News reporting vocabulary

Match the collocations

• revenue

• generate

• viral

• attention

• span

• go

• awareness

• raise

• headlines

• clickbait

I’m responsible for creating all those ___________ headlines that attract attention.

• corruption

• clickbait

• attention

• awareness

If the posts I write ____ viral, that could mean hundreds of thousands of page views, which generates more advertising revenue for the news site.

Articles published online need to be very brief because everyone has such a short attention _____ these days.

• disorder

• light

• deficit

• span

I’m helping to _________ awareness of important issues.

Match the collocations

• my sources

• hit

• light on

• shed

• the headlines

• in the public

• both sides of the story

• verify

• interest

• present

The articles I write rarely ____ much light on the key issues that have hit the headlines.

I’d love to cover traditional news stories which are in the ______ interest, where I could expose corruption .

• public

• personal

• best

• awareness

I’d also prefer to have the time to verify my sources or the space to _______ both sides of the story.

Match the words with their definitions

• newsworthy

• very sad

• heartbreaking

• includes strong criticism of someone or something

• balanced

• Considering all sides equally

• hard-hitting

• unusual in an interesting way

• quirky

• interesting enough to be reported