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- 3. Active Index • Understandingnews • Gathering news • Leads • News story structure • Writing news • Layout • Interviews • Features • Sports • Editorials • Reviews • Surveys and opinion polls • STYLE
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- 5. Understanding News • Hard News= significant events • Soft News = less significant but larger audience
- 6. Three factors toall news: •facts •interest •audience
- 7. Six qualities toall news. It must be: •Accurate •Balanced •Objective •Concise •Clear •Timely
- 8. News Values • Timeliness •Proximity • Consequence • Prominence • Drama • Oddity • Conflict • Progress • Emotions • Sex
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- 10. GATHERING NEWS •Research =70% •Writing = 20% •Proofreading = 10%
- 11. Sources of news: •Beats • Handbook • Press Releases • City newspaper • Magazines • Tips • Snack, lunch • Club activities • Extra-curricular activities • Twitter • RSS Feeds • Class Site Portal • Personal Site Portal • City hall • Chamber of Commerce • City Bulletin Boards
- 12. To succeed... •You musthave a Nose for News
- 13. Characteristics of a goodreporter • curiosity • sincere concern and sense of justice • Objectivity
- 14. Characteristics of a goodreporter • Ability to interview strangers • Ability to inspire confidence and make people feel at ease • Wide educational background
- 15. Characteristics of agood reporter • Resourcefulness and persistence • Ability to write and speak standard English • Keen observation • Extensive vocabulary
- 16. 5 Ws andH are basic requirements but not enough to make someone remark, "Wow! Great story." • Dig deep • Make facts interesting
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- 18. All About Leads •Feature the feature • Clothesline WWWWHW • Colored Clothesline -- quote, eye-catcher, comment; • Include as many wwwwwh as possible as soon as possible • Hold one back as a tease
- 19. Begin by determining which ofthe 5Ws&H is the feature to feature
- 20. Leads •"Fire raged througha Chicago elementary school on Sunday, injuring two firemen and destroying a brand new auditorium." Start by featuring the feature with strong words
- 21. "Two firemen were injuredin a Chicago elementary school fire that destroyed a brand new auditorium last Sunday."
- 22. "The brand new auditoriumof a Chicago elementary school was gutted Sunday by a fire that left two firemen injured."
- 23. Avoid starting with articleslike The and A or dates (“When” is seldom the lead)
- 24. Finding the lead •Yuck! The Benicia High School band won first place in state competitions. • Yuck! On Tuesday, October 9, the Benicia High School blah blah blah” • Better! First place went to the Benicia High School band in state competitions. • Better! Benicia wins first place in the state band competition.
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- 26. News article structure: •TheInverted Pyramid
- 27. News article structure: •TheInverted Pyramid Most important Followed by Least im- port- ant
- 28. First things first: Pushthe facts to the front and cut the crap
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- 31. Brevity doesn't excuse reporters frombeing accurate and thorough
- 32. To complete thepyramid • End the story in the last two paragraphs • This way the last paragraph can be cut without affecting the conclusion
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- 34. WRITING NEWS • Whyis this story important? • Is it an advance or a follow-up story? • Do not editorialize • Remain objective • Balance the interviews -- pro con, or authority and reaction quote
- 35. WRITING NEWS • Whyis this story important? • Is it an advance or a follow-up story? • Do not editorialize • Remain objective • Balance the interviews -- pro con, or authority and reaction quote
- 36. WRITING NEWS No Mr.,No Mrs., No Ms. • Introduce every person with a title or description. Then use only the last name • Never use Ms. Miss. Mrs. Or Mr.
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- 38. Layout: dummy up •Dummy the entire newspaper & each dept • Place ads first Headlines Text Pictures Ads
- 39. Layout: ad placement •Place ads across the bottom to rise toward the inside
- 40. Layout: Master Pages •DesignMaster Page with repeating elements: folios, flags, logos, ads
- 41. Layout: headlines •The headlineis the purest condensation of the story’s key focus •It must capture the eye, lure, entice, intrigue reader
- 42. Layout: headlines • Headlinesmust have a strong verb • They must be sentences, not labels • Verb “to be” is omitted: is, was, were, are • We do not say: • President is coming to Benicia
- 43. Layout: headlines vslabels •HL: Earthquake in Turkey kills 20,000 Label: Turkish earthquake • HL: Terrorists bomb Children’s Hospital •Label: Terrorist bombing
- 44. Layout: headlines •Point sizeshould decrease as you go down the page • Headlines must fit over the entire story • Use down style
- 45. Layout: standards • Foliocontains “Page” #, month & year, dept name IN CAPS • Save fancy fonts for ads • Don’t jump more than once • Jumps should NOT continue at the top of the page (if possible)
- 46. Layout: photos •Pictures musthave borders and captions •Pictures must be light and well defined
- 47. Layout: consider breakingup large blocks of text with something… Subtitles Sidebars Pull quotes Bold facing
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- 50. Steps in conducting INTERVIEWS: •Schedule early! • Learn all you can beforehand • Write any and every question you can think of before you go
- 51. Steps in conducting INTERVIEWS: •If important, take note of person's dress, surroundings, mannerisms • Bring a recorder if you can • Always ask permission to use recording device and put it in plain view • Do not stick it in your person's face • Write down counter-numbers when good lines are spoken
- 52. Steps in conducting INTERVIEWS: •When notetaking, maintain a balance: don't bury your nose in your notebook and don't expect to memorize everything. • Jot down the essentials for paraphrasing, and capture precise sentences for quotes • Open-ended Vs close-ended questions
- 53. Steps in conducting INTERVIEWS: •End by asking if the person has anything to say that you haven't asked • Advise that you may condense quotes for clarity, but that you will not change meaning
- 54. Steps in conducting INTERVIEWS: •Get permission to follow-up with a phone call or a drop by if you need any more info • Offer to give them a proof of the story if it's warranted
- 55. Writing the Interview: •AvoidQ & A •Stay out of the picture
- 56. Writing the Interview: •Use"said" synonyms sparingly •Use a quote early •Use plenty of quotes
- 57. Writing the Interview: •Alternatebetween quotes and paraphrases •Use quotes from other people
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- 59. FEATURES • They mayinform, instruct, advise, but their primary purpose is to entertain • They are factual, and can relate to current news/news story • They allow for creativity and individual curiosity • Written in a casual style
- 60. Types of Features: •News feature • Human interest • Character sketch • Writing the Feature: • All the other rules of news writing apply except the feature writer is permitted more creativity in expression and layout
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- 62. Writing Sports Stories: •Don't editorialize, but you have more freedom than regular news reporters. • Support opinions with facts and quotes • Coach quote • Opposing coach quote -- before/after the game. Ask who to watch.
- 63. Sports Layout: • Sportscan have hard, soft news, interviews, surveys, all the elements of the entire paper • Special Note: Triple check name spellings and grade level
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- 65. Editorials & PersonalOpinion •Editorial = staff opinion •Personal = author’s opinion
- 66. Editorials & PersonalOpinion •Opinions based on fact and reason •Opinions with some mass appeal
- 67. Editorials & PersonalOpinion •Avoid over generalization •Use examples and specific, concrete details •Quote sources
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- 69. REVIEWS • Goal isto introduce people to good entertainment and protect them from crap • Reviews are critical analysis • They are sort of like book essays in English class, except the primary question is Did you Like the Book or Not? Why?
- 70. Steps in reviewing: •Takenotebook •Take notes •Get all names: actors, characters, performers, hosts
- 71. Film review: Analysis •plot, • conflict, • setting, • tone, • character, • actor, • editing, • cinematography, • sound track, • popularity, • director, • background information, • similarities to other films, • cost, • genre
- 72. Steps in reviewing: •Writereview immediately after the performance •Support all critical analysis with example
- 73. Steps in reviewing: •Don'twrite a PLOT SUMMARY! •Write a CRITICAL ANALYSIS
- 74. Steps in reviewing: •Summarizing a story is O.K., but it shouldn't be more than 20% of the story… • …and don’t give away the ending or any other surprises
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- 77. Opinion Polls: • Askone open-ended, controversial or entertaining question to a balanced variety of individuals • Get equal males, females, 9, 10, 11, 12, from different walks of life • toss in an occasional teacher, administrator, janitor or parent
- 78. Opinion Polls: • Gathertwice as many responses as you intend to publish • Extract the best quotes and organize them • Check name spelling and grade level
- 79. Questionnaire Surveys: • Devisea topic • Create a list of opinion and value questions on a related topic • Agree/disagree, for/against, most/least important • Format the questionnaire so two fit on one 8x11 paper • Distribute across campus in an organized fashion
- 80. Questionnaire Surveys: •Statistical Significance beginsat 10-percent •Distribute enough questionnaires to gather 15-percent
- 81. Questionnaire Surveys: •Survey ofjust freshmen would require 20-percent of freshmen only •Survey of teachers would require 30-percent
- 82. Questionnaire Surveys: • Finishearly because you must • Tabulate the results and determine percentages • Submit your survey results to me
- 83. Questionnaire Surveys: •Edit inthe questions that elicited the best responses •Layout the page yourself
- 84. Questionnaire Surveys: • Writean intro paragraph that explains the nature and purpose of the survey and how many votes you tabulated. Interpret the results. What was the overall outcome of your findings, and were there any surprises
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- 86. Every newspaper setsa style for consistency of design and word use • In many ways it simply follows traditional grammatical, mechanical rules
- 87. Titles of apposition •Short titles go before a name in caps: Principal Bob Jones • Long titles go after a name, in low case: Mike Bowers, director of personnel relations
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- 89. All titles thatprecede names •Principal Jones •Coach Hayes •President Smith
- 90. First and allwords in titles except for articles, prepositions of one to three letters, and conjunctions •The Holiday Collection of Songs and Poems -- book •“The Man With Time to Spare” -- short story
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- 93. Sections of theCountry but not directions •She lived in the South •She moved south for the winter
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- 96. Grade levels ONLYWHEN followed by the word Class •The Freshman Class has closed campus •(but The freshmen have closed campus)
- 97. Specific Buildings •World TradeCenter •Pentagon •The Chrysler Building •The Bay Bridge
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- 99. Schools (not simply middleschool or high school) • Benicia High School competed in the games against Benicia Middle School • The high school competed in the games against the middle school. • Mary Farmar Robert Semple
- 100. Colleges •Brigham Young •William andMary •Brown University
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- 102. Geographical names •Hudson River •Mt.Shasta •The Osarks
- 103. Names of specificcourses (usually followed by number or letter) •American History I (but American history) •History 101 (but history) •Math B ( but math)
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- 105. Words or abrev.Like • No. Fig. Chart Chapter when followed by a number • No. 7 • Chart 16 • Chapter 1 • Fig. 32
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- 107. Titles that follownames •Ron Wheat, vice principal •Ron Wheat, athletics director
- 108. Parts of time •a.m.p.m. •o'clock
- 109. Seasons •winter spring summer fall •(butOld Man Winter)
- 110. Rooms, offices, buildings,unless they have a proper name • The journalism lab • The Gibbs Memorial Journalism Lab • The gymnasium • The Annette O'Connor Memorial Gymnasium
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- 112. Descriptive or occupational wordsused as titles •comedian Jerry Sienfeld •pitcher Nolan Ryan •actress Reese Witherspoon
- 113. Title modifiers •Such asformer President Clinton, the late Princess Diana
- 114. College degrees when spelledout •master of arts degree •bachelor of science
- 115. ABBREVATIONS •Avoid all butstandard abbreviations
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- 117. Names that arewell known as abbreviations • YMCA, PTA, FBI, BHS, NASA •(remove the periods and write it as a word)
- 118. Certain titles whenthey precede names •Dr. •Rev. (always preceded by "the" if spelled out) •The Reverend Jessie Jackson
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- 120. Names of stateswhen they follow names of cities •(except short states like Ohio or Utah) •Madison, Wis.; Buffalo, N.Y.; but Des Moines, Iowa
- 121. Names of monthswhen followed by a date (except short months -- April, May, June, July) •Jan. 27, 1954
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- 123. Do Not Abbreviatethe Following: • State names • Titles following a name • Days of the week • States when used without a city • Use the word percent (use % only in tabular material or in headlines following a number)
- 124. Do Not Abbreviatethe Following: • Department • Christmas • 1999 not '99 (But Heather Deal, '99) • United States as a noun, abbreviate it as an adjective • U.S. history
- 125. DEALING WITH NUMBERS •Spell outnumbers up to and including nine. Then use digits •Seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13
- 126. Exception: always usedigits to write • Dates • Scores • Addresses • Ages • Time • Money • April 7, 2000 • Benicia 26, Concord 2 • 9 Pine Street • 7 years old • 4 o'clock • 5 cents
- 127. Do not begina sentence with digits • Don't say: 25 students missed the deadline • Say: Twenty-five students missed the deadline • Or: A total of 25 students missed the deadline
- 128. Do not used, rd, st, or th in dates • Dec. 11, 1941, not Dec. 11th, 1941 • June 3, 2000 not June 3rd, 2000 • Streets are OK. 3rd Street, 11th Avenue
- 129. When two numbersare used together, avoid confusion by spelling out the first, whether the number is above or below nine • Don't say: 14 4-year-old kids • Say: fourteen 4-year-old kids
- 130. In a listusing numbers below and above nine, use digits for all: • Attending were 2 from the elementary school, 13 from the middle school, and 9 from the high school
- 131. For sums ofmoney below one dollar, use digits and the word "cents" •10 cents, not $.10
- 132. Do not usezeros when giving the exact hour or an even number of dollars •4 o'clock, not 4:00 o'clock •$6 not $6.00
- 133. For numbers offour or more digits, use a comma •1,000 64,500
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- 135. Comma •Do not usea comma before the word and in a series •Red, white and blue. Members included Lewis, Clark and Upton
- 136. Do not usea comma before Jr. in a name •William Strunk Jr.
- 137. Use the semicolonin lists where the individual items contain commas. • The committee included Mary Ladd, chairperson; Oliver Greenwood, treasurer; and Nellie Kim, secretary. • They brought with them from New Orleans a box of gumbo; a large, green suitcase; and a change of clothes.
- 138. Quotation Marks • Periodsand commas always go inside the quotation mark. • The quarterback said, “That last tackle hurt.” • “That last tackle hurt,” said the quarterback.
- 139. Quotation Marks • Colonsand semicolons always go outside the quotation mark. • Here are the “Articles of Confederation”: blah blah blah • He played “Yesterday”; it was off-key.
- 140. Quotation Marks • Questionmarks and exclamation marks go inside or outside, depending… • John asked, “What are you doing?” • Who said, “What are you doing”? • Run when you hear the word “Fire”! • We ran when someone yelled, “Fire!”
- 141. Use quotation marksaround short things: one- act plays, song titles, short stories, speeches, sit coms, 1/2-hour T.V. shows. poems. • “The Misfit” one-act play • “Yesterday” song • “To Build a Fire” short story • “I Have a Dream” speech • “Just Shoot Me” sit-com • “America” poem
- 142. Use italics onlarge things: three- and five-act plays, novels, motion pictures, newspapers, ships,CDs • Hamlet • Gone with the Wind • Saving Private Ryan • The White Album • USS Port Royal • The Paw
- 143. Italics • Use themon foreign words that have not become an integral part of English • The de facto standard was followed. • Use them on photo captions
- 144. Do not putquotation marks around popular slang expressions like "groovy."
- 145. Apostrophes • Use 'after plural nouns to show possession oThe students' handbook • Use 's after singular nouns to show possession. oThe student's handbook
- 146. To ALL sportswriters: It's the girls' basketball team, not the girl’s basketball team.
- 147. Use apostrophe whenyou omit a letter •I'm from the class of '71. •I like rock 'n' roll. •Don't forget the contractions.
- 148. Use 's toform plurals of single letters and numbers •She got all a's and b's.
- 149. Do not usethe apostrophe for plurals of numbers or multiple- letter combinations •1960s •ABCs
- 150. Omit the apostrophein names of organizations when the possessive case is implied and in certain geographic designations •Citizens League •Actors Guild •Pikes Peak
- 151. HYPHEN •Use hyphens incompound numbers and fractions •Forty-five, three-fourths
- 152. Use hyphens insuch words as •Vice-principal •vice-president
- 153. Use a hyphenon compound adjectives used to modify a noun • The two-sided issue; the double-edged sword; the 8-year-old boy • (not for multiple adjectives. The old, tired argument. The late, exhausted student) • (not for adverb ending in ly • The smartly dressed man
- 154. Use two hyphenswith spaces at each end -- to represent a dash. • Use a dash to show long apposition. • The quarterback -- a man short on energy but long on determination -- finished the game with a touchdown pass.
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- 156. Big no no: Slander,Liable, Profanity, Incite to Riot
- 157. extra school-news precautions: noflippant, positive or enticing references can be made to the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or illicit sex
- 158. Say all thepositive you want about a person. Negative comments require you to show the story to the person and give them an opportunity to respond
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