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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Repurposing
Second day stories
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

2. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Display copy (magazines)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

3. What protects journalistics & how?
To introduce clauses.
Feature well (magazines)
Service journalism
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

4. Correlative conjunctions
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
said
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Links letters or words together

5. 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.
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Link unequal sentence elements
Listservs
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

6. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
A benefit
Guidelines for photo captions
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations

7. Qualified privilege
Inverted pyramid
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

8. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.
Attribution
Jargon
When to use direct quotes
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

9. Executive producer
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Conversation model
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Journalism roles

10. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
Race
Feeds/wire
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Bias

11. 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?
How to critique articles
said
Metaphor
Contemporary news value

12. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Civic journalism
Links letters or words together
Race

13. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Listservs
Conversation model
grammar and style
Feeds/wire

14. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Race
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
To introduce clauses.

15. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Layering
Inverted pyramid
grammar and style
Characteristics of news

16. When is 'who/whoever' used?
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Less than half of the U.S. population
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

17. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Active voice
Truth.
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

18. Public editor
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
grammar and style
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Kinds of blurbs

19. Web blog or Journal style
Fairness - ethics - decency
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Fact checking

20. Collective noun
Metaphor
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Redundancy
Coverlines

21. Titles should promise...
Anyone - either ususally singular
Fact checking
A benefit
Heart

22. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Usenet
What quotes add to a story
General rules about direct quotes
Fact checking

23. What's the order for attribution?
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Guidelines for photo captions
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
How to critique articles

24. 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
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
Inverted pyramid
Verbals

25. Fair comment and criticism
Bias
Links letters or words together
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Contemporary news value

26. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Creative Titles (magazines)
Pluralize then make it possessive
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
How well does it say it?

27. Someone says something unique (revolutionary; news worthy) - Someone says something uniquely (colorful language) - Someone important says something important
When to use direct quotes
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

28. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
How well does it say it?
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
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

29. Tape editors
Feeds/wire
When to use direct quotes
Pluralize then make it possessive
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

30. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Redundancy
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
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

31. Reputation is...

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32. What are the types of verbals?
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

33. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
Link unequal sentence elements
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Niche
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

34. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
relative. The dead can't be libeled.

35. Convergence of media
Criteria to evaluate stories
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Feature well (magazines)
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

36. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Link unequal sentence elements
Distinct tone and identity
Contemporary news value
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

37. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Jargon
Journalism roles
Truth.
Fact checking

38. Sidebar
Push technology
Verbals
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Coverlines

39. 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.
Repurposing
Fact checking
Bias
Metaphor

40. 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
Verbals
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

41. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Set up lead
Coverlines
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Ads

42. A statement of purpose that identifies the specific editorial focus of the magazine - who the intended readers are and a definition of its personality
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Conversation model
Pull
Mission statement (magazines)

43. Hypen
Links letters or words together
Active voice
Mission statement (magazines)
Truth.

44. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Ads
What quotes add to a story
Passive voice

45. Dash
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
Explanatory approach
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
grammar and style

46. Coordinating conjunctions
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Verbals
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
How to critique articles

47. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Devices and techniques for service journalism
grammar and style
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

48. Subordinating conjunctions
Link unequal sentence elements
To introduce clauses.
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Niche

49. Loopwhole journalism
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Devices and techniques for service journalism
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

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

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