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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Where should attribution go?
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Creative Titles (magazines)
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

2. 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
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Guidelines for photo captions
How to critique articles

3. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Metaphor
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
General rules about direct quotes
Dollar bill rule(magazines)

4. Web blog or Journal style
Covers (magazines)
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.

5. Public editor
Race
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Why quotes are important
Heart

6. When is 'who/whoever' used?
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Devices and techniques for service journalism

7. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Bias

8. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Guidelines for photo captions
Heart
Niche

9. Steps in the editing process
Ads
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
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.
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings

10. Absolute privilege
Display copy (magazines)
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
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

11. Brings news to you
Push technology
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
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

12. A statement of purpose that identifies the specific editorial focus of the magazine - who the intended readers are and a definition of its personality
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Mission statement (magazines)
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Journalism roles

13. 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
Bias
Quotes in print
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Pluralize then make it possessive

14. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
How well does it say it?
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Creative Titles (magazines)
Race

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

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16. Style
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Feeds/wire
Heart

17. Local sidebars that include details like phone numbers - addresses - etc.
Info boxes
Heart
Cliche
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

18. What's the key to plural possessives?
General rules about direct quotes
Partial or orphan quotes
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Pluralize then make it possessive

19. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Explanatory approach
Criteria to evaluate stories
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Coverlines

20. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Coverlines
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
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.
Journalism roles

21. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Set up lead
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Passive voice
Kinds of blurbs

22. Reputation is...

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23. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Civic journalism
Pluralize then make it possessive

24. 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?
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
How to critique articles
Criteria to evaluate stories
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

25. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
How well does it say it?
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

26. May be colorful but may be understood by only certain demographic groups.
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Layering
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Slang

27. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Partial or orphan quotes
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Bias

28. Web sites must be easy to...
Navigate so users can find info
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Inverted pyramid
said

29. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Second day stories
Feeds/wire
Commercial databases

30. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Characteristics of news
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Photo captions

31. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Active voice
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.

32. In essence - anything from the text but the story (Title - deck - head - subhead - pull quotes - bylines - blurbs - captions - etc.) - Used to draw readers into a story - Stats reinforce display copy and visuals
Less than half of the U.S. population
Display copy (magazines)
Covers (magazines)
Truth.

33. News values
Verbals
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Explanatory approach

34. Whites will soon make up...
Less than half of the U.S. population
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Passive voice
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

35. 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
Principles of service journalism
Devices and techniques for service 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.
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

36. Collective noun
To introduce clauses.
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

37. Verb forms that behave like nouns - adjectives or adverbs.
Verbals
Quotes in print
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Metaphor

38. Managing editor
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Fairness - ethics - decency
Covers (magazines)

39. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
Conversation model
Coverlines
Info boxes
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

40. 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
How well does it say it?
Partial or orphan quotes
Basic Journalistic Values
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.

41. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Mission statement (magazines)
Attribution
Race

42. What are the types of verbals?
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
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Service journalism

43. Qualified privilege
Niche
Slang
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

44. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Verbals
Repurposing
Passive voice

45. 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.
Listservs
Niche
Partial or orphan quotes
Layering

46. 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
Listservs
Service journalism
Basic Journalistic Values
Verbals

47. Titles should promise...
Anyone - either ususally singular
Feature well (magazines)
A benefit
Niche

48. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
Characteristics of news
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
When to use direct quotes
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

49. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
Basic Journalistic Values
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
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Why quotes are important

50. Loopwhole journalism
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Race
Journalism roles
Explanatory approach