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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Explanatory approach
Coverlines
Civic journalism
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

2. When is 'which' used?
Niche
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Second day stories
Pull

3. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

4. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Creative Titles (magazines)
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
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
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

5. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
First degree words
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Cliche

6. Titles should promise...
A benefit
Quotes in print
Covers (magazines)
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

7. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Passive voice
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Pull
Fairness - ethics - decency

8. 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
Characteristics of news
Pluralize then make it possessive
Slang

9. Why should you use quotes?
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

10. Style
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
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

11. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Conversation model
Usenet
How well does it say it?
Second day stories

12. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Explanatory approach
Second day stories
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

13. Story budget
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Cliche
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Commercial databases

14. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Bias
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
If they're relevant to the story
Parrot

15. Grammar
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Guidelines for photo captions
grammar and style

16. 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
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Basic Journalistic Values
Redundancy
How well does it say it?

17. Qualified privilege
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Photo captions
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Feeds/wire

18. When is 'that' used?
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Jargon
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

19. 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
Second day stories
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Info boxes
Set up lead

20. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Coverlines
Redundancy
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Fact checking

21. When is 'who/whoever' used?
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
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

22. 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
Partial or orphan quotes
Fact checking
Link unequal sentence elements
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

23. 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)
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Anyone - either ususally singular
Inverted pyramid

24. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Active voice
If they're relevant to the story

25. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
First degree words
Pluralize then make it possessive
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Mission statement (magazines)

26. 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
Civic journalism
Service journalism
Redundancy
Link unequal sentence elements

27. Web blog or Journal style
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
Display copy (magazines)
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
A benefit

28. Actual malice
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Parrot
Fairness - ethics - decency

29. 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
Truth.
A benefit
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Display copy (magazines)

30. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
What quotes add to a story
Journalism roles
Partial or orphan quotes

31. When should the time element appear?
Feeds/wire
Second day stories
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

32. 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
4 elements of covers (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
Metaphor
Guidelines for photo captions

33. Fair use
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Anyone - either ususally singular
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

34. Public editor
Commercial databases
Distinct tone and identity
Parrot
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

35. Write a caption for every photo (except studio shots) - Write sentences - Write in the present tense - active voice (on first sentence) - Place captions under the photos - Don't state the obvious - Write more than one line - Make the last line count
Redundancy
Guidelines for photo captions
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Active voice

36. When should references to someone's heritage - gender - sexuality or disability be included?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
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
If they're relevant to the story
Link unequal sentence elements

37. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Layering
Cliche
If they're relevant to the story

38. Whites will soon make up...
Mission statement (magazines)
Explanatory approach
Characteristics of news
Less than half of the U.S. population

39. Reputation is...
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Why quotes are important

40. 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.
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Metaphor
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

41. Subordinating conjunctions
Inverted pyramid
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Link unequal sentence elements
Passive voice

42. Someone says something unique (revolutionary; news worthy) - Someone says something uniquely (colorful language) - Someone important says something important
Repurposing
When to use direct quotes
Kinds of blurbs
Pull

43. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
Cliche
Principles of service journalism
Inverted pyramid
Repurposing

44. 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
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.

45. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Covers (magazines)
Links letters or words together
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Heart

46. Absolute privilege
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
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Usenet
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

47. What word should be used in attribution?
How well does it say it?
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
said
Jargon

48. A personal story rather than general.
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
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Info boxes
Heart

49. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
4 elements of covers (magazines)
What quotes add to a story
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.

50. Web sites must be easy to...
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
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Navigate so users can find info

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