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News And Mag Editing Basics
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1. What are the types of verbals?

2. Editors such purge copy of these trite - overused expressions. Ex: sweet as sugar

3. Tells the reader the source of the quote or information.

4. Fair use

5. Absolute privilege

6. Where should attribution go?

7. Popular way of organizing news sotries with the most important info at the top of the sotry - followed by supporting details.

8. Where do commas and periods go in quotes?

9. More historical context and common ground for opposing views.

10. When paraphrasing and quotes repeat each other - redundant.

11. Fair comment and criticism

12. Opening spread

13. Professional language that reporters are prone to use because their sources use it.

14. In essence - anything from the text but the story (Title - deck - head - subhead - pull quotes - bylines - blurbs - captions - etc.) - Used to draw readers into a story - Stats reinforce display copy and visuals

15. Stories - videos - audio - photos and grpahics provided by the times - ap - etch to subscriber newsrooms.

16. Loopwhole journalism

17. Basic situations in Invasion of privacy

18. Concept - Structure - Reporting - Style (creativity) - Presentation - Was it worth saying? Is there relevance/timeliness?

19. How broadcasters write stories. Leads are shorter in length and they are in the present tense.

20. Collective noun

21. Dash

22. When are relative pronouns like who used?

23. Organizing a story and related info in small linked pieces.

24. Convergence of media

25. Sidebar

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