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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Public editor
How to critique articles
Second day stories
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
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. Executive producer
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Photo captions
Passive voice
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

3. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
Kinds of blurbs
Slang
Cliche
Inverted pyramid

4. Subordinating conjunctions
Race
Photo captions
Link unequal sentence elements
How well does it say it?

5. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Bias
Criteria to evaluate stories
Characteristics of news

6. Used in broadcasting. it frames a story by telling viewers and listeners what to expect.
Set up lead
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Pull
Attribution

7. Indefinite pronouns
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Pluralize then make it possessive
Repurposing
Anyone - either ususally singular

8. 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.
Links letters or words together
Race
Cliche

9. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Parrot
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Distinct tone and identity
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny

10. What word should be used in attribution?
said
Link unequal sentence elements
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Truth.

11. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Civic journalism
Metaphor
Coverlines
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

12. Convergence of media
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
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
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

13. Fair comment and criticism
Quotes in print
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Pull

14. Grammar
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Ads
Covers (magazines)
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

15. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
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.
Covers (magazines)
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
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

16. Damages
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
If they're relevant to the story
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Dollar bill rule(magazines)

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

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18. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Niche
Feeds/wire
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution

19. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Second day stories
Commercial databases
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Truth.

20. 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?
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
How to critique articles
How well does it say it?

21. Local sidebars that include details like phone numbers - addresses - etc.
Info boxes
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Kinds of blurbs

22. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
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
Distinct tone and identity
What quotes add to a story
Partial or orphan quotes

23. 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
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
said
Characteristics of news
Internal blurbs (magazines)

24. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Characteristics of news
Display copy (magazines)
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
When to use direct quotes

25. Loopwhole journalism
Repurposing
When to use direct quotes
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Devices and techniques for service journalism

26. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Photo captions
Kinds of blurbs
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Truth.

27. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Guidelines for photo captions
Info boxes
How to critique articles
Conversation model

28. Correlative conjunctions
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
General rules about direct quotes
Link unequal sentence elements

29. In essence - anything from the text but the story (Title - deck - head - subhead - pull quotes - bylines - blurbs - captions - etc.) - Used to draw readers into a story - Stats reinforce display copy and visuals
Inverted pyramid
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Display copy (magazines)
A benefit

30. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
General rules about direct quotes
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Quotes in print

31. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Parrot
Kinds of blurbs
Active voice
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

32. What's the order for attribution?
Niche
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Feature well (magazines)

33. Qualified privilege
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Info boxes
Anyone - either ususally singular

34. Titles should promise...
A benefit
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Links letters or words together
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

35. A statement of purpose that identifies the specific editorial focus of the magazine - who the intended readers are and a definition of its personality
Mission statement (magazines)
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Civic journalism

36. 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
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Push technology
Guidelines for photo captions
Mission statement (magazines)

37. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Devices and techniques for service journalism
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.
4 elements of covers (magazines)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

38. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
General rules about direct quotes
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Attribution
Active voice

39. Someone says something unique (revolutionary; news worthy) - Someone says something uniquely (colorful language) - Someone important says something important
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Niche
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
When to use direct quotes

40. Coordinating conjunctions
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

41. 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.
Listservs
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
When to use direct quotes
Contemporary news value

42. 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
Why quotes are important
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Metaphor
Basic Journalistic Values

43. Story budget

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44. Web blog or Journal style
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
said
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

45. Dash
Second day stories
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Quotes in print
If they're relevant to the story

46. Style
Explanatory approach
Metaphor
Usenet
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

47. 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
Mission statement (magazines)
Fairness - ethics - decency
Truth.

48. When are relative pronouns like who used?
To introduce clauses.
Heart
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
Redundancy

49. Whites will soon make up...
Heart
If they're relevant to the story
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Less than half of the U.S. population

50. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
Race
Niche
Basic Journalistic Values
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.