Journalism Scavenger Hunt of online newspapers

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Journalism Scavenger Hunt of online newspapers

• Your Name Goes Here

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Directions

• Access my website
• Find the Scavenger Hunt Assignment
• Use the URLs to locate five examples of each
  element
• Paste your choices in this template
• Include reporter, name of publication, date, and
  a sentence-long summary of the gist of the story.

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News stories background

• News events are termed hard news.
• Every story must include full information
  regarding the 5 Ws and How.
• Types of leads include
• Summary lead (tells what happened concisely, is
  packed with many clear statements of facts

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Good news story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 1
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good news story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 2
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good news story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 3
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good news story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 4
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good news story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 5
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Feature stories background

• A feature story sometimes called fluff and is
  often designed to fill up the paper when it is a
  soft news day.
• You can sometimes find them below the fold on
  the front page.
• On weekends, especially Sundays, a feature story
  may appear above the fold because most Sunday
  papers have a more relaxed, more human feel to
  them.

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Good feature story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 1
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good feature story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 2
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good feature story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 3
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good feature story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 4
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Good feature story leads First 30 words, give or
take

• Publication 5
• Date
• Reporter
• Justify your selection (tell why you chose it)
• Good lead/copy paste

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Photographs background

• A good pic grabs the readers attention.
• It illustrates an important aspect or element of
  the story.
• Often, people mentioned in the story are pictured
• Faces face into the page
• Faces should be about the size of a dime or
  larger.

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Good pics

• Publication 1
• Date
• Photographer
• Tell why it is good.
• Paste here

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Good pics

• Publication 2
• Date
• Photographer
• Tell why it is good.
• Paste here

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Good pics

• Publication 3
• Date
• Photographer
• Tell why it is good.
• Paste here

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Good pics

• Publication 4
• Date
• Photographer
• Tell why it is good.
• Paste here

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Good pics

• Publication 5
• Date
• Photographer
• Tell why it is good.
• Paste here

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Cutlines background

• In books, it is called a caption in periodicals
  it is a cutline.
• Often, the pic illustrates an element of the
  story, and the cutline explains the pic clearly.
• It usually has a different style font
• Sometime the photo credit is in the cutline, and
  other times it is along the border of the pic, in
  tiny font.