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Chapter 3 Vocab.
12 cards·by Edgar S.
the knowledge instinct a reporter calls on to determine whether an event is news
News Judgment
a story about a coming event.
Advance
an element of news that has to do with how new or current the event is.
Timelines
an element of news that refers to the geographic nearness of a given event to your place of
publication or your reader.
Proximity
an element of news that refers to how well-known an individual is in the community,schools,
nation, or world.
Prominence
an element of news that refers to the importance of the event. The greater the consequence, the
greater the news value.
Consequences
the writing of a regional, national, or even international story to bring out the local angle.
Localization
a story that causes the reader to feel such emotion as sorrow, pity, or amazement
human-interest story
an element of news that involves tension
Conflict
a method of obtaining many ideas in a short time
Brainstorming
a sample of a population to be surveyed in which every member of the population has an equal
possibility of being included in the surveyed
Random Sample
a question posed at the beginning of a survey
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