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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. 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?
said
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
How to critique articles
Active voice

2. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
What quotes add to a story
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Basic Journalistic Values
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

3. Titles should promise...
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
If they're relevant to the story
A benefit

4. 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
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Criteria to evaluate stories
Guidelines for photo captions
Jargon

5. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
How well does it say it?

6. Coordinating conjunctions
Guidelines for photo captions
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Push technology

7. When is 'which' used?
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Inverted pyramid

8. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
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
grammar and style
External blurbs (magazines)
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

9. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Parrot

10. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Inverted pyramid
Journalism roles
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

11. Web sites need...
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
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Verbals
Distinct tone and identity

12. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Info boxes
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Metaphor
Feeds/wire

13. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Truth.
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Commercial databases
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

14. What protects journalistics & how?
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Active voice
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

15. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
Feature well (magazines)
Passive voice
Inverted pyramid
Niche

16. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Creative Titles (magazines)
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

17. What's the key to plural possessives?
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
A benefit
Pluralize then make it possessive
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

18. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
Link unequal sentence elements
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Conversation model
Coverlines

19. News values
Creative Titles (magazines)
Conversation model
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Parrot

20. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Usenet
Photo captions
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

21. Fair comment and criticism
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Layering
Partial or orphan quotes
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

22. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
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
Usenet
Criteria to evaluate stories

23. Policy on accusers in sex crimes

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24. 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
Kinds of blurbs
Fact checking
What quotes add to a story
Redundancy

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

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26. Convergence of media
Navigate so users can find info
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
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

27. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Kinds of blurbs
Display copy (magazines)
Info boxes

28. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Ads
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
How well does it say it?
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

29. Speak to communites joined by beliefs and interests - not geography.
grammar and style
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Niche
Link unequal sentence elements

30. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
Repurposing
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Characteristics of news
Pluralize then make it possessive

31. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
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
Passive voice
Redundancy
Only one attribution and after the first sentence

32. When is 'who/whoever' used?
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Heart
A benefit

33. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
General rules about direct quotes

34. 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
If they're relevant to the story
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
To introduce clauses.

35. 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
Basic Journalistic Values
How to critique articles
Characteristics of news
Heart

36. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
To introduce clauses.
Criteria to evaluate stories

37. Style
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 broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Principles of service journalism
Jargon

38. 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
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Service journalism
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
4 elements of covers (magazines)

39. May be colorful but may be understood by only certain demographic groups.
General rules about direct quotes
Slang
Kinds of blurbs
Heart

40. Single words or short phrases. Avoid these because whole sentences are more readable.
Partial or orphan quotes
Distinct tone and identity
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

41. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
Creative Titles (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
Photo captions
General rules about direct quotes

42. Reputation is...

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43. Actual malice

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44. Subordinating conjunctions
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Link unequal sentence elements
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Active voice

45. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
said
If they're relevant to the story
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Ads

46. 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
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Principles of service journalism
Characteristics of news
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

47. Public editor
Criteria to evaluate stories
grammar and style
Bias
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

48. Grammar
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Attribution
Less than half of the U.S. population
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

49. Indefinite pronouns
Verbals
Characteristics of news
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Anyone - either ususally singular

50. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Slang
Coverlines
Verbals
Service journalism