JOU3101 Exam 1 – Accurate Solutions For Every
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Why am I writing this?
Why do I think the reader should read this?
How does the story affect the reader?
Choose an answer
1 4 main functions of news media 2 AP Style mantra
3 What is news? 4 the Nut Graf
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Terms in this set (42)
4 main functions of news media Report, Explain, Entertain and Lead
Explain why did it happen? how did it happen?
, Entertain be interesting
Lead opinion writers, what you do and why you do it
What is news? Anything that interests a large part of the community
and has never been brought to its attention before
a change of consequence in the status quo
what reporters and editors say it is
A big story First needs a good lede (what else is there to talk
about0
Then talk to someone about it
Then use nut graf
Topics pandemic, economy, politics, health care, weather,
conflict, crime, sexual harassment, sports, oddities,
whack jobs
News is 50/50 50%: What has happened, what is happening, what is
going to happen.
50%: how does it affect the reader, how could it
affect the reader (directly, indirectly and vicariously)
What is news 2? Changing relationships
disruptive events
News values impacts, timeliness, prominence, proximity, conflict,
weirdness, currency, audience
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Save
Practice questions for this set
Learn 1 /7 Study using Learn
Why am I writing this?
Why do I think the reader should read this?
How does the story affect the reader?
Choose an answer
1 4 main functions of news media 2 AP Style mantra
3 What is news? 4 the Nut Graf
Don't know?
Terms in this set (42)
4 main functions of news media Report, Explain, Entertain and Lead
Explain why did it happen? how did it happen?
, Entertain be interesting
Lead opinion writers, what you do and why you do it
What is news? Anything that interests a large part of the community
and has never been brought to its attention before
a change of consequence in the status quo
what reporters and editors say it is
A big story First needs a good lede (what else is there to talk
about0
Then talk to someone about it
Then use nut graf
Topics pandemic, economy, politics, health care, weather,
conflict, crime, sexual harassment, sports, oddities,
whack jobs
News is 50/50 50%: What has happened, what is happening, what is
going to happen.
50%: how does it affect the reader, how could it
affect the reader (directly, indirectly and vicariously)
What is news 2? Changing relationships
disruptive events
News values impacts, timeliness, prominence, proximity, conflict,
weirdness, currency, audience
