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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Passive voice
Conversation model
Civic journalism

2. Sidebar
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Verbals
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

3. Web sites need...
Niche
If they're relevant to the story
Distinct tone and identity
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

4. What protects journalistics & how?
Journalism roles
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Photo captions
Metaphor

5. Managing editor
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Link unequal sentence elements

6. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
Anyone - either ususally singular
How well does it say it?
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Commercial databases

7. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Pull
Contemporary news value
Heart

8. 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
To introduce clauses.
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Less than half of the U.S. population
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

9. When is 'which' used?
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
Passive voice
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

10. 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
Display copy (magazines)
Conversation model
Principles of service journalism
Listservs

11. What word should be used in attribution?
Quotes in print
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
said
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info

12. Grammar
Navigate so users can find info
Why quotes are important
Covers (magazines)
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

13. When should the time element appear?
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
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
Active voice
Fact checking

14. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.
Photo captions
Attribution
Distinct tone and identity
Link unequal sentence elements

15. Damages
Commercial databases
Mission statement (magazines)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

16. Absolute privilege
Passive voice
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Characteristics of news

17. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Feeds/wire
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Basic Journalistic Values
Covers (magazines)

18. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Link unequal sentence elements
What quotes add to a story

19. 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
Niche
Journalism roles
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations

20. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
External blurbs (magazines)
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
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
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

21. Publisher/Manager

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22. Opening spread
Repurposing
Passive voice
Feature well (magazines)
Guidelines for photo captions

23. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Links letters or words together
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

24. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Guidelines for photo captions
Jargon
Links letters or words together
Photo captions

25. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
What quotes add to a story
Pull
Kinds of blurbs
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

26. Fair use
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Criteria to evaluate stories
Mission statement (magazines)
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations

27. Visual interest - cosumerism - trends - community - inspiration - twists of fate - great writing.
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
Distinct tone and identity
Contemporary news value
Info boxes

28. Coordinating conjunctions
To introduce clauses.
Contemporary news value
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Basic Journalistic Values

29. Collective noun
Display copy (magazines)
Criteria to evaluate stories
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution

30. Design/layout editors
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Basic Journalistic Values
To introduce clauses.
Slang

31. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Civic journalism
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Redundancy

32. 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
Principles of service journalism
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Covers (magazines)

33. 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
Service journalism
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
External blurbs (magazines)
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

34. 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)
Fairness - ethics - decency
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Niche

35. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Partial or orphan quotes
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

36. What are the standards of a copy editor?
grammar and style
Conversation model
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
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

37. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Active voice
Why quotes are important
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

38. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
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
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
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
Usenet

39. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Criteria to evaluate stories
To introduce clauses.
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Anyone - either ususally singular

40. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
First degree words
Distinct tone and identity
Mission statement (magazines)
Heart

41. Story budget

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42. 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
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
4 elements of covers (magazines)
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Characteristics of news

43. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Bias
Partial or orphan quotes
Repurposing

44. Qualified privilege
Push technology
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Coverlines
Photo captions

45. Dash
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Display copy (magazines)
Feeds/wire
Push technology

46. Whites will soon make up...
If they're relevant to the story
Feature well (magazines)
Contemporary news value
Less than half of the U.S. population

47. What's the order for attribution?
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Explanatory approach
Set up lead
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

48. Why should you use quotes?
Passive voice
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Layering

49. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Characteristics of news

50. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Repurposing
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Attribution
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories