Journalism Terms

nearness of you to the event

is it current

two people or two ideas in opposition

the importance of the act: is it important?

shows unusual, evokes feelings

tinker: 8th graders wore black armbands

Bethel: game speech filled with profanity

morse: kids showed sign "bong hits for jesus at a "scjool outing"

• - the broad part is where the main facts go
• - as the pyramid narrows facts become less important
• -the facts at the point may not be essential
• -it is a natural way to tell a story
• -enables readers to get essential info without reading the whole story
• - it is an aid for the headline writer
• - it makes it easy to trim a story into an allotted space

• many deal with individuals
• every person is worthy of one
• tries to answer the questions: who is this person anyway?What does he or she do on the weekends?What are their opinions on politics? the environment? sports? what are their goals?
• in this type of feature not substitute for hard work
• gives writer chance to exercise imagination

• tells the reader exactly what a speaker said
• your not saying its close or almost
• needs to be precise and logical in a prepared spoken presentation, but humans don't talk that way
• sanitize quote not alter it by taking out profane words and don't make your subject seem illiterate because of their grammer

• feature writing traits:
• - prime purpose to entertain
• -any length, long to short
• -factual and require reporting
• -may or may not be timely
• feature traits:
• -well organized: beginning middle and end
• -rarely have a news lead
• -has a theme
• elements of fiction: suspense, surprise, dialogue, description, climax
• -writer uses imagination, but it is not fiction
• -quote filled: let the writer feel like they know the subject