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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Actual malice

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2. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?
Listservs
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Criteria to evaluate stories

3. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Passive voice
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

4. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
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
Second day stories
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

5. A personal story rather than general.
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Fairness - ethics - decency
Heart
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

6. Story budget

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7. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
Conversation model
Inverted pyramid
Niche
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

8. Web blog or Journal style
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
External blurbs (magazines)

9. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Why quotes are important
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Feeds/wire

10. Label - such as "contents" (Table is in design aspect only) - Logo - Slogan - Historical reference - Date of publication - Listing of editorial staff - Associate affiliations - Masthead (Post Office info - etc.)
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Table of contents (TOC - 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
Less than half of the U.S. population

11. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
Ads
Why quotes are important
Anyone - either ususally singular
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

12. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Conversation model
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.
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Partial or orphan quotes

13. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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14. 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
Repurposing
Cliche
Basic Journalistic Values
If they're relevant to the story

15. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Listservs
Conversation model
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Guidelines for photo captions

16. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Pull
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

17. Executive producer
Navigate so users can find info
Niche
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
What quotes add to a story

18. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Coverlines
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

19. When should the time element appear?
Journalism roles
Civic journalism
Niche
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

20. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
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
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

21. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
What quotes add to a story
Commercial databases
Race
Explanatory approach

22. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Cliche
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

23. Where should attribution go?
Principles of service journalism
Less than half of the U.S. population
Quotes in print
Only one attribution and after the first sentence

24. What are the standards of a copy editor?
grammar and style
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
said

25. 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
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

26. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
Layering
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Repurposing
grammar and style

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

28. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Race
Push technology
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

29. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Redundancy
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Jargon

30. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Partial or orphan quotes
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

31. Letters to/from editor - Letters from readers - Calendars - Q & A - Cartoons - quotes - Shopping guides
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Display copy (magazines)
Metaphor
Distinct tone and identity

32. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Links letters or words together
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

33. 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
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
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Quotes in print

34. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Ads
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Quotes in print
Basic Journalistic Values

35. Opening spread
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Internal blurbs (magazines)
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Feature well (magazines)

36. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Anyone - either ususally singular
General rules about direct quotes
Inverted pyramid
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

37. Whites will soon make up...
Layering
Passive voice
Less than half of the U.S. population
Slang

38. Dash
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Repurposing

39. Qualified privilege
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
To introduce clauses.
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

40. 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
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Attribution
Display copy (magazines)

41. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Covers (magazines)
Journalism roles
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

42. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
Niche
Mission statement (magazines)
Verbals
Anyone - either ususally singular

43. Correlative conjunctions
Jargon
Criteria to evaluate stories
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations

44. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Conversation model
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
External blurbs (magazines)
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.

45. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
External blurbs (magazines)
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Explanatory approach

46. Loopwhole journalism
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Feeds/wire
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

47. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Race
Commercial databases
Navigate so users can find info

48. Subordinating conjunctions
grammar and style
Feature well (magazines)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Link unequal sentence elements

49. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Less than half of the U.S. population
To introduce clauses.
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Why quotes are important

50. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
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
How well does it say it?
Cliche

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