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Use your knowledge of the terms and their definitions to answer the questions below.
- 1.Copy
- A.
Words for a headline
- B.
Any piece of material that makes it to print.
- C.
The belief that what someone says is true
- D.
The writer's name as it appears in the story
- 2.Objectivity
- A.
A writer's ability to stay calm
- B.
The belief that what someone says is true.
- C.
The act of reaching and/or maintaining a goal
- D.
A lack of bias or opinion
- 3.Editorial
- A.
A prominent news story not related to a current event.
- B.
The part of a newspaper or magazine listing pertinent information to readers, such as ownership, publishers, editors, email addresses, etc.
- C.
An article that state's a writer's or the paper's opinion about a particular topic
- D.
A leading article in a newspaper or magazine that delivers timely news to its readers
- 4.Lead
- A.
To guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc
- B.
The first paragraph of a news story; it explains the main idea in a few words.
- C.
Words found in a headline that give the 5W's +H.
- D.
The organizational pattern which information is presented in most news stories (from most important to least important).
- 5.Heading
- A.
Another word for headline
- B.
A main division in a paper
- C.
Something that serves as a head, top, or front
- D.
The writer's name at the beginning of a story
- 6.Subjectivity is...
- 7.Give an example of a feature article (what kind would it be, what things would it talk about?)
- 8.What is a byline?
- 9.What is credibility and why is it important for a journalist?
- 10.What is usually found in the masthead?
- 11.How is hard news different from feature writing? What does it have that features may lack?
- 12.Draw the inverted pyramid. How is it organized?
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