Deck 8: News From Afar: Editing Nonlocal Stories

Question 1

The stream of news stories, images and audio sent digitally by news providers to print news organizations is familiarly known as the ___.

Answer 1

wire

Question 2

Sometimes different versions of a story have different strengths and so an editor may decide to ___ the stories for maximum appeal.

Answer 2

combine

Question 3

Editors prepare a ___ to share with other editors as they decide what news to put into a particular news edition or broadcast.

Answer 3

budget

Question 4

The space available for news in a newspaper or magazine is called the ___.

Question 5

Editors use ___ in order to decide which stories are appropriate for their news organization and audience.

Question 6

News from afar that may have special interest for a particular news organization is often ___ in order to emphasize that connection.

Question 7

Editors would find it impossible to sort through the hundreds of news stories from the news providers' offerings without a guide, which is called a ___.

Question 8

Probably the best known American news association that provides a stream of stories, audio and visuals is ___.

Question 9

Broadcasters call the audio and video stream by another term, the ___.

Question 10

Editors monitor streams of information from a variety of professional news providers, but also may monitor less formal sources of information, such as from ___.