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1. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Creative Titles (magazines)
Layering
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
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. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Pull
General rules about direct quotes
Metaphor

3. Indefinite pronouns
Anyone - either ususally singular
First degree words
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

4. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
How well does it say it?
Covers (magazines)
How to critique articles

5. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Verbals
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Feeds/wire
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

6. 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
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Quotes in print
Distinct tone and identity

7. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Set up lead
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Commercial databases
grammar and style

8. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Characteristics of news
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

9. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Photo captions
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Parrot
What quotes add to a story

10. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Ads
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Pull

11. Why should you use quotes?
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
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Pull

12. 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
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Internal blurbs (magazines)
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Basic Journalistic Values

13. What are the types of verbals?
Coverlines
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

14. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Links letters or words together
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Layering
Civic journalism

15. 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
Parrot
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Basic Journalistic Values
Active voice

16. Where do commas and periods go in 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.
Attribution
External blurbs (magazines)
Less than half of the U.S. population

17. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
How to critique articles
Redundancy

18. 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
Parrot
Basic Journalistic Values
Active voice
Principles of service journalism

19. 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?
Listservs
External blurbs (magazines)
How to critique articles
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

20. Policy on accusers in sex crimes

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21. Label - such as "contents" (Table is in design aspect only) - Logo - Slogan - Historical reference - Date of publication - Listing of editorial staff - Associate affiliations - Masthead (Post Office info - etc.)
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Passive voice
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Guidelines for photo captions

22. When should the time element appear?
grammar and style
Inverted pyramid
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

23. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.
Layering
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Niche
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

24. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
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
Conversation model
Display copy (magazines)
Parrot

25. Loopwhole journalism
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Feeds/wire
Fact checking
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

26. 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.
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Links letters or words together
Feeds/wire
Metaphor

27. What word should be used in attribution?
said
Fairness - ethics - decency
Anyone - either ususally singular
To introduce clauses.

28. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Active voice
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
When to use direct quotes
General rules about direct quotes

29. Letters to/from editor - Letters from readers - Calendars - Q & A - Cartoons - quotes - Shopping guides
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Ads
If they're relevant to the story
Why quotes are important

30. Coordinating conjunctions
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Race
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

31. Sidebar
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Creative Titles (magazines)
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

32. Executive producer
Repurposing
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Conversation model
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

33. Visual interest - cosumerism - trends - community - inspiration - twists of fate - great writing.
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Creative Titles (magazines)
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Contemporary news value

34. Public editor
Info boxes
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Niche
Quotes in print

35. Hypen
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Ads
Links letters or words together

36. What's the order for attribution?
External blurbs (magazines)
Photo captions
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Race

37. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Listservs
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Cliche

38. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Bias
Usenet
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Contemporary news value

39. 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.
If they're relevant to the story
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Listservs

40. Design/layout editors
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
General rules about direct quotes
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

41. When is 'that' used?
Anyone - either ususally singular
Niche
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Fairness - ethics - decency

42. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Info boxes
Active voice
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

43. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
External blurbs (magazines)
Characteristics of news
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Bias

44. Qualified privilege
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
grammar and style
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

45. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
grammar and style
Race

46. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Journalism roles
Kinds of blurbs
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Cliche

47. When is 'who/whoever' used?
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
First degree words
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

48. Dash
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.
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Civic journalism
Explanatory approach

49. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Second day stories
Repurposing
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

50. Steps in the editing process
External blurbs (magazines)
Feeds/wire
Conversation model
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

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