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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Web sites need...
Fact checking
Distinct tone and identity
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

2. A statement of purpose that identifies the specific editorial focus of the magazine - who the intended readers are and a definition of its personality
Mission statement (magazines)
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

3. What are the types of verbals?
Pull
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Coverlines

4. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Guidelines for photo captions
Ads

5. Fair comment and criticism
Active voice
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

6. Web blog or Journal style
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Link unequal sentence elements
The highest exectives who shape the organization's long-term mission as well as overseeing advertising - production - personnel and financial matters. publisher- print - general manager- broadcast

7. Cut the copy (quick and to the point) - Be clear - Involve the reader ('How I' approach - 'How you' approach - 'How Jane Doe' approach) - Think useful - Think new or news - Think money
1. use of material that discloses highly personal info about an individual or portarys that person in intimate terms when there is not legitimate public concern. 2. Depiction of someone in a false light. 3. Evidence that journalist has intruded someo
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Mission statement (magazines)
Principles of service journalism

8. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Journalism roles
Feeds/wire
1. Info must be false 2. person must be identified 3. info must be published 4. the person's reputation must be damaged 5. news organization must be at fault

9. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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10. What word should be used in attribution?
Service journalism
said
Fact checking
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

11. Where should attribution go?
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Passive voice
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

12. Aristotle's 3 questions: What does it say? - How well does it say it? - Was it worth saying? [What does it say? Is there a clear focus? Is there a point?] - Theme?
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
How to critique articles
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

13. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Attribution
Distinct tone and identity
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

14. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
Push technology
Creative Titles (magazines)
Layering
Cliche

15. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Redundancy
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Usenet

16. What's the order for attribution?
Usenet
Characteristics of news
Truth.
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

17. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Active voice
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Inverted pyramid
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

18. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Active voice
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
What quotes add to a story

19. Libel
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Pull

20. When are relative pronouns like who used?
To introduce clauses.
Metaphor
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Info boxes

21. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
Less than half of the U.S. population
Fairness - ethics - decency
When to use direct quotes
Kinds of blurbs

22. Correlative conjunctions
To separate independent clauses and to separate the elements in a list or description. No comma is called before the conjunction in a simple series.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

23. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Characteristics of news
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Devices and techniques for service journalism

24. Label - such as "contents" (Table is in design aspect only) - Logo - Slogan - Historical reference - Date of publication - Listing of editorial staff - Associate affiliations - Masthead (Post Office info - etc.)
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Active voice
To separate independent clauses and to separate the elements in a list or description. No comma is called before the conjunction in a simple series.
Commercial databases

25. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?
Conversation model
Criteria to evaluate stories
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations

26. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Explanatory approach
Second day stories
Parrot
Cliche

27. Style
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Guidelines for photo captions
Inverted pyramid
Internal blurbs (magazines)

28. When is 'who/whoever' used?
1. use of material that discloses highly personal info about an individual or portarys that person in intimate terms when there is not legitimate public concern. 2. Depiction of someone in a false light. 3. Evidence that journalist has intruded someo
Criteria to evaluate stories
Service journalism
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

29. Web sites must be easy to...
Truth.
Navigate so users can find info
Feature well (magazines)
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

30. Brings news to you
Push technology
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Links letters or words together
Distinct tone and identity

31. Damages
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
grammar and style
Active voice

32. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Photo captions
1. read for understanding 2. read for organization and focus 3. read for accuracy 4. read for grammar - spelling - punctuation and style 5. read for language and sentence structure 6. proofread

33. Convergence of media
General rules about direct quotes
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

34. When should references to someone's heritage - gender - sexuality or disability be included?

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35. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Basic Journalistic Values
How well does it say it?
Partial or orphan quotes
Internal blurbs (magazines)

36. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
Ads
Kinds of blurbs
Repurposing
The highest exectives who shape the organization's long-term mission as well as overseeing advertising - production - personnel and financial matters. publisher- print - general manager- broadcast

37. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Jargon
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
4 elements of covers (magazines)

38. Design/layout editors
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Listservs
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

39. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
How well does it say it?
Bias
Mission statement (magazines)

40. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
General rules about direct quotes
said
Fact checking
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

41. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Coverlines
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Heart
How well does it say it?

42. Tape editors
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
To introduce clauses.
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

43. Form of communal email in which people interested in a common topic send messages to a specific online address and receive all other messages sent to that addresses.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Listservs
Conversation model
Civic journalism

44. Aka refrigerator journalism - How-to; practical info - Advertisers love - Not a separate category of writing - just a different approach - Used in publishing houses like Meredith (grandfather of SJ) and Rodale
Service journalism
Inverted pyramid
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
A benefit

45. May be colorful but may be understood by only certain demographic groups.
If they're relevant to the story
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Slang

46. Control Ethnocentrism (your own country and culture is better than others) - Altruistic Democracy: politicians should serve the public good not own interests - Responsible Capitalism: open competition among business will create better world - Small-t
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Criteria to evaluate stories
Basic Journalistic Values
said

47. Story budget

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48. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Kinds of blurbs
If they're relevant to the story

49. Figure of speech that places a word or prhase in a fresh context to clarify or make point in a creative way. Be on your guard in usage.
Truth.
Feeds/wire
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Metaphor

50. Qualified privilege
Slang
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)