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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Pluralize then make it possessive
grammar and style
How to critique articles
Feeds/wire

2. 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
Fact checking
Attribution
Contemporary news value

3. 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
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Links letters or words together
Fact checking
Why quotes are important

4. When is 'which' used?
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
Partial or orphan quotes
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Covers (magazines)

5. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Inverted pyramid
Heart
Covers (magazines)

6. 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?
Jargon
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
How to critique articles
Partial or orphan quotes

7. Web blog or Journal style
Active voice
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
Info boxes
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community

8. Public editor
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Devices and techniques for service journalism
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Repurposing

9. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Conversation model
Listservs
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
Cliche

10. 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
Guidelines for photo captions
Distinct tone and identity
Heart

11. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Ads
Basic Journalistic Values
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Race

12. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Kinds of blurbs
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Passive voice

13. When is 'that' used?
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Passive voice
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Commercial databases

14. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?
Niche
Service journalism
Criteria to evaluate stories
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

15. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Anyone - either ususally singular
Partial or orphan quotes
Race
Contemporary news value

16. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
What quotes add to a story
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Bias
Fairness - ethics - decency

17. Tape editors
A benefit
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
What quotes add to a story
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

18. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
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
Bias
Verbals
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

19. 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
General rules about direct quotes
Pull
Ads

20. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
If they're relevant to the story
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Partial or orphan quotes

21. Correlative conjunctions
Usenet
Jargon
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

22. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Guidelines for photo captions
4 elements of covers (magazines)

23. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Basic Journalistic Values
A benefit
Photo captions
How to critique articles

24. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
General rules about direct quotes
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Inverted pyramid
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

25. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Quotes in print
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Second day stories
Parrot

26. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Set up lead
4 elements of covers (magazines)
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

27. 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
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Second day stories

28. Story budget

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29. Convergence of media
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
How well does it say it?

30. Publisher/Manager

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31. What are the types of verbals?
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Niche
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

32. Used in broadcasting. it frames a story by telling viewers and listeners what to expect.
Link unequal sentence elements
Principles of service journalism
Civic journalism
Set up lead

33. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Characteristics of news

34. Libel
General rules about direct quotes
Bias
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Creative Titles (magazines)

35. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Cliche
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
What quotes add to a story
Criteria to evaluate stories

36. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Commercial databases
Feeds/wire
Ads
Parrot

37. Actual malice

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

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39. When is 'who/whoever' used?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

40. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
Redundancy
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
How well does it say it?
Coverlines

41. Indefinite pronouns
Second day stories
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Pluralize then make it possessive
Anyone - either ususally singular

42. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
Service journalism
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Explanatory approach
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.

43. Fair comment and criticism
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Verbals
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

44. Dash
How well does it say it?
Cliche
Conversation model
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

45. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.
grammar and style
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Layering
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

46. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Niche
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Race

47. A personal story rather than general.
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Heart
Passive voice
Metaphor

48. Opening spread
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Feature well (magazines)
Listservs
Repurposing

49. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
Attribution
Layering
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Pluralize then make it possessive

50. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
External blurbs (magazines)
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest