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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. A personal story rather than general.
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Criteria to evaluate stories
Info boxes
Heart

2. 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
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Redundancy
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Service journalism

3. When is 'who/whoever' used?
Coverlines
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

4. Brings news to you
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Kinds of blurbs
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Push technology

5. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
To introduce clauses.
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

6. Why should you use quotes?
Navigate so users can find info
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
First degree words
Parrot

7. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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8. 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)
Partial or orphan quotes
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Layering

9. What's the order for attribution?
Less than half of the U.S. population
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Active voice

10. Sidebar
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Why quotes are important
How well does it say it?
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

11. Indefinite pronouns
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Anyone - either ususally singular
A benefit

12. Design/layout editors
How to critique articles
Explanatory approach
Passive voice
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

13. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Commercial databases
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Layering
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence

14. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Creative Titles (magazines)
Covers (magazines)
Set up lead
General rules about direct quotes

15. 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
Quotes in print
Heart
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

16. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Journalism roles

17. When are commas used?
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.
Criteria to evaluate stories
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Links letters or words together

18. Visual interest - cosumerism - trends - community - inspiration - twists of fate - great writing.
Distinct tone and identity
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Metaphor
Contemporary news value

19. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Ads
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
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

20. Executive producer
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Repurposing
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

21. Reputation is...

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22. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
How well does it say it?
Redundancy
Only one attribution and after the first sentence

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

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24. Policy on accusers in sex crimes

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25. Tape editors
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
Link unequal sentence elements
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Kinds of blurbs

26. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Civic journalism
grammar and style
Active voice
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings

27. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
Fairness - ethics - decency
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Redundancy
External blurbs (magazines)

28. Someone says something unique (revolutionary; news worthy) - Someone says something uniquely (colorful language) - Someone important says something important
Criteria to evaluate stories
When to use direct quotes
Bias
Repurposing

29. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Kinds of blurbs
Inverted pyramid
Restaurant analogy (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

30. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Journalism roles
Quotes in print
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.

31. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Passive voice
Bias
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

32. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Quotes in print
Second day stories
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Why quotes are important

33. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
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
Why quotes are important
External blurbs (magazines)
How well does it say it?

34. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Partial or orphan quotes
Link unequal sentence elements
4 elements of covers (magazines)
General rules about direct quotes

35. 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.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Metaphor
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings

36. 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
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Characteristics of news
Listservs

37. What are the types of verbals?
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
Push technology
Inverted pyramid
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

38. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
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
Commercial databases
Covers (magazines)
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info

39. What word should be used in attribution?
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
said
Navigate so users can find info
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

40. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Fairness - ethics - decency
Distinct tone and identity
Conversation model
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

41. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Bias
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Pull

42. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Parrot
Set up lead
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

43. Coordinating conjunctions
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Quotes in print
Service journalism

44. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
How well does it say it?
Principles of service journalism
Fairness - ethics - decency
Explanatory approach

45. Titles should promise...
A benefit
Coverlines
General rules about direct quotes
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

46. Convergence of media
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
First degree words

47. Verb forms that behave like nouns - adjectives or adverbs.
A benefit
Verbals
If they're relevant to the story
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

48. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Mission statement (magazines)
Active voice
Explanatory approach
Pull

49. Hypen
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Links letters or words together
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Fairness - ethics - decency

50. 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
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Fact checking
Layering
Internal blurbs (magazines)