1. Timeliness: How recent the event was
2. Proximity: How close it is to the readers
3. Human Interest: How interesting the story is. Has to attract the readers interest.
4. Prominence: importance to the readers
5. Conflict: Stories need to have a problem to make them interesting. There needs to be an issue that the character figures out and goes through
6. Interviews: Have to be done to get quotes for the story. Go and talk with the main subject
7. Research: More information about the topic of the story so that the writer can have a better understanding of the topic and help come up with questions and be able to talk with the main subject during the interview.
8. Quotations: Start with quotation marks the nthe quote then a coma then a quotation mark and then the title given to the subject.
9. Yes-no question: Don't ask these questions. Questions must be open ended
10. follow-up question: Need more information for the story so you go back and ask more questions to the subject
11. Objective writing: writing you can verify through evidence and facts. you have to remain neutral in your opinion
12. Transition paragraph: Flows between two quotes and adds additional facts and information
13. Hard news story: written where a reader can stop reading at any time and still get the full story (general location or recent events)
14. Soft news story: Mix of information and entertainment (like a feature story)
15. Inverted Pyramid: Story goes from most important information to least important facts
16. Third-person point of view: He, she, they, him, told from interviewers point of view
17. 5 Ws and H lead: In the beginning, is almost like a little summary that explains the upcoming story
18. editing: Going back and checking over grammar and spelling and punctuation to make the story better
19. attribution: the title given to a person after a quote within a news story
20. paraphrase: to summarize
21. fragmentary quotation: not a complete sentence. don't use a comma
22. direct quotation: exactly what the interviewee said. has quotation marks and is word for word
23. partial quotation: like a fragmentary quote
24. Uses of quotations: quote transition style unless it is an opinions piece is needed
25. When to use quotations: after each transition
26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired
27. Editorial: Kind of opinion story where the whole staff takes a stance on a subject. the people remain anonymous
28. editorial page
29. columns: run by one person who writes a weekly piece about an opinion or event or anything really
30. editorial that criticizes: These editorials constructively criticize actions, decisions or situations while providing solutions to the problem identified. Immediate purpose is to get readers to see the problem, not the solution.
31. editorial that explains: Editors often use these editorials to explain the way newspaper covered a sensitive or controversial subject. School newspapers may explain new school rules or particular student-body effort like a food drive
32. editorial that persuades: Aim to immediately see the solution, not the problem. Readers will be encouraged to take a specific, positive action. EX. Political endorsements
33. letter to the editor: commend the editor on their writing
33. letter to the editor: commend the editor on their writing
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