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News And Mag Editing Basics

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

2. Public editor
Why quotes are important
Characteristics of news
A benefit
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

3. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Mission statement (magazines)
Pull
What quotes add to a story
Service journalism

4. Managing editor
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

5. Style
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Mission statement (magazines)
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Heart

6. What protects journalistics & how?
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
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.

7. Local sidebars that include details like phone numbers - addresses - etc.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Info boxes
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Slang

8. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Partial or orphan quotes
If they're relevant to the story
Second day stories
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

9. What's the key to plural possessives?
Pluralize then make it possessive
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Metaphor
Journalism roles

10. Subordinating conjunctions
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Quotes in print
Link unequal sentence elements

11. Letters to/from editor - Letters from readers - Calendars - Q & A - Cartoons - quotes - Shopping guides
Covers (magazines)
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Redundancy

12. Actual malice

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13. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
How to critique articles
Bias
Kinds of blurbs
Jargon

14. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Pull
Active voice
Journalism roles
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

15. Web blog or Journal style
Principles of service journalism
Inverted pyramid
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

16. Used in broadcasting. it frames a story by telling viewers and listeners what to expect.
Civic journalism
Criteria to evaluate stories
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Set up lead

17. Collective noun
Verbals
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

18. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Slang
Feeds/wire
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
To introduce clauses.

19. Convergence of media
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Slang
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
What quotes add to a story

20. Damages
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Navigate so users can find info
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

21. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
Link unequal sentence elements
Inverted pyramid
How well does it say it?
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

22. Executive producer
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Journalism roles
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

23. News values
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Truth.
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

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
Push technology
Basic Journalistic Values
External blurbs (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.

25. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Usenet
Info boxes
Truth.

26. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Explanatory approach
Links letters or words together
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Why quotes are important

27. When is 'which' used?
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Usenet
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

28. 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
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Dollar bill rule(magazines)

29. What word should be used in attribution?
said
Ads
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

30. Design/layout editors
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Attribution
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Bias

31. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
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
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
First degree words
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

32. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Navigate so users can find info
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
grammar and style
Redundancy

33. Grammar
Truth.
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Distinct tone and identity
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

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

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35. Web sites need...
Repurposing
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Distinct tone and identity
Niche

36. Coordinating conjunctions
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
How to critique articles
Verbals

37. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
Inverted pyramid
External blurbs (magazines)
How to critique articles
Links letters or words together

38. A personal story rather than general.
Guidelines for photo captions
Heart
Jargon
Navigate so users can find info

39. Whites will soon make up...
When to use direct quotes
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Explanatory approach
Less than half of the U.S. population

40. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

41. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
To introduce clauses.
Repurposing
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

42. Brings news to you
Push technology
Jargon
Characteristics of news
Quotes in print

43. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Inverted pyramid
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
Verbals
What quotes add to a story

44. Tape editors
Commercial databases
Coverlines
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Why quotes are important

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
To introduce clauses.
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Service journalism
How well does it say it?

46. When is 'that' used?
Ads
Anyone - either ususally singular
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

47. Policy on accusers in sex crimes

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48. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Commercial databases
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Characteristics of news
Creative Titles (magazines)

49. 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
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

50. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
Anyone - either ususally singular
What quotes add to a story
Why quotes are important
Quotes in print