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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Opening spread
Links letters or words together
Push technology
Ads
Feature well (magazines)

2. Absolute privilege
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Jargon
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
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny

3. 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
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Inverted pyramid
Principles of service journalism

4. 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.
Partial or orphan quotes
How well does it say it?
Niche
Listservs

5. Qualified privilege
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Race
General rules about direct quotes
Second day stories

6. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
Why quotes are important
Listservs
Journalism roles
First degree words

7. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
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
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

8. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Kinds of blurbs
Commercial databases
Explanatory approach
Usenet

9. Managing editor
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Quotes in print
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Repurposing

10. Executive producer
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

11. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

12. Fair use
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Passive voice
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Attribution

13. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
Bias
Slang
Devices and techniques for service journalism
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence

14. Publisher/Manager

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15. 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
Navigate so users can find info
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Verbals

16. When is 'that' used?
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
First degree words
Attribution

17. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
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
Coverlines
Kinds of blurbs
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

18. What are the types of verbals?
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Why quotes are important

19. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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20. 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
Characteristics of news
Quotes in print
4 elements of covers (magazines)
First degree words

21. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
General rules about direct quotes
Jargon
Passive voice
External blurbs (magazines)

22. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Parrot
Active voice
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
When to use direct quotes

23. 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
Parrot
Commercial databases
To introduce clauses.

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

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25. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Set up lead
Ads
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

26. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
What quotes add to a story
Less than half of the U.S. population
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

27. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Bias
Passive voice
Attribution
Verbals

28. Brings news to you
Usenet
Push technology
Feeds/wire
How well does it say it?

29. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Conversation model
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
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence

30. Hypen
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Links letters or words together
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
How to critique articles

31. Style
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
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
Active voice
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

32. What's the key to plural possessives?
Fact checking
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Pluralize then make it possessive
Distinct tone and identity

33. Steps in the editing process
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
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
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

34. Sidebar
Guidelines for photo captions
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Characteristics of news
Ads

35. Story budget

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36. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Link unequal sentence elements
If they're relevant to the story
Cliche

37. Damages
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
said
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Active voice

38. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
Heart
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
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Quotes in print

39. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
Race
Active voice
Bias
Why quotes are important

40. What protects journalistics & how?
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Bias
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

41. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
General rules about direct quotes
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Fairness - ethics - decency

42. Whites will soon make up...
Link unequal sentence elements
Info boxes
Less than half of the U.S. population
Active voice

43. Dash
Mission statement (magazines)
Navigate so users can find info
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

44. Web blog or Journal style
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Less than half of the U.S. population
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
4 elements of covers (magazines)

45. Convergence of media
Listservs
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
If they're relevant to the story

46. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Feeds/wire
Inverted pyramid
4 elements of covers (magazines)

47. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Civic journalism
Repurposing
Links letters or words together
grammar and style

48. 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 relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Mission statement (magazines)
Photo captions
Inverted pyramid

49. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
Creative Titles (magazines)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Niche

50. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.
Push technology
Links letters or words together
Layering
Jargon

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