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General Understanding of News
Interest vs. Importance
Definition of News pt.1
Definition of News pt. 2
News in the Last One Hundred Years
(Floopy Schwoopy)
100
Reporters who understand this will likely write better and more appealing articles than those who do not.
What is news?
100
Interest and importance are not always __________.
What is synonymous?
100
News must be factual, yet not all facts are __________.
What is news?
100
News that is important to one community/school is not ____________.
What is not always important to another?
100
The ten year anniversary of what event was just commemorated.
What is September 11th, 2001?
200
This can change almost anything into news.
What is circumstances?
200
The ________ must decide whether news is important.
What is the reporter?
200
News may be this, especially that of a prominent person or an authority figure of a topic.
What is an opinion?
200
What is news today is not always ___________.
What is news tomorrow?
200
This is the man who shot John F. Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
300
The goal of news is to deliver FAST and ________.
What is FIRST?
300
Obama playing golf is interesting because of Obama's ___________.
What is prominence?
300
News is primarily about __________.
What is people?
300
What is news today to one person is ________________.
What is not always news to another?
300
This general was responsible for conquering the Pacific in World War II.
Who is General George MacArthur?
400
The news consumer assumes that news is RELEVANT and ________________.
What is accurate?
400
Rick Bragg is called the _____________ because he intertwines interest into an informative article.
What is "the storyteller"?
400
News is not necessarily a report of a ______________.
What is a recent event?
400
This future New York Times reporter grew up in the town of Possum Trot, near Jacksonville, Alabama
Who is Rick Bragg?
400
The day that the stock market crashed in 1929 is referred to as this:
What is Black Tuesday?
500
The public may be interested in something, but it may not be _____________.
What is important?
500
______________ is usually more interesting to the general public because it appeals to a sense of human interest.
What is soft news?
500
After being fired for plagiarism, ____________ now works as a life coach in the field of mental health.
Who is Jayson Blair?
500
Hard News is often related to this.
What is tragedy?
500
This date in history is the day that the Titanic sank.
What is April 15, 1912?