Terms
People
The Interview
Questioning
Leads
100
a sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographs, screaming headlines, frauds, and endless promotions of the newspapers themselves.
What is Yellow Journalism
100
Editor of the "Boston Transcript" in 1840 and a woman
Who is Cornelia Walter
100
These words should be used to invite someone to participate in an interview to help them feel more comfortable.
What is meeting or talk
100
This is the main person whose business it is to have the best and most reliable information about the topic.
What is a primary source
100
These elements belong to almost every news story.
What is five W's and the H.
200
The idea that once a forum (or place where ideas are exchanged) is created, the ideas expressed there cannot later be controlled
What is forum theory
200
A notable yellow journalist and publisher of the "New York Journal"
Who is William Randolph Hurst
200
These are the types of questions that you ask first in order to eliminate people who do not belong.
What is a filter question?
200
This is a question that is structured to allow the interview subject latitude in answering.
What is an open ended question
200
This is the beginning of a news story, often consisting of just one sentence.
What is the lead.
300
The main story of several stories about a topic on one page of a paper; the story that brings the idea into sharp focus.
What is mainbar
300
A female journalism who pretended to be medically ill and was committed to New York's Blackwell Island Asylum in order to expose the asylum's poor conditions.
Who is Nellie Bly
300
This is the term used when an interviewer will not use the information that the interviewee provides.
What is off the record.
300
This is a question built around special wording that should be avoided by good interviewers
What is -est question
300
This kind of lead gives little information and is generally to be avoided.
What is question lead.
400
An all purpose question usable in any situation-- for example, "What are your immediate ad long-term goals?"
What is stock question
400
Founded the "New York Sun," filled it with news, and sold it for only a penny.
Who is Benjamin Day
400
This is how you reassure your interviewee that you are supportive and attentive.
What is smile, eye contact, and follow up questions.
400
This is an all-purpose question usable in any situation
What is a stock question
400
This lead is unclear and should be avoided.
What is quote lead.
500
A style of newswriting in which the main facts apepar at the top of the article (the lead) and less-significant facts follow until the end, where the facts may be dispensable. This gives the reader the essential facts first and permits expansion or contraction in editing and page layout.
What is inverted pyramid
500
publisher of the "New York World" faced feirce competition to attract huge audiences but eventually founded the Columbia School of Journalism and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes
Who is Joseph Pulitzer
500
When taking notes these are the types of things that you do not write down.
What is words like "like" and "ya know"
500
This is a technique for writing an interview story in which the reporter's exact questions are reported, followed by the sources exact answers.
What is Q and A.
500
Provides the breifest possible summary of major facts of a story in the first sentence.
What is summary lead.