News reporting vocabulary

Match the collocations

• viral

• attention

• headlines

• clickbait

• revenue

• go

• awareness

• raise

• span

• generate

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

• corruption

• clickbait

• attention

• awareness

If the posts I write (a)   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 (a)   awareness of important issues.

Match the collocations

• light on

• verify

• interest

• present

• the headlines

• hit

• my sources

• in the public

• both sides of the story

• shed

The articles I write rarely (a)   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 (a)   both sides of the story.

Match the words with their definitions

• newsworthy

• Considering all sides equally

• quirky

• includes strong criticism of someone or something

• balanced

• unusual in an interesting way

• hard-hitting

• very sad

• heartbreaking

• interesting enough to be reported