Final Review

1. Timeliness 

2. Proximity

3. Human Interest

4. Prominence

5. Conflict

6. Interviews

7. Research

8. Quotations

Symbols used to show what the interviewee said.

9. Yes-no question

Close-ended questions that usually end current conversation.

10. follow-up question

Questions that help focus on a specific event or topic of the story when interviewing.

11. Objective writing

12. Transition paragraph

Short paragraphs that help move the topic to the next fluidly.

13. Hard news story

A story focused on the facts and the events of the story in order to immediately explain the situation.

14. Soft news story

A story focused on topics that interest and entertain people rather than current events.

15. Inverted Pyramid

A story format that brings all the main ideas and info. to the beginning (the lede), and places the least important information, such as supporting details, at the end.

16. Third-person point of view

A writing perspective that treats everyone as an individual that said or did something. 

17. 5 Ws and H lead

Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How leads are different types of lead that focus on a certain piece of information (based on what type the lead is).

18. editing

Making changes to the story, making the story better (fixing grammar, changing quotes).

19. attribution


20. paraphrase



21. fragmentary quotation

22. direct quotation

23. partial quotation

24. Uses of quotations 

25. When to use quotations

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired

27. Editorial

A third-person article that expresses an opinion on a certain issue created by the majority vote of the newspaper board.

28. editorial page

A special spot for the editorial to exist in. Can also have letters to the editor concerns shown.

29. columns

Articles that express an opinion, and goes from up to down in newspapers.

30. editorial that criticizes 

An editorial that criticizes certain decisions or situations, and gives solutions to the problem. 


31. editorial that explains

32. editorial that persuades

Persuasive editorial is an editorial  tries to persuade readers to agree with the opinion.

33. letter to the editor

A letter sent to a publication (newspaper, magazine) that conveys issues and complaints readers have on the newspaper.