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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. What's the order for attribution?
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Creative Titles (magazines)
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
Mission statement (magazines)

2. Titles should promise...
A benefit
Display copy (magazines)
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Second day stories

3. 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
Quotes in print
said
Feature well (magazines)
Listservs

4. What's the key to plural possessives?
General rules about direct quotes
Usenet
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Pluralize then make it possessive

5. What are the types of verbals?
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

6. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
Second day stories
Verbals
To introduce clauses.
Passive voice

7. Whites will soon make up...
If they're relevant to the story
Fairness - ethics - decency
Less than half of the U.S. population
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

8. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Why quotes are important
Feeds/wire
Race

9. 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
Guidelines for photo captions
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Niche
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

10. Correlative conjunctions
Layering
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Mission statement (magazines)

11. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
Attribution
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
How well does it say it?
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

12. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Why quotes are important
Pull
General rules about direct quotes
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

13. 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
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Set up lead
Less than half of the U.S. population

14. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Creative Titles (magazines)
Civic journalism
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
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
Pluralize then make it possessive
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

16. Where should attribution go?
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
General rules about direct quotes
Navigate so users can find info
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution

17. Damages
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Civic journalism
External blurbs (magazines)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

18. 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
Creative Titles (magazines)
Feeds/wire
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Partial or orphan quotes

19. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Display copy (magazines)
Usenet
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Devices and techniques for service journalism

20. Why should you use quotes?
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Active voice
Display copy (magazines)
Link unequal sentence elements

21. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Display copy (magazines)
Partial or orphan quotes
Usenet

22. Brings news to you
How well does it say it?
General rules about direct quotes
Verbals
Push technology

23. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Display copy (magazines)
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Creative Titles (magazines)
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations

24. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Quotes in print
Info boxes
What quotes add to a story

25. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
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.
Parrot
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

26. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Pull
Kinds of blurbs
Passive voice

27. When are relative pronouns like who used?
A benefit
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
Layering
To introduce clauses.

28. Reputation is...

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29. When is 'who/whoever' used?
Photo captions
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Fairness - ethics - decency

30. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Inverted pyramid
Bias
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings

31. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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32. Story budget

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33. 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.
Navigate so users can find info
Listservs
Principles of service journalism
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

34. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
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
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
External blurbs (magazines)
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

35. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Explanatory approach
Anyone - either ususally singular
Set up lead
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

36. Collective noun
Covers (magazines)
Passive voice
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 collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

37. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Pull
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Attribution

38. Qualified privilege
Conversation model
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Kinds of blurbs

39. News values
said
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
relative. The dead can't be libeled.

40. What's the best defense against libel?
Truth.
Guidelines for photo captions
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

41. Letters to/from editor - Letters from readers - Calendars - Q & A - Cartoons - quotes - Shopping guides
Second day stories
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
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

42. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Pluralize then make it possessive
Fact checking
Second day stories
Bias

43. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Passive voice
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Ads
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

44. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Coverlines
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

45. Visual interest - cosumerism - trends - community - inspiration - twists of fate - great writing.
Contemporary news value
Kinds of blurbs
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Slang

46. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Listservs
Attribution
Parrot

47. Tape editors
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Explanatory approach
Quotes in print

48. 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
Display copy (magazines)
How to critique articles
Jargon
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

49. 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
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Kinds of blurbs
Explanatory approach
Usenet

50. Actual malice

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