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1. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?
Covers (magazines)
Criteria to evaluate stories
Attribution
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

2. Tape editors
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Why quotes are important
Coverlines

3. Why should you use quotes?
Distinct tone and identity
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Why quotes are important

4. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Devices and techniques for service journalism
If they're relevant to the story
Race
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

5. When is 'who/whoever' used?
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

6. Managing editor
External blurbs (magazines)
Links letters or words together
To introduce clauses.
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

7. Someone says something unique (revolutionary; news worthy) - Someone says something uniquely (colorful language) - Someone important says something important
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Repurposing
Pull
When to use direct quotes

8. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
grammar and style
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

9. Coordinating conjunctions
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Repurposing
Push technology
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

10. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Covers (magazines)
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Parrot

11. A statement of purpose that identifies the specific editorial focus of the magazine - who the intended readers are and a definition of its personality
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Mission statement (magazines)
Pluralize then make it possessive
Second day stories

12. Dash
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Parrot
Why quotes are important
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

13. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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14. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Conversation model
Commercial databases
Civic journalism
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.

15. Sidebar
Ads
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Civic journalism
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.

16. Publisher/Manager

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17. Write a caption for every photo (except studio shots) - Write sentences - Write in the present tense - active voice (on first sentence) - Place captions under the photos - Don't state the obvious - Write more than one line - Make the last line count
Jargon
Conversation model
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Guidelines for photo captions

18. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Parrot
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

19. 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
Link unequal sentence elements
Principles of service journalism
Repurposing
Characteristics of news

20. What's the order for attribution?
A benefit
Journalism roles
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Service journalism

21. What protects journalistics & how?
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Service journalism
Kinds of blurbs

22. 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.
Metaphor
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

23. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Redundancy
What quotes add to a story

24. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Cliche
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
Attribution

25. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
What quotes add to a story
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Commercial databases

26. Hypen
Links letters or words together
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Conversation model
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

27. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Cliche
Anyone - either ususally singular
Criteria to evaluate stories
Coverlines

28. Web sites must be easy to...
Verbals
Navigate so users can find info
Second day stories
What quotes add to a story

29. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
First degree words
Distinct tone and identity
Characteristics of news
A benefit

30. Convergence of media
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
When to use direct quotes
Journalism roles
A benefit

31. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
Redundancy
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Why quotes are important
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

32. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
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
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Active voice

33. Where should attribution go?
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.
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
General rules about direct quotes
Only one attribution and after the first sentence

34. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Set up lead
Conversation model
Parrot
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

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

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36. Qualified privilege
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Covers (magazines)
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
First degree words

37. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Pull
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Bias

38. Fair use
Listservs
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.

39. Executive producer
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Metaphor

40. Verb forms that behave like nouns - adjectives or adverbs.
External blurbs (magazines)
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Layering
Verbals

41. 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
Heart
Contemporary news value
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Internal blurbs (magazines)

42. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Jargon
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Cliche
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

43. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Slang
Civic journalism

44. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Photo captions
To introduce clauses.

45. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Commercial databases
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Bias
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

46. Never change anything in direct quotes from a printed source - Always attribute direct quotes from a printed source - Place [sic] immediately following an error from a printed source (Not style - purely factual errors; sic means thus - that's how you
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Quotes in print
Covers (magazines)

47. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Journalism roles
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Passive voice
Bias

48. 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.)
Fairness - ethics - decency
Layering
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

49. Web sites need...
Distinct tone and identity
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

50. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Ads
Links letters or words together
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

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