News Types
News about your community or city.
What is Local News?
Reads the news on camera during a broadcast.
Who are Anchors?
Fixing grammar and punctuation is this kind of editing.
What is Micro Editing?
Spoke the news aloud in towns before papers.
Who were Town Criers?
The law that protects freedom of the press.
What is the First Amendment?
One of the first hard-hitting female journalists.
Who was Nellie Bly?
An image or video used to support a story.
What is Footage?
News that affects the entire country.
What is National News?
Predicts and reports on the weather.
Who are Meteorologists?
Editing for structure, clarity, and big-picture content.
What is Macro Editing?
This country printed the first newspapers.
What is Belgium or China?
Publishing false info that hurts someone’s reputation.
What is Libel?
One of the first female African-American journalists.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The feeling or attitude while presenting a story.
What is Tone?
News from around the globe.
What is World News?
Researches and tells stories on camera usually off-site.
Who are Reporters?
Using someone else's work without giving credit.
What is Plagiarism?
Early form of showing short videos of news in movie theaters.
What are Newsreels?
Taking back a published mistake.
What is a Retraction?
First African-American news anchor.
Who is Max Robinson?
A segment of the show organized by content or timing.
What is a News Block?
When a story spreads rapidly online.
What is Going Viral?
Records and edits video footage for stories.
Who are Videographers?
Making up fake news or sources.
What is Fabrication?
The first major news broadcast hoax.
What is the War of the Worlds Broadcast?
The idea of reporting fairly and without bias.
What is Objectivity?
The first African-American White House correspondent and a reporter for 60 Minutes.
Who was Ed Bradley?
The name of the complete, pre-recorded news story that includes video, narration, and interviews.
What is a Package?
A fun or feel-good story at the end of a newscast.
What is a Kicker?
Tells a story over video footage.
What is a Voiceover?
Making something sound more dramatic than it is.
What is Sensationalizing?
Where did people mostly get their news in the 1400s?
What is Word of Mouth?
Court case that ruled in favor of press freedom during war.
What is the Pentagon Papers Case?
Current female White House correspondent for PBS and investigative journalist.
Who is Yamiche Alcindor?
Live broadcast to answer questions from the anchor or provide additional information about the story.
What is a Donut?