Test Bank The Responsible Journalist An Introduction to News Reporting and Writing 1st Edition by Jennie Dear
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Test Bank The Responsible Journalist An Introduction to News Reporting and Writing 1st Edition by Jennie Dear
The Responsible Journalist: An Introduction to News Reporting and Writing teaches reporting and writing skills from a liberal arts perspective with the understanding that at its heart, journalism is about public service.
ISBN-10 : 0199732345
ISBN-13 : 978-0199732340
Jennie Dear (Author), Faron Scott (Author)
Table Of Contents
Unit 1: What Distinguishes a Good Journalist?
Habits of mind
Initiative
Persistence
Curiosity
Conclusion
Chapter 1: The Publics Champion
Defining news media in an era of new media
If people govern themselves, they need a free press
— A bit of historical review
— The press as watchdog
Box 1-1: Bezos buys Wapo
Box 1-2: The First Amendment
Exercises for Chapter 1
Chapter 2: How Do Ethics and Critical Thinking Apply to Everyday Reporting?
Justice
— Stakeholders
— Fairness in stories
— Fairness and diversity across coverage
Stewardship
— Transparency
Freedom and Autonomy
— Freedom from manipulation
— Conflict of interest
Humaneness
Truth telling
— Factual accuracy
— Contextual truths
—- A caveat
An ethics case study: The facts of the case
— Who are the stakeholders?
Truth telling: What do we know is true?
— Factual accuracy
—- Is the autopsy report factually accurate?
—- Do you include the blood test results?
—- Do you include the murderers accusation?
— Contextual truth
Humaneness-to whom?
Freedom: keeping the decision independent
Justice: Whats fairest to all the stakeholders?
Stewardship: stepping back to think about journalisms credibility
Making the decision
How the Durango Herald explained its decision
Box 2-1: Facebook co-founder says magazines profits linked to quality
Box 2-2: Prize-winning journalism
Box 2-3: The autopsy story
Exercises for Chapter 2
Unit 2: Get It in Writing
Habits of mind
Framing
— Whats this mean for a working journalist?
News values
Deeper cultural concerns
Chapter 3: How is News Language Different?
Newswriting emphasizes reports
— Information you can verify
— Inferences may be based on insufficient information
— Judgments sometimes shut down thought
Newswriting usually avoids first-person references
Newswriting is concise and direct
— Fewer modifiers
— Simple sentence structures
— Active voice
Newswriting uses short paragraphs
Newswriting tries to use language fairly
Newswriting is consistent: an introduction to AP Style
Conclusion
Exercises for Chapter 3
Chapter 4: How Do You Tell a Basic News Story?
The inverted pyramid: an introduction
— Begin with whats most important and save the rest for later
— A news story example
— Avoid suspense when youre delivering news
— Your audience helps determine a storys form
Inverted pyramid leads
— Who, what, when, where-and sometimes how and why
— Brevity
— Leads include the most important details
— Delay precise identification
— The language of inverted pyramid leads
— Good leads are like poetry
Beyond the lead
— The second paragraph
— The third paragraph
— Later paragraphs
Box 4-1: literary journalism is the un inverted pyramid
Box 4-2: Heres what literary journalism looks like
Box 4-3: writing a broadcast lead
Exercises for Chapter 4
Chapter 5: The Story Changes with the Medium
News stories in print
Radio news stories: an overview
— Writing a radio news story
— Introduce sound bites clearly
— A story with voice-over
— A story with sound bites
Adding the visual element
— Writing a television or video news story
Online news stories: an overview
— Writing an online news story
—- Online news stories use brief summaries or decks
—- Online news stories link to other information
—- Online news stories are more likely to use subheadings
Conclusion
Box 5-1: a comparison of storytelling across media
Box 5-2: tips for print writing
Box 5-3: tips for radio/audio writing
Box 5-4: tips for television/video writing
Box 5-5: tips for online writing
Exercises for Chapter 5
Unit 3: Background for Your Stories
Habits of mind
— A bit of internet history
Chapter 6: A Journalists Skeptical Research
Filtering for accuracy: Two examples
Time to start searching
Searching the Internet
— Search engine insights
— Websites for journalists
— What does a journalist use from the Web?
Website credibility
— Identity and motivation
— Authority
— Accuracy
— Timeliness
— Blogs and aggregator sites
Social media for journalists
— Evaluating social media videos
Going offline
Box 6-1: using social media to report breaking news
Exercises for Chapter 6
Chapter 7: Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Stealing Other Peoples Stuff
Plagiarism
— Avoiding plagiarism is a skill
Copyright and Fair Use
— What can be copyrighted-and for how long?
— Some copyrighted information is fair game: The Fair Use Doctrine
Box 7-1: Five ways to avoid plagiarizing by mistake
Box 7-2: Whats public?
Box 7-3: How do you know whether your use is “fair”?
Box 7-4: when would a journalist be in danger of violating copyrights?
Exercises for Chapter 7
Unit 4: Working with Sources
Habits of mind
Your position, your judgment and your practice
Lenses: A metaphor for worldview
Objective reporting
— Biased journalism
— A brief history
— Critiques
—- Incomplete reporting
—- Passive reporting
Box H4-01: Avoiding false balance
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Who Gets the Spotlight?
Beyond convention and convenience in source selection
— Whats news depends on whom you interview
— Dont let sources turn you into propagandists
Good practices
— Confirm facts with more than one source
— Allow people to defend themselves
— Report diversity
—- Covering race and ethnicity
— Be aware of bias-or its appearance-when you select sources
— Distance yourself from sources
— Interview primary sources
— Interview expert sources…
— …But also interview the people affected by an issue
— Avoid using anonymous sources
— Shield laws help–but dont depend on them too much
— Dont fabricate sources or quotes
Finding Sources
— Ask each source for other sources
— Get out on the street
— Dont forget your own contacts
— Use social media
— When youre stumped for sources, think creatively
Exercises for Chapter 8
Chapter 9: How Do You Conduct an Interview?
Research ahead of time
Plan your questions
Contact your sources
The interview
— In person
— By phone
— By email or text
Privacy-Some information cant go into your story
— Private facts
— Intrusion
—- The Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Exercises for Chapter 9
Chapter 10: How Do You Report What Sources Say?
Guidelines for quoting
— Paraphrase.
— In general, dont mark dialect in quotes.
— Quotation marks mean that what appears between them is what someone actually said.
— Provide context and explanations before a quote, rather than after.
— A reporter should not take quotes out of context.
— Just because a source says something does not mean you have to report it.
— News stories emphasize the speaker rather than the reporter.
— News stories use “said” or “says.”
— Follow basic punctuation rules for quotes.
Quoting multiple sources
Defamation: When people say youve lied
— Standard practice
— Defenses against libel suits
—- Truth
—- Fair comment and criticism and rhetorical hyperbole
—- Privilege
Box 10-01: For broadcast stories, attribution comes first.
Box 10-02: How do you make sure youre not defaming someone?
Exercises for Chapter 10
Chapter 11: Working a Beat
Some basic assumptions about beats
Professional relationships with sources
— Research before you talk to peop