CHAPTER 4

Question 1

Refers to getting the news. It may include the actual witnessing of the event, interview, printed material or combination of the three.

Answer 1

Coverage

Question 2

Involves explaining the news, filling the background, forecasting and sometimes passing moral judgement.

Answer 2

Interpretation

Question 3

Is the assigning of value to the news

Answer 3

Play

Question 4

Scope or Origin

Answer 4

1. Local News
2. Foreign News
3. Dateline News

Question 5

Chronology or Sequence

Answer 5

1. Advanced or Anticipated
2. Spot News
3. Coverage News
4. Follow-up News

Question 6

Treatment

Answer 6

1. Fact Story
2. Action Story
3. Speech or Quote Story
4. Human Interest Story
5. Interpretive Story

Question 7

Content

Answer 7

1. Routine Story
2. Police Report
3. Science News
4. Developing Communication
5. Sports News

Question 8

Structure

Answer 8

1. Straight News
2. News Feature

Question 9

News Feature

Answer 9

a. Single-Feature Structure
b. Several-Feature/Composite Structure

Question 10

Advanced News

Answer 10

Investigative, Interpretative, Depth News

Question 11

Minor Forms

Answer 11

1. Newsbrief
2. News bulletin
3. News-featurette
4. Sidebar
5. Flash
6. Classroom Story
7. Meeting Story
8. Speech Story
9. Box Story
10. Personal News

Question 12

Sources of News

Answer 12

1. Beats
2. Printed Materials
3. Tips from teacher and students
4. Publicity and press releases
5. Future book or dope book
6. An alert corps of reporters

Question 13

News published before its occurrence, sometimes called dope or prognostication.

Answer 13

Advanced or Anticipated

Question 14

News that is gathered and reported on the spot.

Answer 14

Spot News

Question 15

News written from a given beat or assignment.

Answer 15

Coverage News

Question 16

A sequel to a previous story.

Answer 16

Follow-up News

Question 17

This is a plain exposition setting forth a single situation or a series of closely-related facts that inform.

Answer 17

Fact Story

Question 18

A narrative of actions involving not mere simple facts, but also dramatic events.

Answer 18

Action Story

Question 19

A news story usually written from a public address, talk, speeches etc. All are based on recorded information.

Answer 19

Speech or Quote Story

Question 20

News that appeals to the emotion and attempt to gain a response from the reader.

Answer 20

Human Interest Story

Question 21

News that help the reader to understand the significance of the facts of the story.

Answer 21

Interpretive News

Question 22

Reported events that occur year
in and year out like enrolment, Christmas, election,
graduation and anniversary stories.

Answer 22

Routine Story

Question 23

Stories of event wherein the
police, the military or government authorities have
to step in, like accident, fire, calamity
(earthquakes, landslide, flood, volcano eruption)
stories, especially, when people are killed or
injured, and property is destroyed.

Answer 23

Police Report

Question 24

Stories on development, advancement, and progress.

Answer 24

Development Communication

Question 25

News that consists of facts given straight without embellishment. Its main aim is to inform. It uses the summary lead and is written following the inverted pyramid structure

Answer 25

Straight News

Question 26

(Featured news distinguished from a feature article) it is news, not a feature article. It is also based on facts, but it entertains more than it informs. It usually uses the suspended interest structure like the narrative, thus cannot meet the cut off like in straight news.

Answer 26

News Feature

Question 27

The story deals with an isolated event. A single fact is featured in the lead and is explained further in the succeeding paragraphs. The story breaks logically at every paragraph; thus, enabling the reporter to cut or lengthen it as space dictates

Answer 27

Straight-Feature Structure

Question 28

several facts are included in the lead in their order of importance. These facts are elaborated one after the other in the body. this aims to draw together two or more divergent aspects of related news topics in the interest of space, economy, and coherence. Here instead of writing many related news item separately, the writer writes them in one big story.

Answer 28

Several-Feature/Composite Structure

Question 29

a short item of news interest, written like a brief, telegraphic message, giving mainly the result with details

Answer 29

Newsbrief

Question 30

it is similar to the lead of a straight news story. Its aim is just to give the gist of the news.

Answer 30

News bulletin

Question 31

this is a short-news featured usually used as fillers, e.g., “Quirks in the news.”

Answer 31

News-featurette

Question 32

a news item or a feature placed side by side its mother story to which it is related but under a headline of its own.

Answer 32

sidebar

Question 33

a message giving a first brief news of the event. It is usually boxed.

Answer 33

flash

Question 34

it is an interpretative news in academic front. This type, neglected by most schools, is needed to give balance and to present a true picture of the of the school.

Answer 34

classroom story

Question 35

it includes purpose, time and place, name of organization, participant, background information about speakers, kind of meeting, and feature angle.

Answer 35

meeting story

Question 36

it includes the speaker and his background, theme of the speech, occasion, time and place, quotations, description of audience, including unusual reaction.

Answer 36

speech story

Question 37

it is a story enclosed in a box.

Answer 37

box story

Question 38

it has no real news value but is purely personal item of interest only to the person, his friends, acquaintances, and admirers.

Answer 38

personal news