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News And Mag Editing Basics

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1. Label - such as "contents" (Table is in design aspect only) - Logo - Slogan - Historical reference - Date of publication - Listing of editorial staff - Associate affiliations - Masthead (Post Office info - etc.)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)
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Navigate so users can find info
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts

2. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning
Verbals
Cliche
Characteristics of news

3. 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
Display copy (magazines)
Front of book (FOB - magazines)
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
Ads

4. What are the standards of a copy editor?
Link sentence elements of equal grammaical status or rank
said
grammar and style
Link unequal sentence elements

5. Publisher/Manager

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6. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.
Jargon
Active voice
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event
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

7. Credibility by telling exactly what witnesses see - experts say - etc. - Enliven and dramatize - Reveal personality
Layering
Info boxes
What quotes add to a story
Ads

8. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.
Explanatory approach
For nonessential (non-restrictive) clauses set off by commas & adds details
Info boxes
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings

9. Damages
Explanatory approach
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Only one attribution and after the first sentence
Feature well (magazines)

10. Where should attribution go?
Link unequal sentence elements
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Coverlines
Only one attribution and after the first sentence

11. Editors must be able to idenify this in stories that can result in imnbalance or offensive langugage.
Public figures must prove this. It's a reckless disregard for the truth.
Bias
Push technology
Why quotes are important

12. News values
Damage to reputation caused by publisheng or airing false info
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Redundancy
Conflict - impact - proximity - timeliness - prominence - novelty - audience interest

13. Grammar
Push technology
Verbals
Principles of service journalism
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

14. Dash
Used to set apart a word or phrase - usually for emphasis. Should be used sparingly.
Niche
Display copy (magazines)
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

15. Qualified privilege
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Protects the media in reporting what people say in governmental meetings
Covers (magazines)
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play

16. Convergence of media
How to critique articles
said
Internal blurbs (magazines)
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable

17. Shouldn't be able to put a dollar bill on a page and not see some type of blurb
Journalism roles
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Dollar bill rule(magazines)
Info boxes

18. 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
Link unequal sentence elements
Monetary compensation. Can be gained when individuals protect their reputation against false claims and invasion of privacy. Sue media in civil courts
Truth.

19. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy
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
Principles of service journalism
Repurposing

20. What are the types of verbals?
Internal blurbs (magazines)
Redundancy
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
grammar and style

21. What's the order for attribution?
Covers (magazines)
When to use direct quotes
Noun verb. Ex: Jayne said
What quotes add to a story

22. 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
Inverted pyramid
4 elements of covers (magazines)
Fact checking
Combine taped and live reports to create compelling news reports and may also do substantial writing or rewriting of stories

23. Story budget

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24. Avoid using it unless it's relevant.
overlapping media because of the blurring of media by the web and 24/7 cable
Race
Early in the story to let the audience know when the even occurred. Positioning is important for clarity and smoothness.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.

25. Collective noun
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.
A collection of people or things behaving as a single unit. They take singular verbs.
Devices and techniques for service journalism

26. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?
Fairness - ethics - decency
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Contemporary news value
A broader set of guidelines to establish consistency in use of capital letters - abbreviations and variant spellings

27. Public editor
General rules about direct quotes
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
Service journalism
Bias

28. Correlative conjunctions
Less than half of the U.S. population
Active voice
Link equal elements but always come in pairs
Niche

29. 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
If they're relevant to the story
Principles of service journalism
Verbals
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase

30. When are relative pronouns like who used?
Internal blurbs (magazines)
To introduce clauses.
Fact checking
Criteria to evaluate stories

31. Do not change anything inside quote marks (Exception: punctuation and spelling) - Never put quote marks around indirect quotes
General rules about direct quotes
When the pronoun is the object of the verb or phrase
Kinds of blurbs
Push technology

32. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.
1. sense of balance/diversity 2. economics of balance 3. sense of place 4. sense of depth
Usenet
Inverted pyramid
Quotes in print

33. They are direct (chance for sources to connect w/ readers) - They are nuanced (spokesmen say things particularly)
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
Feeds/wire
Repurposing
Why quotes are important

34. What's the key to plural possessives?
A liaison with audience to help a newsroom define its mission and evaluate its performace - as well as helping readers understand the editorial process
grammar and style
Pluralize then make it possessive
Quotes in print

35. Subordinating conjunctions
Basic Journalistic Values
Link unequal sentence elements
A benefit
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution

36. When should the time element appear?
Slang
Links letters or words together
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

37. 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
Explanatory approach
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
Jargon
Internal blurbs (magazines)

38. Agenda Setting (sets the agenda) - Gatekeeping - Watchdog - Verification - Marketplace of Ideas - Mobilizers -Public journalism - Developmental journalism
Journalism roles
Pluralize then make it possessive
Navigate so users can find info
Usenet

39. Actual malice

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40. Indefinite pronouns
Civic journalism
Anyone - either ususally singular
Info boxes
Front of book (FOB - magazines)

41. Sast electronic libraries that provide reliable info ro journalists through keyword searches.
Contemporary news value
Quotes in print
Parrot
Commercial databases

42. Usually preferable in news writing because it usually requires fewer wrods and makes it clear who is doing what to whom.
Infinitives - participles and gerunds
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
Active voice
Guidelines for photo captions

43. Execution (technique - creativity - etc.)
How well does it say it?
Feature well (magazines)
Pluralize then make it possessive
Niche

44. 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.
working from large blocks to smaller blocks
Feeds/wire
Listservs
Body of rules governing how we build sentences to establish meaning

45. Has everything to do w/ branding a magazine - Sense of focus - readers - personality (MS)
Partial or orphan quotes
Covers (magazines)
4 elements of covers (magazines)
If they're relevant to the story

46. Used in broadcasting. it frames a story by telling viewers and listeners what to expect.
Anyone - either ususally singular
Before end-quotation marks. If a quotation goes longer than one paragraph - do not put quotation marks at the end of the first paragraph.
Set up lead
Lists the stories - photos and graphics for the day's paper or newscast and helps editors organize coverage of a major event

47. What's the exception to the order of attribution?
Given to public officals so they are free to speak their minds freely during official proceedings
A long title description of the speaker is included in attribution
Usenet
said

48. Timeliness - Proximity - Prominence - Consequence - Rarity - Human Interest
A benefit
Race
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
Characteristics of news

49. Cover = store front - TOC = menu - FOB = appetizer - Feature = entree - BOB = dessert
Explanatory approach
Restaurant analogy (magazines)
If they're relevant to the story
Parrot

50. Loopwhole journalism
News reports that just barely stay inside the boundaries of accuracy but fall short of fair play
Less than half of the U.S. population
Feature well (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