chapter 3

12 cards·by rubi sanchez

the knowledge adn instintic a reporter calls on to determine weather an evet 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 an given event

proximity

an element of news that refers to how well-known an individual in the community

prominence

an element of news that refers to the imporatance of the news

consequence

the writing of a regional, national, or even international story to bring out local angle

localization

a story that causes the reader to feel such emotions as sorrow, pity, or amazing.

human-interest story

an element of news that refers to the importance of the news

conflict

A method of obtaining many ideas in a short time

brainstorming

a sample of a population to be surveyed in wich every member of the population has an equal possibility of being included in the survey s.

random sample

a question posed at the beginning of a survey, designed to eliminate people who do not belong to the desired population

filter question