Newsworthiness
This element refers to how recent an event is, making it more likely to be reported.
What is immediacy?
This department is responsible for selling and designing promotional content for the newspaper.
What is the Advertising Department?
This person oversees the entire newspaper operation, including both business and editorial aspects.
Who is the Publisher?
This is the most common title for a person who gathers and writes news stories.
Who is a Reporter?
This line at the top of an article tells readers who wrote the story.
What is the Byline?
This term refers to the profession of gathering, verifying, analyzing, and presenting information.
What is Journalism?
When a story involves well-known individuals or organizations, it demonstrates this element of newsworthiness.
What is prominence?
Distributing newspapers to subscribers and managing subscription databases are key functions of this department.
What is the Circulation Department?
This role is responsible for the overall content and direction of the newspaper.
Who is the Editor?
These journalists are not assigned to a specific beat and cover various topics as needed.
Who are General Assignment Reporters?
The first sentence or paragraph of a news story, containing the most crucial information, is called this.
What is the Lead?
A person who practices the craft of reporting, writing, and distributing news is called this.
What is a Journalist?
This element is present when a story has the power to affect a large number of people or has significant consequences.
What is impact?
Layout, printing, and the physical assembly of the newspaper are handled by this department.
What is the Production Department?
Working directly under the Editor, this person handles day-to-day operations of the newsroom.
Who is the Managing Editor?
These reporters specialize in covering a particular subject area or location.
Who are Beat Reporters?
This element appears above the article and is designed to grab the reader's attention and summarize the story.
What is the Headline?
This is the physical or virtual space where journalists work together to create news content.
What is a Newsroom?
When a story contains something unusual, unexpected, or out of the ordinary, it exhibits this element.
What is novelty?
This department's revenue is crucial for offsetting the costs of producing a newspaper, as subscription fees alone are often insufficient. Its ads are a big part of a newspaper's income.
What is the Advertising Department?
This editor is responsible for all visual content, including photographs and their placement.
Who is the Photo Editor?
This professional creates visual elements to accompany stories and enhance the newspaper's layout.
Who is a Graphic Designer?
When using someone's exact words in a story, a journalist includes this element.
What is a Quote?
This form of journalism involves delivering news via television or radio.
What is Broadcast news?
This element is present when a story evokes feelings such as sympathy, anger, or amazement in the audience.
What are emotions?
In the digital age, this department has expanded its role to include managing online subscriptions and digital distribution.
What is the Circulation Department?
Local news coverage falls under the purview of this editor.
Who is the City Editor?
This writer specializes in long-form, often human interest stories that go beyond hard news.
Who is a Feature Writer?
This piece of information tells readers where and when the story was written, often appearing at the beginning of the article.
What is the Dateline?
These are the primary consumers of newspaper and online written content.
Who are Readers?
This element refers to how geographically or culturally close a story is to the audience, often making local news more relevant.
What is proximity?
his department works closely with the editorial team to ensure that paid content doesn't compromise the integrity of news coverage, maintaining a "wall" between advertising and editorial content.
What is the Advertising Department?
Human interest stories and in-depth articles are typically overseen by this editor.
Who is the Feature Editor?
This person writes critical assessments of movies, books, restaurants, or other forms of entertainment.
Who is a Reviewer?
This term refers to the identification of the source of information or quotes in a news story.
What is Attribution?
This type of news organization focuses on covering stories relevant to a specific city or region.
What is a Local news outlet?
When a story involves disagreement, tension, or opposition between individuals, groups, or ideas, it demonstrates this element of newsworthiness.
What is conflict?
What is the circulation department?
This editor is responsible for all athletic news and coverage in the newspaper.
Who is the Sports Editor?
This role combines elements of reporting and design to create engaging visual representations of complex information.
Who is a designer/graphic designer?
Also known as a pull quote, this eye-catching element repeats an important phrase from the article in larger text.
What is a Liftout Quote?
This term describes the specific group of people that a news organization aims to reach with its content.
What is the Target audience?