Final Exam Review
1. Timeliness: The newness of the facts.
2. Proximity: The nearness of a given place to your place of publication.
3. Human Interest: The drama that surrounds people involved in an emotional struggle.
4. Prominence: The "newsworthiness" of an individual, organization, or place.
5. Conflict: The meeting of two or more opposing forces. These forces can be physical, emotional, or philosophical.
6. Interviews: One of the most important tools journalists have to obtain information, expand on information from other sources, and clarify facts from others and see things from different perspectives. A conversation of asking questions to elicit facts or statements from the person being asked questions.
7. Research: The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
8. Quotations: The marks that contain a direct and exact transcription of what someone else has said.
9. Yes-No Question: A question that can be answered by a simple yes or no. Not very good for making use of interview time, but good for clarifying facts.
10. Follow-up Question: A question that tails a prior asked question to either expand on the topic or further clarify a fact.
11. Objective Writing: Writing from a standpoint that addresses the issues with facts and logic, lacking in emotion or biases.
12. Transition Paragraph: Either fact, indirect quote, or partial quotes, but they hold the story together and link the paragraphs together.
13. Hard News Story: A hard news story will focus on the bare facts and speed through the story as efficiently as possible, while only stating the honest truth and focusing on objectivity.
14. Soft News Story: A soft news story may focus on something that's a little more entertaining to a reader, something that might be less important than a hard news story, such as a story on a celebrity, or sports, or art.
15. Inverted Pyramid: The inverted pyramid structure of a story is when the most newsworthy information is on the top, the important details are in the middle, and the extra information slowly cuts away into the bottom.
16. Third Person Point of View: The point of view of a person who is not directly in the situation; they are an outsider looking in.
17. 5 W's and H Lead: A lead that contains all of these components; who, what, where, when, why, and how.
18. Editing: Making changes to one's work in order to improve it in some way, shape, or form.
19. Attribution: Identifies the source of a quote.
20. Paraphrase: The restatement or rewording of a paragraph or text, in order to borrow, clarify, or expand on information without plagiarizing.
21. Fragmentary Quotation: Part of a quote that is not a complete sentence.
22. Direct Quotation: A quote taken directly from the person's mouth,
23. Partial Quotation: Having a part of the quote in the sentence, embedded, somewhat.
24. Uses of Quotations: You use quotations when you are quoting someone.
25. When to Use Quotations: When taking some words directly from a person's mouth.
26. When Quotations Are Unnecessary or Not Desired: When paraphrasing, quotations are not desired.
27. Editorial: Opinion/Commentary stories that come from the voices of the newspaper.
28. Editorial Page: Editorials will be posted on the editorial page.
29. Newspaper column: A recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in a few columns.
30. Editorial That Criticizes: This is an editorial where the general opinion of the newspaper is to give negative input on a relevant topic/issue.
31. Editorial That Explains: An editorial that will provide their point of view and/or understanding of a certain situation based on what they know.
32. Editorial That Persuades: An editorial that will attempt to sway the audience into a certain opinion,
33. Letter to the Editor: A letter sent to the editor by the audience to criticize, ask, or clarify anything from the news article the editor published.
2. Proximity: The nearness of a given place to your place of publication.
3. Human Interest: The drama that surrounds people involved in an emotional struggle.
4. Prominence: The "newsworthiness" of an individual, organization, or place.
5. Conflict: The meeting of two or more opposing forces. These forces can be physical, emotional, or philosophical.
6. Interviews: One of the most important tools journalists have to obtain information, expand on information from other sources, and clarify facts from others and see things from different perspectives. A conversation of asking questions to elicit facts or statements from the person being asked questions.
7. Research: The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
8. Quotations: The marks that contain a direct and exact transcription of what someone else has said.
9. Yes-No Question: A question that can be answered by a simple yes or no. Not very good for making use of interview time, but good for clarifying facts.
10. Follow-up Question: A question that tails a prior asked question to either expand on the topic or further clarify a fact.
11. Objective Writing: Writing from a standpoint that addresses the issues with facts and logic, lacking in emotion or biases.
12. Transition Paragraph: Either fact, indirect quote, or partial quotes, but they hold the story together and link the paragraphs together.
13. Hard News Story: A hard news story will focus on the bare facts and speed through the story as efficiently as possible, while only stating the honest truth and focusing on objectivity.
14. Soft News Story: A soft news story may focus on something that's a little more entertaining to a reader, something that might be less important than a hard news story, such as a story on a celebrity, or sports, or art.
15. Inverted Pyramid: The inverted pyramid structure of a story is when the most newsworthy information is on the top, the important details are in the middle, and the extra information slowly cuts away into the bottom.
16. Third Person Point of View: The point of view of a person who is not directly in the situation; they are an outsider looking in.
17. 5 W's and H Lead: A lead that contains all of these components; who, what, where, when, why, and how.
18. Editing: Making changes to one's work in order to improve it in some way, shape, or form.
19. Attribution: Identifies the source of a quote.
20. Paraphrase: The restatement or rewording of a paragraph or text, in order to borrow, clarify, or expand on information without plagiarizing.
21. Fragmentary Quotation: Part of a quote that is not a complete sentence.
22. Direct Quotation: A quote taken directly from the person's mouth,
23. Partial Quotation: Having a part of the quote in the sentence, embedded, somewhat.
24. Uses of Quotations: You use quotations when you are quoting someone.
25. When to Use Quotations: When taking some words directly from a person's mouth.
26. When Quotations Are Unnecessary or Not Desired: When paraphrasing, quotations are not desired.
27. Editorial: Opinion/Commentary stories that come from the voices of the newspaper.
28. Editorial Page: Editorials will be posted on the editorial page.
29. Newspaper column: A recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in a few columns.
30. Editorial That Criticizes: This is an editorial where the general opinion of the newspaper is to give negative input on a relevant topic/issue.
31. Editorial That Explains: An editorial that will provide their point of view and/or understanding of a certain situation based on what they know.
32. Editorial That Persuades: An editorial that will attempt to sway the audience into a certain opinion,
33. Letter to the Editor: A letter sent to the editor by the audience to criticize, ask, or clarify anything from the news article the editor published.
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