Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is factual writing?
assembling stories with the best facts you can find
journalism provides (what)?
maximum info with minimum opinion
What are the most common factual errors?
- Misquotation
- Numbers wrong
- Misspelling
- Job title wrong
- Name wrong
- time/date wrong
- address wrong
- date wrong
- age wrong
What are the 5 W’s?
Who, what, when, where, why
What is the purpose of the inverted pyramid?
To present facts right way, sum up story in the beginning
What is the purpose of chronological writing?
State facts according to time, resolution in the end
The lead is found in?
The first paragraph
What are the steps to writing an effective news lead?
- Collect all your facts
- Sum it up, boil it down
- Prioritize the 5 w’s
- rethink, Revise, Rewrite
What are good types of leads?
Basic news lead narrative leads scene setters blind leads round up direct address startling statement wordplay
what are bad types of leads
topic leads
question leads
quote leads
What is a nut graf?
The paragraph that condenses the story idea into a nutshell
What are briefs and brites?
Brief: news story that is short
Brites: entertaining briefs
If stuck, when writing, ask what questions?
What is the problem
How did it get this way?
Where do we go from here?
What is the martini glass organizational structure?
The lead
key facts in inverted pyramid form
chronology of events
kicker
What is the kabob organizational structure?
Anecdote nut graf meat meat meat anecdote
