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Ag Com Chapter 5
Ag Com Chapter 5 News Media Writing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| News Media | radio and television stations, newspapers. magazines, and Internet news outlets from which people receive information |
| News writing | similar to , yet slightly different than, "traditional" writing; it is a more concise form of communication; also called journalistic writing |
| Newsworthiness | news value; what stories the media will cover in their newscasts and newspapers |
| Jargon | technical language; generally avoided in news writing so that the message is easily understood |
| Inverted Pyramid structure | the most commonly used structure for news writing; presents the most important information in a news story first, followed in descending order by less-important information. |
| Five Ws and H | the key components of any news story: who, what, when, where, why, and how. |
| Lead Paragraph | the first paragraph in the news story; grabs the reader's attention and answers the most important of the five Ws and H. |
| Editorializing | allowing the writer's opinions, prejudices, and biases to enter a story; should be avoided in news writing |
| Cliche | overused words and phrases, such as "it cost and arm and a leg," "drop in a bucket," and "on the cutting edge." |
| Attribution | telling readers where the information in a news story comes from |
| Associated Press Style | a writing style for new stories developed by the Associated Press, an international organization of professional journalist |
| Feature Story | more relaxed in style than the traditional news story; set apart from a news story because of the greater amount of detail and description it contains. |
| Soundbite | the exact words spoken by someone in hi or her own recorded voice |
| Actuality | a term commonly used in radio for the exact words spoken by someone in his or her own voice. |
| B-roll | any non-narrated video footage shot expressly to "cover" narration or an interview |
| Outcue | the last thing a reporter says; usually it gives the reporter's name and television station |
| Package | a complete television news story: typically will run 90 seconds to 2 minutes in length |
| Slug | provides the title of the script, the running time, and the date that the story is to be aired or when it was written |
| Stand-up | when a reporter narrates a portion of a story on camera |
| Sound on tape (SOT) | any audio accompanying a video; most frequently describes when any person talking is shown speaking |
| Voice over (VO) | video that will be shown, with a newscaster narrating the script; the newscaster is providing voice over the video |
| Voice over / sound on tape ( VO/SOT) | when a newscaster narrates a script on air while video runs over the narrator's voice (VO), followed immediately by someone talking about a topic related to the voice over |
| Articulation | making vocal sounds distinctly; the distinct pronunciation of words |
| Rate | the speed at which someone talks |
| Pitch | the high and low sounds of your voice |
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