Vocab/Terms
When a journalist injects their own feelings or opinions into a story, interfering with the story's facts.
What is bias?
Things that are happening as we speak and changing by the minute.
What is breaking news?
The amendment to the US Constitution that gives us the freedoms of speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
You all should of/should have remember more from last year.
What is would HAVE?
The country that has been fighting a war with Russia since 2022.
What is Ukraine?
When a journalist takes a statement from someone and uses it word-for-word in their story.
What is a quote?
Although news is supposed to be all about facts, writers can also write one of these to express their opinions instead.
What is an editorial/column?
The professional standards journalists are expected to follow to appropriately do their jobs.
What are ethics?
I drove my daughter around alot/a lot this summer.
What is a lot?
The wild animal that has been on the loose in Pleasant Hill for the past four days.
What is a water buffalo?
The words underneath a photo explaining what is happening in that photo.
What is a caption?
A story that focuses on one person or a group of people. They are usually more lighthearted than a news story.
What is a feature story?
The general act of ruining someone's reputation.
What is defamation?
The special effects/affects in Oppenheimer were great.
What is effects?
The host country of this summer's Olympics.
What is France?
The first sentence or sentences of a news story. It usually contains the story's most important information.
What is a lead (or lede)?
The name of journalism done via radio, TV, or the Internet.
What is broadcast journalism?
A type of defamation when someone knowingly publishes something false to try to ruin someone's reputation.
What is libel?
We are better than/then Ankeny in pretty much everything anymore.
What is than?
What a new state law is targeting for schools starting this year.
What is absenteeism?
The specific writing style journalists are expected to follow, named after a major news outlet.
What is Associated Press, or AP Style?
One piece of a radio or TV broadcast. They are usually a few minutes long.
What is a segment?
When a judge uses previous cases to help decide a new one.
What is legal precedent/case law?
I just want to lie/lay down and take a nap.
What is lie?
The name of the group that has been at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip since late in 2023.
What is Hamas?