Write your name______
Q1-10 (2 points each)
Your answers will be graded based on not only contents but also their misspellings and style errors.
1. Write three roles of the mass media.
2. "Currency" is one of news values. Describe it.
3. Do you need to use an icebreaker when you interview a politician? Why or why not?
4. If your interviewee ask you to show the article before publication, what should you do?
5. When do you think you may show the article to an interviewee before publication?
6. Explain the GOSS method and list six elements in it -- the original four and additional two.
7. Explain the inverted pyramid format.
8. Explain the wall street journal format.
9. What is the direct-address lead?
10. There are two types of proximity as a news value. What are they? the psychological proximity and ( ) proximity.
Write your name______
AP Style and copy editing
Rewrite the following sentences. (Q11-Q16, 4 points each)
11. Next Summer, Maurice Reimer, an accountant with an office on Bender Ave., wants to buy a 4-door toyota avalon that costs about 29000 dollars. (4 points)
12. 50 youths met in the YMCA at 3010 1st Avenue yesterday and agreed to return at 7:00PM October 4 to view the film titled Sports. (4 points)
13. After leaving the white house, Pres. Ronald Reagan retired from the Federal Government and moved to southern California but continued to meet with republican leaders. (4 points)
14. Waiting for the published book, Ann's hands trembled.
15. The committee submits their data this weekend and expects it to help their church.
16. A representative for the organization said they help anyone that is on welfare obtain some job training and raise their self esteem.
Concise writing (Q17, Q18, 3 points, each)
17. She was in a quick hurry and warned that, in the future, she will seek out textbooks that are sexist and demand that they be totally banned. (Cross out redundant words)
18. His convertible was totally destroyed, and in order to obtain the money necessary to buy a new car, he now plans to ask a personal friend for a loan to help him along. (Cross out redundant words)
Write your name______
19. News story. Write a lead. You need to put in parentheses the number of words used at the end of your lead. The lead should be between 25-35 words in length.
Francie Franklin, proprietor of a small bakary in Pleasant Grove was killed last night. Police chief Wilburn Cole tells you over the phone that Miss Franklin did not deliver a wedding cake as expected this morning, and when the bride’s mother went to the bake shop in Miss Franklin’s home to check, she found the front door open and a display case smashed. “She didn’t go no further,” Cole sayd. “When we got there we found Miss Francie in the kitchen. She was shot dead.” The little shop is in a shamble when you go by to check and you note the contrast to the neat tidy operation the woman kept. You can’t find the chief, but the radio dispatcher reads this memo to you: “France’s body was taken to Smith’s Funeral Parlor where they’ll do an autopsy. It must have happened before midnight because her television set was still on and she always turns it off after the late movie. She was shot once in the chest and her pistol is mising from the drawer under the cash register. Money was scattered around but they probably got away with some.” Kenton County Homicide Investigator Kelton Kelly says she was shot with a .22 calibre bullet and that they didn’t find any fingerprints. However, a strange, unidentified red wool ski cap was found under the body. Kenton County Coronor Ransom Cranwell tells you that death was from a single gunshot wound and that there were not other injuries. “It was crazy the way they messed up the place though,” he adds. “She was always so proud of it. She was just an old maid who loved everyone and everyone loved her.” Arrangements are pending. No known survivors. Age 68. Address, 504 Ash Street. She started the business 20 years ago under the name Francie’s Francies. She recently expanded by building a small service area at the front of the house.
20. The instructions for this question are the same as above.
Your citys Fire Chief announced today that the fire department is ending a tradition at least a hundred years old. It's the tradition of sliding down a pole to get to a fire engine. The city, he explained, is phasing poles out as it builds new one-story stations to replace older multistory firehouses. Going down the pole too fast and hitting a concrete floor can cause injuries and was therefore never a good tradition, he said. He explained that fire department records show over the past 20 years at least 12 firemen suffered injuries, especially sprained or broken ankles or legs. Still crews improved their response time to fires by bypassing staircases from their upstairs living quarters, by cutting holes in the floors of firehouses, and by installing and using the brass or steel poles. The last multi-story firehouse with a pole is slated for demolition sometime early next year.
PAGE
PAGE 3
A 68-year-old woman was shot to death sometime before midnight last night in her bakery. Unidentified red wool ski cap was found under her body, and the criminal is still on loose. (32)
A woman was shot to death sometime before midnight last night in her bakery by an unidentified person who left no evidence in the destroyed bakery except for a red ski cap.
(33)
A woman was killed last night in her small bakery in Pleasant Grove after an apparent robbery and struggle; an autopsy is being performed after finding a single gunshot wound. (30)
The fire department is ending a 100-year-old tradition of sliding down poles to get to the fire truck to avoid injury of the firemen as it build new on-story stations.
The city is building new one-story firehouses to get rid of sliding down po
According to an announcement today by the city fire chief, sliding down poles will phased out in favor of single story fire house. The change comes after records reveal injuries related to sliding down poles.