WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR STORY TO HELP CLARIFY IT?(may include adding or cutting information)
What is Editing
100
Accepting money from a politician in exchange for a positive article.
What is gifts/bribes
100
The letter was mailed by Amy.
What is Amy mailed the letter.
100
What is the opening sentence or paragraph which precedes the main body of the article and gives the reader the main idea of the piece?
What is Lead
200
WHAT IS A STORY THAT EXPRESSES AN OPINION?
What is an Editorial
200
The people you are writing for.
What is Audience
200
"Timothy has kissed Jane." This is written in active voice.
What is False
200
A person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information.
What is a source.
300
WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THE NEWS STORY OR ARTICLE CALLED?
What is Headline
300
Ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events.
What is objectivity
300
The quiet cat secretly snuck up on the still and dirty rat and killed it using its paws. Active or passive?
What is Active
300
Story emphasizing the human or entertaining aspects of a
situation.
What is a Feature
400
WHAT ARE THE VISUALS USED IN NEWS WRITING CALLED?(EX. ARTWORKS, CHARTS, MAPS & STILL PHOTOS)
What are Graphics
400
The use of any part of another writing and passing it off as your own.
What is plagerism
400
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Politics, Business, or Crime Reports
400
Any descriptive or explanatory material under a picture.
What is a caption/cutline
500
A JOURNALISTIC TOOL THAT IS USED TO LIST FACTS IN DESCENDING ORDER OF IMPORTANCE?
What is Inverted Pyramid
500
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 paraphrasing
500
"The old man was murdered." Can be put into active voice form.
What is False. We do not know who is doing the action.