This ties information later in the story back to information early in the story.
What is a tieback?
100
This is a journalist's good sense in determining what should be included in a story.
What is news judgment?
100
There are this many parts to an AP lede.
What is five?
100
This is the second most important paragraph in the story. It adds credibility by supporting information in the lede while in the voice of an expert.
What is the back-up quote?
200
This headline has an introductory paragraph which may run several lines long and offer enticing facts which leads the reader naturally to the primary headline.
What is a wicket headline.
200
This is how many elements of news there are.
What is 6?
200
This is the news finding method of finding at least one person or group that cares about a story to find what is and is not news.
What is the who cares method?
200
This contains the primary message the story wants to convey.
What is the news thrust?
200
This is what you need to be a good writer.
What is being comfortable with words, knowing a good sentence from a bad sentence, applying the fundamentals of grammar, spelling and punctuation and lots of reading.
300
This headline has a primary headline followed by the sub headline which is also the lede paragraph.
What is a read-out headline?
300
This kind of story stirs emotions?
What is human interest?
300
This relates to the newness of facts.
What is timeliness?
300
This is the person or entity that is doing or saying something that is the news.
What is attribution?
300
This is what writing is not.
What is an inherent talent
400
This headline uses a phrase to catch the reader's attention and leads them to a single word that capture's the story's primary topic. That single word is the primary headline.
What is a read-in headline?
400
This is a graphic representation of how a journalist is supposed to write a story - with the most important, least detailed information at the top.
What is the inverted pyramid?
400
This is the nearness of a given event to your place of publication.
What is proximity?
400
This is when something did or will happen.
What is the time element?
400
This is what transitions do.
What is move the story forward or prepare the reader for new information?
500
Flush and centered typesetting is not on the page, but relates to textual placement here.
What is on the portion of the page alloted to that story?
500
This is another name for an AP lede.
What is a summary lede?
500
This is two or more parties with competing goals.
What is conflict?
500
This is the action pivot of the entire lede paragraph. Without this, the news just does not happen.
What is the verb?
500
This is a story related to but kept seperate from another on the same subject.