Do you know your Eugene?
Reporting Odds & Ends
Definition-ally Speaking
"Oh, The Mistakes We'll Make Along the Way"
Do you know your UO?
100

The year Eugene was incorporated as a city: a) 1860 b) 1862 c) 1872

What is 1862

100

The editor of the Washington Post when "Jimmy's World" was published.

Who is Ben Bradlee?

100

Attribution.

What is identifying who said something?

100

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard “brings us closer” to a war the U.S. doesn’t seek. “The dictator of North Korea made a decision yesterday that brings us closer to war, not farther from it,” JD Vance said. “We have never sought war with North Korea and still today we do not seek it.”

What does it look like to incorrectly use a source's first name twice?

100

The year the University of Oregon opened its doors?

What is 1876?

200

The City Council, Eugene's legislative body, is responsible for passing laws, setting community goals, and deciding which services the city will provide. Councilors are elected for four-year terms. How many councilors serve on the City Council?

What is eight?

200

What year did the Supreme Court hear the Sullivan v NY Times case?

What is 1964?

200

Appositive.

What is a noun or noun phrase that is situated near another noun and provides added information?

200

WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then was demoted because she is straight.

What is the WHEN of the story is missing?

200

The dean of the SOJC goes by this spelling. 

What is Juan-Carlos Molleda?

300

The address of the Eugene City Council. 

What is 500 East 4th Avenue, Suite 302 Eugene, Oregon 97401?

300

Some of the reasons a writer would use a quote?

What are 

  • Quotes insert real people into your stories
  • They enliven and humanize stories
  • They add opinion and emotion.
  • They add detail and drama
  • Adds credibility. It is not the reporter saying something; it is someone who supposedly knows what he or she is talking about.
300

Nut graph.

What is the paragraph, particularly in a feature story, that explains the news value of the story?

300

“We’re starting to communicate to the community that the campaign has some momentum,” Lisa MacMaster, the YMCA’s senior director of philanthropy and communications said. The cash and pledges from the board are a significant gift, and it shows the board’s significant commitment to the project and to the community”.

What is a missing comma, a missing open quotes, and a period inside the end quotes?

300

The Oregon Duck is modeled after him.

Who is Donald Duck?

400

The most important person at the UO -- and the person the Eugene mayor calls when she needs a question answered. 

Who is Karl Scholz, the UO president?

400

The six traits of a news story/ 

What are buzz, prominence, proximity, impact, timeliness, conflict?

400

Anecdote.

What is a short story often used in the lede of a feature story to help show the bigger picture of the story?

400

“When you go to the Rose Garden or Staples Center or some place like that you got these infinity ceilings,” Bickler said, “Mac Court was nothing like that. Its raunchy, its old, its nostalgic.”

What is a comma that should be a period and "its" should be "it's"?

400

The sport Phil Knight took part in when he was a student at the UO.

What is track and field?

500

The mayor of Eugene, correctly spelled? 

Who is Kaarin Knudson?

500

The number-one thing you learned in Reporting 1.

What is ...?

500

In the ideal world, a news lede will not be longer than this number of words.

What is 45?

500

DETROIT, Michigan — At least two big Uber stakeholders have agreed to sell part of their private shares to a group led by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank in a deal that lets investors cash out at a discount and could bring management stability to the troubled ride-hailing company.

What is not needing Michigan in the dateline?

500

The Constitutional amendment written on the outside of Allen Hall.

What is the First Amendment? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."