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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Fact checking
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Race

2. Collective noun
Slang
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Second day stories
Usenet

3. Coordinating conjunctions
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

4. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Push technology
Civic journalism
Second day stories
When to use direct quotes

5. Loopwhole journalism
Explanatory approach
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
When to use direct quotes
Anyone - either ususally singular

6. Subordinating conjunctions
Metaphor
Feeds/wire
Link unequal sentence elements
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

7. Visual interest - cosumerism - trends - community - inspiration - twists of fate - great writing.
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
Contemporary news value
If they're relevant to the story
What quotes add to a story

8. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
How to critique articles
Passive voice
Inverted pyramid
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

9. Whites will soon make up...
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Conversation model
Less than half of the U.S. population
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

10. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Characteristics of news
Listservs
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.
First degree words

11. When is 'that' used?
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Distinct tone and identity
Active voice

12. Correlative conjunctions
Second day stories
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
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.

13. When should the time element appear?
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
said
Contemporary news value

14. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
External blurbs (magazines)
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Inverted pyramid
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

15. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Info boxes
General rules about direct quotes
Passive voice
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

16. Qualified privilege
Coverlines
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

17. Policy on accusers in sex crimes

18. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.
Passive voice
Photo captions
Attribution
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

19. When are relative pronouns like who used?
To introduce clauses.
Heart
Cliche
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

20. Web sites must be easy to...
Navigate so users can find info
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Photo captions
Fact checking

21. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Bias
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
Info boxes
said

22. 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
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Repurposing
Service journalism

23. May be colorful but may be understood by only certain demographic groups.
Slang
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
When to use direct quotes

24. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Repurposing
Fairness - ethics - decency
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution

25. Convergence of media
A benefit
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
When to use direct quotes

26. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Anyone - either ususally singular
Second day stories
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Commercial databases

27. Dash
Less than half of the U.S. population
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
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Cliche

28. Libel
Why quotes are important
Listservs
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Principles of service journalism

29. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
4 elements of covers (magazines)
If they're relevant to the story
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
First degree words

30. Grammar
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Partial or orphan quotes
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

31. Web sites need...
Quotes in print
Distinct tone and identity
Feeds/wire
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

32. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Pull
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

33. Sidebar
Heart
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Pluralize then make it possessive
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

34. Design/layout editors
When to use direct quotes
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
said
Pull

35. Indefinite pronouns
Truth.
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Basic Journalistic Values
Anyone - either ususally singular

36. When are commas used?
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Parrot
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.
Set up lead

37. Someone says something unique (revolutionary; news worthy) - Someone says something uniquely (colorful language) - Someone important says something important
Redundancy
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
A benefit
When to use direct quotes

38. What are the standards of a copy editor?
grammar and style
4 elements of covers (magazines)
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Inverted pyramid

39. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
How well does it say it?
Guidelines for photo captions

40. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Conversation model
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Niche

41. What's the best defense against libel?
Truth.
Navigate so users can find info
Second day stories
Anyone - either ususally singular

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

43. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Why quotes are important
Niche
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Explanatory approach

44. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Creative Titles (magazines)
Anyone - either ususally singular
Second day stories
Pluralize then make it possessive

45. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Verbals
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Jargon

46. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Info boxes
Kinds of blurbs
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Quotes in print

47. Basic format (colors; yellow border on Nat Geo) - Logo and ancillary info (tagline [i.e. GQ Look smart - Live sharp] - price - vol # - issue date) - Illustration (in a generic sense - any kind of art or visual) - Cover lines ("sell lines -" "cover bl
Basic Journalistic Values
4 elements of covers (magazines)
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Second day stories

48. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

49. Verb forms that behave like nouns - adjectives or adverbs.
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Verbals

50. 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.
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
Fairness - ethics - decency
Listservs
Covers (magazines)