The conflict that is created when a writer allows personal interests (friendship, family, business connections, etc.) to influence the outcome of the story
What is a Conflict of Interest?
100
The efforts to persuade your audience by bending, distorting, or hiding the truth
What is Propaganda?
100
Governmental restriction or other repression of individual journalists and non-government media
What is Censorship?
100
A type or category of media product
What is Genre?
200
Video images shot specifically to be used over a reporter's words to illustrate the news event or story
What is B-Roll
200
A person or publication from which a journalist receives information or ideas
What is a Source?
200
A completed television news story on tape, which is edited before a news show goes on air and contains reporter's stand-ups, narration over images, and an out-cue for the anchor to start speaking at the end of the tape
What is a Package?
200
How knowledgeable and well qualified the source of a message seems
What is Authority?
200
credit given to who said what or the source of facts
What is Attribution?
300
A publication, usually issued weekly, that focuses on recent events and issues
What is a Newsmagazine?
300
Something a source does not want attributed in a news story
What is Off the Record?
300
Events or issues that are happening now
What is Timeliness?
300
A quality that makes a news event seem worth reporting
What is Newsworthiness?
300
The quality of being believable
What is Credibility?
400
Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine, newspaper, or book, where two pages meet.
What is the Gutter?
400
A portion of the population for which a product or message is designed
What is Target Audience?
400
A style of journalism in which a reporter takes sides in controversial issues and develops a point of view. It is the opposite of mainstream journalism, in which reporters are expected to be objective.
What is Advocacy Journalism?
400
Preference to one side of an issue. Either for it, or against it.
What is Bias?
400
A reporter's appearance in a TV news story; usually a head and shoulders shot which features the reporter talking into a microphone at the scene of the news event, often used as a transition, or at the beginning or ending
What is a Stand up?
500
General interest material, such as sports and travel stories, presented in news format
What is Feature News?
500
The characteristics of a particular audience
What are Demographics?
500
Stories that affect the audiences emotions
What is Human Interest?
500
Any overly obscure, technical, or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
What is Jargon?
500
The person who oversees the production of a television or radio program or movie. This person develops the overall message.