News Structure & Leads

Journalists MUST...

• ....make things up.

• ....amuse readers.

• ...remain unbiased.

• ...leave out details.

Being unbiased means...

• ...not allowing personal opinions to influence an article.

• ...being polite at all times.

• ...only writing stories that you are audience will find interesting.

• ...not offending people.

In order to remain unbiased, journalists must...

• ...be kind and polite at all times.

• ...write about your personal opinions.

• ...only write about the facts.

• ...include your own opinion as much as possible.

"Students gathered in the

courtyard to protest new security policies." This sentence is...

• Biased

• Unbiased

"Lots of students turned up to watch football,

which is the worst sport of all" is:

• Biased

• Unbiased

How are facts arranged in inverted-pyramid style?

• from less important to more important

• from more important to less important

• from slowly building to the most interesting facts

• with crucial facts equally distributed throughout the story

When writing a news article using the inverted pyramid structure, the least important information should come...

• At the end of the first paragraph (Lead)

• In the second paragraph (Nutgraf)

• In the end paragraph (Tail)

______ is known as the news structure that is a modification of the inverted pyramid. This form of writing is good for beginner journalist.

• L-Q-T-Q

• L-T-Q-T

• L-Q-T-T

• L-T-T-Q

What do the letters in LQTQ stand for?

• Lunch, Quinoa, Turtle

• Lead, Question, Translation

• Lead, Quote, Transition

• Lead, Question, Transition

Direct quotes can add ___ to a story.

• emotion

• opinions

• life

• all the above.