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News And Mag Editing Basics

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

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2. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Second day stories
Push technology
Coverlines
General rules about direct quotes

3. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Second day stories
First degree words
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

4. Fair comment and criticism
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Why quotes are important
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Slang

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.
Truth.
Listservs
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Characteristics of news

6. Steps in the editing process
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.
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.
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

7. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Photo captions
Second day stories
Journalism roles
First degree words

8. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Characteristics of news
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

9. Policy on accusers in sex crimes

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10. When is 'which' used?
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Coverlines
Service journalism

11. Why should you use quotes?
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
said
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

12. Executive producer
Layering
Attribution
Verbals
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

13. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Partial or orphan quotes
grammar and style
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
A benefit

14. What protects journalistics & how?
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Bias
Display copy (magazines)
Redundancy

15. 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.
Partial or orphan quotes
Metaphor
Commercial databases
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

16. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Service journalism
How to critique articles
Passive voice
To introduce clauses.

17. Essential part of credibility - Has to do with someone (not the writer or reporting) re-reporting the factual info - Magazines have more extensive fact checking than newspapers (more time for turnaround) - Fact checkers also called research editors/e
Fact checking
Commercial databases
Usenet
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

18. 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
Kinds of blurbs
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Internal blurbs (magazines)

19. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Parrot
When to use direct quotes
Bias
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

20. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Why quotes are important
Contemporary news value
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

21. Where should attribution go?
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Feeds/wire
Conversation model

22. Web blog or Journal style
How well does it say it?
Less than half of the U.S. population
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
First degree words

23. Grammar
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Fairness - ethics - decency
Metaphor
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

24. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Repurposing
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Creative Titles (magazines)
Conversation model

25. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Why quotes are important
Covers (magazines)
grammar and style
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

26. A personal story rather than general.
Navigate so users can find info
Anyone - either ususally singular
Heart
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

27. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
Heart
Metaphor
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
What quotes add to a story

28. 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
grammar and style
Principles of service journalism
Feature well (magazines)

29. What word should be used in attribution?
How well does it say it?
Race
said
Listservs

30. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Conversation model
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Criteria to evaluate stories

31. What's the key to plural possessives?
Listservs
Pluralize then make it possessive
Attribution
grammar and style

32. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
Guidelines for photo captions
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Inverted pyramid
Service journalism

33. Qualified privilege
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Distinct tone and identity
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Pluralize then make it possessive

34. Public editor
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Fairness - ethics - decency
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Push technology

35. Subordinating conjunctions
Navigate so users can find info
General rules about direct quotes
Kinds of blurbs
Link unequal sentence elements

36. 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
Niche
grammar and style
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

37. When are commas used?
Creative Titles (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.
Photo captions
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

38. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Attribution
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Usenet
Redundancy

39. 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
Bias
Coverlines
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Service journalism

40. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Fact checking
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
When to use direct quotes

41. Correlative conjunctions
Feeds/wire
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Set up lead
Usenet

42. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Metaphor
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Truth.
What quotes add to a story

43. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
Niche
Race
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Civic journalism

44. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.
Creative Titles (magazines)
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Less than half of the U.S. population
Layering

45. May be colorful but may be understood by only certain demographic groups.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Slang
Kinds of blurbs
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

46. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Listservs
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
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

47. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Conversation model
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
External blurbs (magazines)
Bias

48. Style
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

49. When should the time element appear?
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Passive voice
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Devices and techniques for service journalism

50. Loopwhole journalism
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Civic journalism
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings