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Writing For Media

Jour 2150

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General Assignment Reporters Cover breaking news or feature stories as they come up. Mainly cover spot news.
Spot News Spot News is news occurring now.
Beat Reporters Cover breaking news and features in specific geographic and subject areas every day
Specialty Reporters Cover breaking news and features in even more specialized areas than beat reporters, such as transportation, energy, medicine, etc.
Editor Role changes depending on the size of the paper. Smaller paper, more roles and vice versa.
Managing Editor Runs the newsroom. Makes sure that the newspaper is out on time each day.
Byline Line, usually at the top of a story, that names the author.
News Editor In charge of the copy desk, where the copy editors work.
Copy Desk Where copy editors work
Copy Editors Edit copies and write headlines for the wire and locally written stories that go on the news pages each day.
Designers Are responsible for pagination, the electronic layout process
Editorial News Hole Space on a newspaper page that does not contain an advertisement and is reserved for stories or art.
News Meetings Doping Sessions, News Conference, Editors' Meeting, or Editorial Conference.
Hard News Killings, City Council Meetings and speeches by leading government officials, timely and reported almost automatically by the media.
Soft News These events contain elements of news, however, and the media often report them. Not immediately important or timely.
Convergence Reaching audiences by combining the strengths of newspapers, TV and the Internet in collecting and delivering information.
Gatekeepers People who make news decisions. Editors and reporters decide what to include and emphasize.
Criteria For Newsworthiness Timeliness, Proximity, Conflict, Eminence and Prominence, Consequence and Impact, and Human Interest.
News Hole How much space is available for stories
News Mix Mixing Hard News with Soft News and providing a variety of levels of coverage.
Follows Sometimes referred to as a second day story, a second or later story written about a newsworthy event.
Fourteen Traits of Good Writers
Trait 1 Always see something to write about
Trait 2 Prefer to discover and develop their own story ideas.
Trait 3 Be a Voracious collector of information
Trait 4 Always working on leads to make them better
Trait 5 Immersing yourself in the story.
Trait 6 Bleeders rather than speeders
Trait 7 Understanding that material must be organized properly.
Trait 8 Good Writers Rewrite
Trait 9 Trust their ears and feelings over eyes.
Trait 10 Love To tell Stories.
Trait 11 Write to please themselves, but understand that writing is a transaction between writer and reader.
Trait 12 Take Chances in their Writing
Trait 13 Lifelong readers, mostly of novels, and like movies.
Trait 14 Write too long, and know it.
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