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What is News
The Lede
Interviewing
Building on the Lede
Extra Stuff I Oughta Know
100
This is a journalist's job
What is to inform, interest, educate, amuse or amaze your audience.
100
This is the type of lede we use.
What is the AP or Associated Press?
100
When does an interview take place?
When is anytime a reporter asks a question?
100
This is any paragraph that is not the lede or a quote.
What is a transition?
100
Media writing uses this format.
What is the inverted pyramid?
200
The newness of facts
What is timliness?
200
What immediately follows the lede?
What is a back-up quote?
200
Whom should you ask for an interview?
Who is the person who is paid to know what you want to find out?
200
This is a story separate from but on the same subject as another on same page.
What is a sidebar?
200
The importance of event
What is consequence?
300
The nearness of an event to your given publication
What is proximity?
300
What does the back-up quote do?
What is directly support the lede?
300
Asking open-ended questions will elicit these.
What are quotable responses?
300
A journalist should avoid this type of language.
What is offensive?
300
Why is the inverted pyramid used to tell stories in journalism
What is it tells a story not from the beginning but from the most important details? (or something like this. Highly subjective.)
400
The newsworthiness of an individual
What is prominence?
400
This is how long a lede is.
What is one to two sentences?
400
The three types of questions you should not ask are:
What is hostile, leading and loaded?
400
This type of word is never allowed into a news story - except for one small exception.
What is a racial slur?
400
This is a different style of writing where the reader is quickly taken to the point of greatest tension.
What is Christmas tree?
500
This type of story causes the reader(s) to laugh, cry and feel emotion.
What is human interest?
500
What is the purpose of the lede?
What is to quickly inform the reader about the story? (or something close to that. My discretion.)
500
This is why you wait a few seconds before asking your next question.
What is to make the interview subject uncomfortable with the silence so he/she fills the space with more information. (or some such. Very subjective)
500
What is the stylebook used by journalists?
What is the AP Manual of Style?
500
What does a headline do?
What is lure the reader into a story?