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| who is a gatekeeper and what do they do? |
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a gatekeeper is the person who is in charge of keeping order of all the stories.
they decide what stories get in the paper and how much space to give them. |
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*Everyone*
everyone is a gatekeeper in one way or another
we don't always tell everyone everything |
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| who are some examples of gatekeepers? |
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| professionals, editors, coaches, teachers, us. |
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the area that a reporter focuses on
a reporters beat(focus) can be sports, their specialization (concentration) can be football |
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what is specialization?
give an example
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a specific concentration within a reporters beat
EX: Sports Illustrated |
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| who sets the agenda for what America talks about? |
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| the media determines agenda setting |
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a story makes news if it becomes part of the agenda setting
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who sees the story gatekeeps whether it becomes news |
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| a combination of what we need to know and what we want to know |
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Explain:
"If its good news, it's bad news. And if it's bad news, it's good news." |
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If it's good news for the people, then it's bad news for the reporters because no one wants to read about good things happening.
And so when there's bad news, then that's good news for the media because people will want to read about it. |
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| what is a another saying that has to do with the idea that no one really wants to hear about good news, only every now and then? |
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What makes news?
List the 9 points |
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- timeliness
- proximity
- prominence
- unique
- consequence
- conflict
- suspense
- human interest
- progress
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with the new technology today, it's all about being immediate, being the first on the story
when a story happens affects whether it makes the news, is it recent? |
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explain:
proximity/localize |
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| where the news occurs, what location is affected by the news |
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who?
who it happened and does that person have prominence (importance).
it could be a person, place, or thing
EX: mayor brown, famous athlete |
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| whether the story is uncommon, |
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the importance to those who it serves, will the event affect someone afterwards
EX: property tax increase |
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| could be wars, politics, labor management, sports |
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could be a court case, or elections-->
makes people anticipate what's going to happen |
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feature, fluff piece
not real, hard news |
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explain:
progress/lack of progress |
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new developments, changes
EX: new technology department at Buff State |
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What is Formula I?
Explain it |
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Formula I is the Inverted Pyramid
It's putting the most important information at the top/beginning of the story, then the second most important, third most important, and so on. |
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| What is the lead and where does it go? |
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the lead is at the very top, it leads the rest of the story
it isn't necessarily the first sentence, but it's in the 1st paragraph of a news story |
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How many words should the lead normally have?
But how many words does it usually end up having?
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| the lead sentence should be 35-40 words, but most leads will be in the 22-25 word range |
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| What are the 8 points of writing a lead? |
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- placement
- prominence
- indentifier
- tense
- attribution
- redundcu
- sources
- punctuation
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Writing the lead:
placement |
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- refers to when it happened
- usually the placement is stated after the first verb in the sentence
EX: Miller was shot Thursday |
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Writing the Lead:
prominence |
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- refers to the person or thing it happened to, but more importantly, who they are to us.
** if the person who is affected does not have prominence, their name does not go in the lead **
However, you will begin the 2nd paragraph with their name.
** If a person does have prominence, then you will use their name as the first word in the first sentence of the lead ** |
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Writing the Lead:
Identifier |
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- must know the difference between a 'native' and a 'resident'
- try to get specific with identifying a person
- use the ay of the week when telling the time the story happened |
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| - Almost always, we will use the past tense in the lead |
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Writing the Lead:
Attribution |
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- where we got the information from
- the attribution will go at the end of the lead --> at the end of first sentence, followed by a common (,) followed by the attribution |
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Writing the Lead:
Redundacy |
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- repeating something twice in 2 different ways
EX: A Buffalo man died Tuesday morning at 4 am in a car accident on Elmwood Street, police said.
avoid redundancy |
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Writing the Lead:
Sources |
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1. Primary Source: someone who was there at the scene--> people who are directly involved
EX: fireman at the scene
2. Secondary Source: someone/something that was indirectly involved
EX: a history book, family members, meeting minutes, news, letters |
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Writing the Lead:
Punctuation |
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we will only use these 5 forms of punctuation
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| How many sentences should be in a paragraph? |
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| generally speaking, paragraphs should only be 1-3 sentences |
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| what is the test of the lead? |
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| it's if the reader only has the lead of the story, he or she will know what the story is about |
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