Final Review

1. Timeliness- the newness of the facts.

2. Proximity- the nearness of a given event to your place of publication.

3. Human Interest- the drama that surrounds people involved in an emotional struggle.

4. Prominence- the "newsworthiness" of an individual, organization or place.

5. Conflict- the meeting of two or more opposing forces. These can be physical, emotional or philosophical.

6. Interviews-

7. Research

8. Quotations

9. Yes-no question

10. Follow-up question

11. Objective writing

12. Transition paragraph

13. Hard news story

14. Soft news story

15. Inverted Pyramid

16. Third-person point of view

17. 5 Ws and H lead

18. editing

19. attribution

20. paraphrase

21. fragmentary quotation

22. direct quotation

23. partial quotation

24. Uses of quotations 

25. When to use quotations

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired

27. Editorial- a different kind of opinion/commentary that appears in evert daily newspaper in the country and in most high school newspapers as well.

28. editorial page- 

29. columns

30. editorial that criticizes- They constructively criticize actions, decisions or situations while 

31. editorial that explains

32. editorial that persuades

33. letter to the editor