog function?
The AP in "AP Style" stands for this non-profit news agency.
What is the Associated Press?
Yellow Journalism was partly to blame for the U.S.'s involvement in this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
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?
Sports scores and weather reports are examples of this media function.
What is the record-keeping function?
These are known as the"Five Ws".
What are who, what, where, when and why?
This is the first publisher charged with libel in the Colonies for speaking out against a politician.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
Journalistic stories should be written in this voice to assure straightforward, concise delivery of information.
What is active voice?
This is a type of defamation, expressed in print.
What is libel?
This function of the news media gets people talking about the frivolous and serious topics that guides our decision-making and collective action.
What is the social function of media?
In AP style, the professional titles of sources are always capitalized. True or false?
What is false?
This paper, started in 1982, was teasingly nicknamed McPaper for its standardized look and easily-digestible coverage.
What is USA Today?
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?
News stories about construction in your town or improvements to your school building fulfill this news value.
What is proximity?
In AP Style, all numbers under ten should be presented in this form (with a few exceptions).
What is in "word" or "written" form?
This is the invention that gave rise to the wire news services.
What is the Morse Code or the telegraph?
This type of article takes a more in-depth look at a specific event, subject or person.
What is a feature story?
The First Amendment's protections might be interpreted differently when exercised in a school environment. The three areas that the Student Press Law Center cite as areas up to the discretion of administration and staff include these.
What are obscene material, libelous material and material that might cause a disruption of school activities?
Stories of success and failures in the face of adversity highlight this news value.
What is human interest?
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?
This is the publisher that inspired the fictional film Citizen Kane.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?