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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
If they're relevant to the story
Redundancy
Characteristics of news
Quotes in print

2. Public editor
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Active voice
When to use direct quotes

3. 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.
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Metaphor
Pluralize then make it possessive
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process

4. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Ads
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Covers (magazines)
Main person who oversees newsroom personnel (print and online)

5. What's an efficient approach to copy editing?
When to use direct quotes
Guidelines for photo captions
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks

6. What's the order for attribution?
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Explanatory approach
If they're relevant to the story

7. Basic ideals editors must adhere to
Fact checking
Creative Titles (magazines)
Fairness - ethics - decency
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth

8. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
Conversation model
Cliche
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Guidelines for photo captions

9. 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
Guidelines for photo captions
Quotes in print
Inverted pyramid
How to critique articles

10. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Active voice
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
What quotes add to a story
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank

11. Web blog or Journal style
A shorter story that adds details or lists information related to a longer story
An example of grassroots journalism in the online community
Active voice
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info

12. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Anyone - either ususally singular
Attribution
Cliche
grammar and style

13. Should complement the picture - Should connect the picture to the story and get readers to read the story
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
General rules about direct quotes
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Photo captions

14. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Explanatory approach
Principles of service journalism
Most editors don't identify the accusers; the policy is under scrutiny
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

15. When are relative pronouns like who used?
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Usenet
To introduce clauses.
Niche

16. Subordinating conjunctions
relative. The dead can't be libeled.
Coverlines
Link unequal sentence elements
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence

17. When is 'whom/whomever' used?
External blurbs (magazines)
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Parrot
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

18. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
What quotes add to a story
Pluralize then make it possessive
Redundancy
Commercial databases

19. 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
If they're relevant to the story
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Journalism roles
Link unequal sentence elements

20. When is 'which' used?
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
When to use direct quotes
Why quotes are important
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details

21. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Journalism roles
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Devices and techniques for service 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.

22. Adapting stories from print or broadcast to the web.
said
Niche
Repurposing
When the relative pronoun is the subject of the verb.

23. Emphasize the latest angle and play down the exact time of the original event.
Contemporary news value
Attribution
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Second day stories

24. Verb forms that behave like nouns - adjectives or adverbs.
Feeds/wire
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Verbals
Cliche

25. Loopwhole journalism
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
How to critique articles
Kinds of blurbs

26. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Explanatory approach
Bias
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
General rules about direct quotes

27. 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?
Ads
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
How to critique articles

28. 'Totally demolished' is an example of this. This diminishes the conciseness and clarity of writing.
Truth.
Redundancy
How well does it say it?
General rules about direct quotes

29. Correlative conjunctions
Cliche
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
4 elements of covers (magazines)

30. Damages
What quotes add to a story
Cliche
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

31. Alliteration and rhyme - Allusions to books - movies and TV - Songs and music - Phrases and puns - Names become fun to play with
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest
Passive voice
Creative Titles (magazines)
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

32. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Distinct tone and identity
Cliche
Inverted pyramid

33. Fair use
Bias
said
Small portions of copyrighted material may e freely used for informational purposes and commentary - such as use of brief quotations
Creative Titles (magazines)

34. Visual interest - cosumerism - trends - community - inspiration - twists of fate - great writing.
Truth.
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Usenet
Contemporary news value

35. Publisher/Manager

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

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37. Style
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Inverted pyramid
Parrot
Usenet

38. Teaser headlines to shock buyers - usually use numbers to suggest value
Links letters or words together
Slang
Coverlines
First degree words

39. Web sites must be easy to...
Criteria to evaluate stories
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
Table of contents (TOC - magazines)
Navigate so users can find info

40. Fair comment and criticism
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings
Another defense for libel. This applies to editorials - columns and reviews.
Kinds of blurbs
If they're relevant to the story

41. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
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.
Metaphor

42. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Contemporary news value
Jargon
The first amendment. They are not subject to government.
Civic journalism

43. Tape editors
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Niche
Explanatory approach
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

44. Absolute privilege
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
Photo captions
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.

45. Opening spread
Cliche
Feature well (magazines)
Verbals
Inverted pyramid

46. Internal - External - Both provide entry points to story
Kinds of blurbs
Responsible for pulling together text - photos and graphics to create visually appealing pages and web sites
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
grammar and style

47. Executive producer
Conversation model
Oversees personnel for broadcast stations
For essential/restrictive clauses - which is integral to the meaning of the sentence
Attribution

48. 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.
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Second day stories
Listservs
Inverted pyramid

49. Dash
Explanatory approach
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
Less than half of the U.S. population
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.

50. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
Covers (magazines)
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Inverted pyramid
Race