Exam 9: Reporting: The Basics and Beyond

Many meetings use formal rules such as ______.

What is the best way to cover an event?

Stories about the world ending or a zombie attack are which type of localization?

Which type of localization is a story about a big celebrity that you hear from someone who "knew her back in the day"?

Reporting on a city council meeting is an example of covering a ______.

______ stories can emerge from trends you notice on your beat, interesting people you meet, or generally intriguing concepts you encounter in your daily life.

Background research does not help you determine what will happen at the event and who is involved.

Getting contact information is a waste of time.

If you can finish this sentence, "This matters because . . ," then your story has ______.

______ can include some of the background you gathered, any quotes you got from sources before the event, and optional lead elements, based on the outcome of the event.

How can you prepare to cover an event?

A meeting is an event where a governing body of representatives comes together to deal with the business pertaining to that group or the people that the group represents.

Just because you hadn't planned for something, doesn't mean that it doesn't matter to your readers.

It is not necessary to assess the news value of an event.

It's often not necessary to seek secondary sources at an event.

Postmeeting interviews are not helpful.

The purpose of any event story is to find the most important aspects of what happened and report them to people who need to know about them.

News conferences are not helpful for an organization to disseminate a single message to multiple media outlets in a single moment.

At ______, your job as a reporter is to sit in as a substitute for your readers and distill for them what happened.

Reporting on a new product introduction during an organized event for media at a corporate headquarters is an example of covering a ______.