Writing for Magazines & Newspapers
The part of a magazine where the editors can best connect with their readership.
What is editor's note?
A word for media that shares information about current events impacting people's lives
What is news media?
The part of a written work where the reader can find the contents the work contains
What is table of contents?
A journalistic principle that requires reporters to present facts accurately and as free from bias as possible
What is neutrality? (or What is objectivity?)
The correct way to say information in the plural
What is information, and not informations?
A DIY booklet that is usually cheap to make & distribute
What is a zine?
We learned that, in this country, news sources are highly politicized.
What is the United States?
A short clip of media taken from a longer audio or video recording. In journalism and media, it is used to summarize a content's core message.
What is sound bite?
Scholars like Assal Rad have argued that news organizations often use this kind of language in their headlines to obscure Israel's role in committing genocide in Palestine
What is Gaza?
This movie centers around the fashion magazine industry and was made in 2006.
What is The Devil Wears Prada?
A short text or caption placed alongside or near a published image that names its creator, owner, or copyright holder
What is a photo credit?
An environment—often online—where you only encounter information, opinions, and beliefs that align with your own
What is an echo chamber?
A specialized form of journalism that relies on images to tell news stories, with adherence to journalistic guidelines
The media tool used to propel the Rwandan genocide forward
What is radio?
A concise, one-to-two-sentence summary that appears in the introduction and states the core argument of your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
The text that identifies who created a photograph in an article
What is photo credit?
One of the news sources we have read online articles from
What is BBC? (or What is The Guardian?)
The first sentence in a news article
What is lede/lead?
The specific type of poetry Rafeef Ziadah uses in her poem "We Teach Life, Sir"
What is spoken word poetry?
Language that tries to create a strong emotional response from an audience
What is emotive language?
A term for the who, what, where, when, why, & how of a news story
What is 5Ws and an H
The division of something into two distinct, often opposing, extremes (we talked about how it applies to politics)
What is polarization?
What is cutline?
A cultural element Hutu extremists would add to certain media programs to normalize violence against the Tutsi minority
What is pop music?
A specific media bias tracker we covered in class. This tracker gets analysts who lean left, center, and right to analyze individual media sources for bias
What is Ad Fontes?