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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Reputation is...

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2. Web sites must be easy to...
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Navigate so users can find info
Redundancy

3. What are the standards of a copy editor?
grammar and style
Usenet
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
relative. The dead can't be libeled.

4. 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?
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
How to critique articles

5. 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
External blurbs (magazines)
Principles of service journalism
Verbals
Quotes in print

6. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Active voice
Bias

7. 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
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Passive voice

8. Fair comment and criticism
Info boxes
Push technology
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

9. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
First degree words
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Repurposing
Basic Journalistic Values

10. What's the key to plural possessives?
Principles of service journalism
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Pluralize then make it possessive
Active voice

11. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.
Layering
Race
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Coverlines

12. Emerging style for journalism on local communities.
Info boxes
Metaphor
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Civic journalism

13. Absolute privilege
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
A benefit
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings

14. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Link unequal sentence elements
Jargon
Usenet
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

15. Style
Heart
Creative Titles (magazines)
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

16. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Creative Titles (magazines)
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Distinct tone and identity

17. 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
Basic Journalistic Values
Fact checking
Covers (magazines)
Display copy (magazines)

18. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Active voice
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Niche
Photo captions

19. When are commas used?
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
How well does it say it?
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.
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

20. 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
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Info boxes
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

21. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Repurposing
Second day stories
Link unequal sentence elements

22. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.
Guidelines for photo captions
Feeds/wire
Navigate so users can find info
said

23. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Less than half of the U.S. population
Parrot
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Partial or orphan quotes

24. Executive producer
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
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Contemporary news value
4 elements of covers (magazines)

25. 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
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
General rules about direct quotes
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Guidelines for photo captions

26. Managing editor
Service journalism
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

27. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Mission statement (magazines)
Metaphor

28. A personal story rather than general.
Commercial databases
Layering
To introduce clauses.
Heart

29. What protects journalistics & how?
Fact checking
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
First degree words
Second day stories

30. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Journalism roles
grammar and style
To introduce clauses.
Listservs

31. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Active voice
Anyone - either ususally singular
Characteristics of news
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said

32. Titles should promise...
Criteria to evaluate stories
A benefit
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Attribution

33. Loopwhole journalism
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

34. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Niche
Links letters or words together
Kinds of blurbs
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

35. Correlative conjunctions
Pull
Less than half of the U.S. population
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Link equal elements but always come in pairs

36. 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
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Pull
If they're relevant to the story

37. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
Listservs
Pull
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

38. 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
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Metaphor
Internal blurbs (magazines)

39. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Feeds/wire
Race
Redundancy
grammar and style

40. Design/layout editors
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Repurposing
External blurbs (magazines)
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

41. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
General rules about direct quotes
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
If they're relevant to the story
Fairness - ethics - decency

42. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
External blurbs (magazines)
How well does it say it?
Why quotes are important
First degree words

43. Actual malice

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44. Sidebar
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
Truth.
Fairness - ethics - decency
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

45. This may be appropriate to emphasize the details of the action rather than the one who is responsible.
Heart
Passive voice
Devices and techniques for service journalism
First degree words

46. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
grammar and style
Conversation model
Service journalism
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

47. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
To introduce clauses.
Cliche
Basic Journalistic Values
Fairness - ethics - decency

48. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
Metaphor
External blurbs (magazines)
To introduce clauses.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

49. When is 'that' used?
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Conversation model
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.

50. Hypen
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Quotes in print
Links letters or words together