Ch.13 News Gathering And Reporting

Front 1

News values help journalists decide _________________ and ____________.

Back 1

what stories merit coverage and to what degree.

Front 2

News values have been formed by ____________, ____________, _____________, and _____________.

Back 2

tradition, technology, organizational policy, and by economics.

Front 3

The common elements that characterize newsworthy stories are: _____________, ___________, _______________, ______________, and ______________.

Back 3

timeliness, proximity, prominence, consequence, and human interest

Front 4

To be news, news must be fresh, immediate, and current. The digital revolution has put a premium on this.

Back 4

timeliness

Front 5

The closer a news event is to your home, the more important you perceive
it to be

Back 5

proximity

Front 6

The more important a person is, the more valuable he or she is as a news
source. Even infamous criminals have news value, hence the frequent
media coverage of their past lives and recent exploits.

Back 6

prominence

Front 7

Events that affect a great many people have built-in news value.

Back 7

consequence

Front 8

Stories arousing some emotion in the audience. They may be uplifting,
bizarre, ironic, or dramatic.

Back 8

human interest

Front 9

_____________, in addition to the five traditional news values, also plays an important role in determining whether a story is reported.

Back 9

Economics

Front 10

Economic factors also determine _____________.

Back 10

coverage

Front 11

Name some economic factors that determine coverage.

Back 11

Cost of covering stories
Fit within the organization’s look
Conflicts of interest

Front 12

Audiences can go to ________________ covering broad topic areas (CNN.com, usatoday.com); _______________ offering a digest of news from other sources (Google, Yahoo); ____________ offering content with a tight focus (ESPN); or ________.

Back 12

general news sites
news aggregators
specialized news sites
blogs

Front 13

Name 5 characteristics of blogs.

Back 13

• Blogs represent another source of news, free from economic, corporate, political, or advertising considerations. There are blogs devoted to all sorts of topics, and blogs offer alternative points of view to traditional media.
• Blogs can have an agenda setting effect, and can help keep events in the news cycle.
• Blogs can provide a check on traditional media and hold traditional media to higher levels of scrutiny.
• Blogs provide an additional outlet for reporters to explain why they reported a story in the way they did.
• Blogs have made it possible for everyone to become a reporter, and paved the way for citizen journalism.

Front 14

_______________ to news coverage of stories of interest to a very small community.

Back 14

Hyperlocal news

Front 15

The converged reporter has the skills of the ____________ and _______________.

Back 15

journalist and the video journalist

Front 16

______________ "do it all" journalists who carry a digital camera, laptop computer, and satellite phone. They produce stories for print, television, and online media.

Back 16

Backpack journalist

Front 17

Reporters who work out of their cars and cover local community news are called _____________, or ________.

Back 17

mobile journalists; mojos

Front 18

Jjournalists must learn the appropriate skills to take advantage of all the Internet can offer. These skills are generally referred to as __________________.

Back 18

computer-assisted reporting

Front 19

News can be broken down into what three broad categories?

Back 19

(1) hard news, (2) features, or soft news, and (3) investigative reports.

Front 20

__________ the realm of traditional fact-oriented journalism; it embodies the famous journalistic question set of _________________________.

Back 20

Hard news; who, what, where, when, why, and how

Front 21

Hard news generally embraces all but the ______________ values, with emphasis on the values of _____________ and _____________.

Back 21

human interest
timeliness
consequence

Front 22

_________ usually deliver news in the traditional _____________ format, wherein the story is reported in a descending order of importance.

Back 22

The Print Media; inverted pyramid

Front 23

The first sentence of a hard news story is the ______, a sentence that summarizes the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the story.

Back 23

lead

Front 24

__________ follow a _________ in which the level of important facts remains the same throughout the story and often ends in a summary statement of the story’s relevance to the viewer.

Back 24

The Broadcast Media; square

Front 25

(factual, no nonsense approach) or ______ (feature-like approach designed to grab the viewer’s interest).

Back 25

hard leads
soft leads

Front 26

___________ don’t follow a single writing style.

Back 26

Online Media

Front 27

In online media, . Generally the newspaper ____________format is followed, and photos, videos and links to related sites are integrated into the text.

Back 27

inverted pyramid

Front 28

Soft news, or __________, covers a wide range of topics.

Back 28

features

Front 29

Soft news usually relies heavily on the _______________.

Back 29

human interest news value

Front 30

There are two main sources of print news: ___________ and ___________.

Back 30

staff reports and wire services.

Front 31

There are two types of reporters: the _____________ who specializes in covering a topic such as fire and police departments, government, schools, and business; and the ______________ , who covers whatever assignments come up.

Back 31

beat reporter; general assignment reporter

Front 32

Typical responsibilities for a news program producer include (5):

Back 32

-deciding what stories are covered, by whom, and in what way
-deciding the order in which stories appear in the newscast
-determining the amount of time each story is given
-writing copy for some stories
-integrating live reports into the newscasts

Front 33

AP stands for the _____________ wire service and UPI stands for _______________; they are our country’s two biggest news wire services and together provide you with most of the news about what’s going on outside of your local community.

Back 33

Associated Press; United Press International

Front 34

What is the purpose of a wire service?

Back 34

To provide newspapers with correspondents and coverage that the papers couldn’t otherwise afford.

Front 35

Newspapers pay for wire service news on a ______________: the bigger the paper’s circulation, the more they pay.

Back 35

sliding scale

Front 36

Despite their differences, editors and reporters in each media share the same basic values and journalistic principles (5):

Back 36

-honesty
-accuracy
-balance
-objectivity
-maintaining credibility