Final Exam Review

1. Timeliness - The story is about an event or thing that happened recently.

2. Proximity - The story takes place somewhere close to the reader, a known location.

3. Human Interest - A topic that people find interesting.

4. Prominence - The story catches the viewers eye of having potential.

5. Conflict - The story has a situation in which there is a problem or a problem is created.

6. Interviews - The act of having a conversation with a subject of choice to help convey the story.

7. Research - Learning about a topic prior to interviewing or writing the story.

8. Quotations - Giving the person who said the quote full credit for their words, but using what they said to help tell the story.

9. Yes-no question - A question that can be to easily answered by the subjects, tends to not be a good question if it can be answered with a simple yes or no.

10. follow-up question - A question that you ask in response to the person you are interviewing answer that helps get more information out of them.

11. Objective writing - A style of writing that is fact driven.

12. Transition paragraph - A paragraph used to switch the subject of the story or to help add on to what was already stated.

13. Hard news story - A story containing politics or serious subjects.

14. Soft news story - A story containing entertainment and lifestyles.

15. Inverted Pyramid - The pyramid displaying the most newsworthy info, important details, and other general background information.

16. Third-person point of view - A view consisting of no I's and We's, the story is told through a perspective in which the person writing was not where the story took place.

17. 5 Ws and H lead - Who,What,Where,When,Why,How, The beginning statement of a story.

18. editing - Revising and cleaning up a story so it flows and makes more sense.

19. attribution - adding something to the story that helps move it along.

20. paraphrase - To put someone else's words into your own by changing the way the goal of the sentence is said and stated.

21. fragmentary quotation - A quotation that is changed by the journalist, not the original quote.

22. direct quotation - The exact words from the person interviewed.

23. partial quotation - Some of the words said from a person interviewed.

24. Uses of quotations - To help tell the story and see what a persons view on the subject is.

25. When to use quotations - When what the person said will fit with what is being stated.

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired - When they do not relate to what is being said and the information being told through the story.

27. Editorial - A article written by a journalist on a subject with their opinion on it.

28. editorial page - An article expressing the opinion of the editor.

29. columns - A article where a writer expresses their opinion.

30. editorial that criticizes - The writers opinion criticizes the subject or situation.

31. editorial that explains - The writer gives information on a topic along with their opinion.

32. editorial that persuades - The writer tries to make you agree with them on a topic.
33. letter to the editor - A letter sent to editors that contains issues of concern from its readers.