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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. What are the 5 key tests of libel?

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2. Dash
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
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
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

3. When are relative pronouns like who used?
To introduce clauses.
Pull
Push technology
Usenet

4. Verb forms that behave like nouns - adjectives or adverbs.
Redundancy
Verbals
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

5. Label - such as "contents" (Table is in design aspect only) - Logo - Slogan - Historical reference - Date of publication - Listing of editorial staff - Associate affiliations - Masthead (Post Office info - etc.)
Explanatory approach
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)

6. 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
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Repurposing
Principles of service journalism
Passive voice

7. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Truth.
Coverlines
How well does it say it?
Fact checking

8. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Photo captions
Kinds of blurbs
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Distinct tone and identity

9. What word should be used in attribution?
said
Niche
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
grammar and style

10. Opening spread
Feature well (magazines)
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Slang

11. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Criteria to evaluate stories
Creative Titles (magazines)
Second day stories
Less than half of the U.S. population

12. Coordinating conjunctions
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
If they're relevant to the story
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Coverlines

13. What's the key to plural possessives?
Pluralize then make it possessive
Feeds/wire
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Coverlines

14. Steps in the editing process
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Layering
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
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

15. Design/layout editors
Links letters or words together
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Heart
Ads

16. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.
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
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Conversation model
Second day stories

17. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
External blurbs (magazines)
Fairness - ethics - decency
Repurposing
4 elements of covers (magazines)

18. Whites will soon make up...
Less than half of the U.S. population
said
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Slang

19. Provide a sizeable portion of a publication's revenue.
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Active voice
Ads
How well does it say it?

20. 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
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.

21. Web sites need...
Contemporary news value
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Links letters or words together
Distinct tone and identity

22. Hypen
Slang
Creative Titles (magazines)
Links letters or words together
Restaurant analogy (magazines)

23. Letters to/from editor - Letters from readers - Calendars - Q & A - Cartoons - quotes - Shopping guides
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Race
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Bias

24. 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
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Repurposing
Display copy (magazines)
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story

25. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Fact checking
Photo captions
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

26. What are the types of verbals?
A benefit
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
Devices and techniques for service journalism
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

27. What are the standards of a copy editor?
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
grammar and style

28. 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
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

29. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
First degree words
Redundancy
Metaphor

30. May be colorful but may be understood by only certain demographic groups.
Kinds of blurbs
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Quotes in print
Slang

31. When is 'that' used?
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
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
said
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

32. Used in broadcasting. it frames a story by telling viewers and listeners what to expect.
Set up lead
Distinct tone and identity
Kinds of blurbs
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

33. Collective noun
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Coverlines
Listservs
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

34. Appear outside body copy with the title - deck or subhead
Usenet
Service journalism
External blurbs (magazines)
relative. The dead can't be libeled.

35. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Active voice
Quotes in print
Covers (magazines)
Set up lead

36. Loopwhole journalism
Passive voice
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Infinitives - participles and gerunds

37. A linked collection of onlin bulletin boards organized into specific topics of interest or 'news groups'.
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Parrot
Usenet
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

38. Why are accuracy problems magnified at the local level?
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Devices and techniques for service journalism
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
When to use direct quotes

39. When is 'who/whoever' used?
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
How to critique articles

40. Audiences respond to these words because they convey a precise relationship to their concepts- words like office rather than facility.
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
First degree words
Characteristics of news
Partial or orphan quotes

41. Managing editor
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Usenet
Cliche

42. When are commas used?
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Principles of service journalism
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.
Inverted pyramid

43. Groups 'pull' you to the discussion at a shared site.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Fact checking
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Pull

44. Correlative conjunctions
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.
Ads

45. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
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
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
How well does it say it?
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.

46. Lists (step-by-step; recipes are SJ) - Subheads - Blurbs - Sidebars and boxes - Charts and graphics
Why quotes are important
Pluralize then make it possessive
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
Devices and techniques for service journalism

47. Tape editors
Heart
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories
Ads
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites

48. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Display copy (magazines)
When to use direct quotes
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

49. What's the order for attribution?
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
For emphasis. They are for times when something interesting is said in a unique way--not for routine - mundane - or obvious.
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations

50. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.
Parrot
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Front of book (FOB - magazines)