An element of news that refers to the geographic nearness of a given event to your place of publication or your readers
What is Proximity
100
A person who writes articles or does the work on any subject assigned as the editor sees fit
What is General Assignment Reporter
100
An interview set up and planned in advance
What is formal interview
100
An early American newspapers that aligned themselves with one political party.
What is Partisan press
200
The ability to inspire belief and trust
What is Credibility
200
An element of news that refers to how well-known an individual is in the community, school, nation, or world
What is Prominence
200
A chronological list of upcoming events that might be worth covering; a long-range calendar of events and ideas
What is Future Book
200
An agreement reached, before an interview begins, that the interviewer will not print the information that the interviewee provides
What is Off the record
200
Newspapers, from the mid-19th century, that were filled with news and read by a mass audience, included advertising, and sold for a penny
What is Penny Press
300
The taking and using as one's own the writings or inventions of another person
What is Plagiarism
300
The knowledge and instinct a reporter calls on to determine whether an event is news
What is new Judgment
300
The person who has overall responsibility for a news operation or publications; also called editor-in-chief
What is Managing Editor
300
An all-purpose question usable in any situation____ For example What are your immediate and long-term goals?
What is Stock Question
300
A sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographs, screaming headlines, frauds, and endless promotions of newspapers themselves.
What is Yellow Journalism
400
The opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that criticism in the same story
What is Right of Reply
400
The writing of a regional, national, or even international story to bring out the local angle
What is Localization
400
The concept of joint planning of pages or sections of publications by writers, editors, and designers; also called the team or WED approach
What is Maestro
400
A question that is structured to allow the interview subject latitude in answering. The structure of an open-ended question does not allow for a simple one-word answer.
What is Open-ended question
400
The concept, so named by Marshall McLuhan, of the world as having become a more tightly interrelated community because of simultaneous broadcast of significant events
What is Global Village
500
A damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast extemporaneously
What is Slander
500
A story that causes the reader to feel such emotions as sorrow, pity, or amazement
What is Human-Interest Story
500
The main story of several stories about a topic on one page of a paper; the story that brings the issue into sharp focus
What is Mainbar
500
For an interview, the person who has the best and most reliable information about a topic.
What is Primary Source
500
The use of various news databases and other resources on the Internet to facilitate the gathering of certain kinds of news information