Chapter 3: Defining the News-Vocabulary
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Created by:
PLLFan8 on May 26, 2011
Subjects:
introduction to mass media and communications
Description:
Vocabulary
Classes:
Introduction to Mass Media and Communications
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Balance | The goal of covering all sides of a journalistic story as fairly as possible |
| Beat System | Divides the community into logical areas that produce news |
| Brainstorming | A small-group, idea-generating process that works a on the premise that one word or idea leads to the next and can often be developed into a story topic |
| Budget Meeting | A story planning session for a specific edition or broadcast during which editors present story ideas and compete for space; a major part of the teamwork process in journalism |
| Exchange Issues | Copies of newspapers from other schools received in exchange for copies of your school's newspaper |
| Hard News | News that's important, that readers need to know |
| Local Angle | The part of a story that focuses on your readers' interests |
| Newsbrief Column | A collection of shorter stories, rarely over three paragraphs each, that appears as a unit on the page |
| News Judgment | The process of deciding what's news |
| Objectivity | Being neutral and focusing on facts, not opinions in journalism |
| Scoop | An exclusive story that the other media don't have |
| Soft News | News that's interesting, that entertains readers |
| Story | Any article in a journalism publication or broadcast. A story in this case is fact, not fiction |
| Tally | A list of story assignments for a specific edition or broadcast citing the topic, reporter, and editor, and estimating length |
| Update | Adding fresh information to a story as events continue to develop |
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