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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Managing editor
A benefit
Layering
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Navigate so users can find info

2. 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
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Ads
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Redundancy

3. Style
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Pluralize then make it possessive
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

4. Local sidebars that include details like phone numbers - addresses - etc.
Jargon
Creative Titles (magazines)
Info boxes
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

5. Why should you use quotes?
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
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.
Info boxes
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

6. Letters to/from editor - Letters from readers - Calendars - Q & A - Cartoons - quotes - Shopping guides
Partial or orphan quotes
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Why quotes are important
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

7. 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.
Metaphor
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
When to use direct quotes
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

8. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
Characteristics of news
Info boxes
Verbals
Passive voice

9. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Devices and techniques for service journalism
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
General rules about direct quotes

10. Reputation is...

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11. Web blog or Journal style
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Principles of service journalism
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

12. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Listservs
Feeds/wire
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
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

13. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Partial or orphan quotes
Verbals
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution

14. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
Heart
How well does it say it?
If they're relevant to the story
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.

15. Design/layout editors
Conversation model
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Slang
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

16. 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?
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
How to critique articles
Layering

17. Libel
Truth.
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

18. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
External blurbs (magazines)
Fact checking
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

19. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Repurposing
Commercial databases
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

20. What are the types of verbals?
Distinct tone and identity
How to critique articles
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

21. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Bias
Criteria to evaluate stories
Passive voice
Jargon

22. Fair comment and criticism
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
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Navigate so users can find info
Inverted pyramid

23. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?
Criteria to evaluate stories
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Jargon

24. Where should attribution go?
Bias
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Active voice
Dollar bill rule(magazines)

25. Convergence of media
Quotes in print
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Creative Titles (magazines)

26. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
External blurbs (magazines)
Race
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
To introduce clauses.

27. Dash
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
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
What quotes add to a story
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

28. Sidebar
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Partial or orphan quotes
Conversation model
Devices and techniques for service journalism

29. Whites will soon make up...
Less than half of the U.S. population
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Conversation model

30. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Pull
Explanatory approach
A benefit

31. Titles should promise...
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Contemporary news value
A benefit
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

32. Actual malice

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33. 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.)
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Navigate so users can find info
Redundancy
Usenet

34. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Journalism roles
Jargon
Repurposing
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.

35. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
Fairness - ethics - decency
Parrot
Heart
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

36. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Redundancy
To introduce clauses.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Partial or orphan quotes

37. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
External blurbs (magazines)
Parrot
When to use direct quotes

38. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Second day stories
Truth.
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

39. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
Inverted pyramid
Anyone - either ususally singular
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
To introduce clauses.

40. Damages
Quotes in print
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Niche
A benefit

41. Hypen
Anyone - either ususally singular
Links letters or words together
When to use direct quotes
Attribution

42. Brings news to you
Push technology
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.
said
When to use direct quotes

43. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Photo captions
Redundancy
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
External blurbs (magazines)

44. Story budget

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45. Publisher/Manager

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46. 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
Fairness - ethics - decency
Quotes in print
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
Why quotes are important

47. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Quotes in print
Set up lead
Covers (magazines)
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

48. 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.
Guidelines for photo captions
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Pull
Listservs

49. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
Race
Usenet
Repurposing
said

50. What's the key to plural possessives?
A benefit
Pull
Slang
Pluralize then make it possessive