Journalism Basics

What is a lead?

• The conclusion
• Most important part of a story
• The people named in your story
• You are are the lead as the writer

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What is journalism?

• Reading
• Editing
• The writing of newspapers, magazines, and news to be broadcast.
• Violent news story.

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The 6  important questions in journalism are:

• who, what, where, when , why, how
• what do we get to eat?
• What's your name?

A short explanation, or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph

• niche
• caption
• kill
• graphics

Someone who finds and presents information as news to the audiences of newspapers, magazines, radio or television stations or the Internet.

• Journalist
• Reporter
• Anchor
• Researcher

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_________ states who the story is by.

• headline

• subhead

• jumpline

• byline

Gives credit to who took the photo.

• photo caption

• photo

• masthead

• photo credit

News that’s important, that readers need to know; urgent, timely stories about events or conflicts; answers the question what happened is defined as

• Hard news
• Feature
• Opinion
• Fake News

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True or False. You should use words like “claimed,” “announced,” “admitted,” “replied,” instead of “said” when reporting what a source says to you.

• True
• False

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What describes a reporter injecting his or her opinion into an article?

• Attribute
• parenthetical citation
• Feature
• Editorialize