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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Conversation model
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Passive voice

2. What are the types of verbals?
Mission statement (magazines)
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info

3. 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.
Verbals
Listservs
Metaphor
Contemporary news value

4. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Anyone - either ususally singular
Characteristics of news
Journalism roles

5. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Cliche
Attribution
Internal blurbs (magazines)
grammar and style

6. 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?
Coverlines
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
How to critique articles
Pluralize then make it possessive

7. Actual malice

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8. A statement of purpose that identifies the specific editorial focus of the magazine - who the intended readers are and a definition of its personality
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Mission statement (magazines)
Race
Listservs

9. Public editor
Kinds of blurbs
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Creative Titles (magazines)

10. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Conversation model
Partial or orphan quotes
Pluralize then make it possessive
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings

11. Why should you use quotes?
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
grammar and style
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

12. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
If they're relevant to the story
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Commercial databases
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

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

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14. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Jargon
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

15. What's the order for attribution?
Distinct tone and identity
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Repurposing

16. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Link unequal sentence elements
Less than half of the U.S. population
Explanatory approach
Layering

17. Sidebar
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

18. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
To introduce clauses.
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

19. 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
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Creative Titles (magazines)
Partial or orphan quotes
Basic Journalistic Values

20. 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
Link unequal sentence elements
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
4 elements of covers (magazines)
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

21. Rub within body copy (subheads and pull quotes) - Should appear on the same page or spread as the words or ideas for the blurb appear - Should appear in proper story order - Break up text and seas of gray to coax or tease reader into copy - Should fo
Niche
Truth.
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Layering

22. Correlative conjunctions
Links letters or words together
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Civic journalism
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

23. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Second day stories
Parrot
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

24. Fair comment and criticism
Push technology
Parrot
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

25. Where should attribution go?
Partial or orphan quotes
To introduce clauses.
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

26. Hypen
Passive voice
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Links letters or words together
Race

27. What's the key to plural possessives?
Second day stories
grammar and style
Pluralize then make it possessive
Service journalism

28. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Navigate so users can find info
If they're relevant to the story
Usenet

29. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Navigate so users can find info
What quotes add to a story
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

30. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
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
A benefit
Passive voice
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

31. Loopwhole journalism
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Listservs
Inverted pyramid
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

32. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
Kinds of blurbs
4 elements of covers (magazines)
How well does it say it?
Fairness - ethics - decency

33. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Navigate so users can find info
Jargon
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Conversation model

34. Tape editors
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.

35. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Parrot
How well does it say it?
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. 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
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Guidelines for photo captions
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Principles of service journalism

37. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Push technology
Pull
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Photo captions

38. Executive producer
Push technology
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

39. Fair use
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Niche
Info boxes
How to critique articles

40. When is 'which' used?
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Principles of service journalism
Link unequal sentence elements
Commercial databases

41. Brings news to you
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.
Push technology
Photo captions
First degree words

42. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Covers (magazines)
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Push technology

43. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Characteristics of news
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.

44. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
General rules about direct quotes

45. 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
Conversation model
Characteristics of news
Service journalism
Cliche

46. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
Repurposing
Niche
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
4 elements of covers (magazines)

47. Publisher/Manager

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48. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
First degree words
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Navigate so users can find info
Anyone - either ususally singular

49. Web sites must be easy to...
Why quotes are important
Pluralize then make it possessive
Navigate so users can find info
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

50. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Truth.
Redundancy
Distinct tone and identity