Chapter 3 Vocabulary

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the knowledge and 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.

Timeliness

an element of news that refers to the geographic nearness of a given event to your place of publication or your readers

Proximity

an element of news that refers to how well-known an individual is in the community, school, 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.

Consequence

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 emotions as sorrow, pity, or amazement.

Human-interest story

an element of news that involves tension, surprise, and suspense, and arises with any good news topic—sports, war, elections.

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 survey sam

Random Sample

a question posed at the beginning of a survey, designed to eliminate people who do not belong to the desired population. “Are you 18 years o

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