Editing Print
Editing Newscasts
Common Mistakes
Editing: Why & How
100

This person should look over their article carefully before submitting

Who is the journalist?

100

Broadcast editors focus on these areas

What are videos, images, & sounds

100

These are words that sound the same but are spelled differently

What are homonyms?

100

This includes using someone else's words without citing the source

What is plagiarism?

200

This person's work is based on the size of the paper

Who is the editor-in-chief?

200

This happens to scenes with grammatical errors

What is they have to be re-shot?

200

These pronouns should be avoided in an article

What are first-person pronouns (I, me, we, etc.)?

200

This refers to printing incorrect info about a person

What is libel?

300

This is the first person to look over a journalist's article

Who is the assignment editor?

300

This is a challenge of using conversations

What is they don't always have natural stopping points?

300

These numbers should always be spelled out

What are numbers 1-10?

300

When journalists make up info, they have made a ___

What is a fabrication?

400

This person works to maintain paper deadlines

Who is the managing editor?

400

This must always match up to a video segment

What is the audio?

400

This must be printed when a mistake is made

What is a retraction?

400

This type of editing focuses on things like grammar

What is micro-editing?

500

This person reviews an article after the assignment editor

Who is the copyeditor?

500

This is the broadcast editors job/goal

What is cutting and piecing together to tell a story?
500

Most news outlets use these style guides

What is the AP Stylebook or the Chicago Manual of Style?

500

This type of editing focuses on things like layout

What is macro-editing?