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media convergence is best defined as

merging or print, broadcast, and online media

Five common qualities of news

1.proximity


2.timeliness


3.conflict


4.human interest


5.unusual nature

The foscus of the story is

the main idea


main questions a reporter should answer in a news story

1.who?


2.what?


3.where?


4.when?


5.why?


6.how?

Delivery of news

1. blogs


2.social media


3.podcast


4.newspaper

citizen journlism

ordinary citizen seeing something, taking a picture, posting online and "reporting" on the situation

changes in online news

1.continual deadlines


2.interactive content


3.related links


4.nonlinear structure


5.databases


6.personalized journalism

parts of news story

1.headline


2.lead


3.nut graph


4.quotes


5.impact


6.attribution


7.context and background


8.elaboration


9.ending

hard news

includes stories of a timely nature about events or conflicts that have just happened or are about to happen (crimes, fires, meetings, rallies, court cases)

soft news

news that entertains or informs

on the record

the source agrees that all information can be used in a news story and that he/she can be identified as the source

off the record

information from this source may not be used at all

"not for attribution"

you may use this information as background, but you may not identify the source

point statement

known as "focus statement" may end up being the lead or will give you an idea for a lead

nut graph

"focus graph"


-paragraph that explains the point of the story