Welcome to the new semester.
Recall that we introduced the course – Writing For The Mass Media – today. We looked at the course outline and commenced with the definition of basic concepts such as mass media, mass media writing and news. We discussed the hard news and soft news. We also looked at the news elements. As a journalist you ought to understand the meaning of news and how to determine what is news worthy. That was why we defined news value today as the key determinants of news. We also said news elements are the key questions that guide journalists in writing a good news piece.
Questions :
1. List the six news elements we mentioned in class today.
2. Define news
3. What do you understand by the inverted pyramid style?
Make sure you write your quiz number. Provide your answer as a comment to this post. Deadline for the quiz is 7.30 tomorrow morning.
1)The six news elements are:
a.what
b.who
c.when
d.where
e.why and
f.how.
2) News is defined as any occurant occurance reported through the media by a reporter or a journalist to the audience. It could also be defined as a timely report of happenings that are of interest to the audience of a medium.
3) The inverted pyramid style is basically for straight news reports,it presents a story from the most important to the least important facts.
Good work but please always read your work a second time before posting.
Quiz number: 4. Reg no:2016304006. 1)The six news elements are:
a.what
b.who
c.when
d.where
e.why and
f.how.
2) News is defined as any occurant occurance reported through the media by a reporter or a journalist to the audience. It could also be defined as a timely report of happenings that are of interest to the audience of a medium.
3) The inverted pyramid style is basically for straight news reports,it presents a story from the most important to the least important facts.
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Quiz number 3, reg number 2016304005
1)a.who
b.where
c.what
d.when
e.why and
f. How.
2)News is defined as timely report of happenings that are of interest to the audience of a medium.
3) Inverted pyramid style is presents a story from the most important to the least important facts.
Nice work.
Reg no. 2016304007. Quiz no. 5
1. What, where, when, why, who, how
2. News is any current occurance reported through the media by Journalist. It has to be a timely occurance reported through the media by Journalist.
The Inverted pyramid format is a way of presenting facts.
Reg no 2010304007. Quiz no 5
1. What, where, when, why, who, how.
2. News is any current occurance reported through the media by Journalist. It has be a timely occurance reported through the media by Journalist.
3. The Inverted pyramid format is a way of presenting facts.
Good attempt but you need to check your spellings and proofread your work before posting
Quiz number 3, reg number 2016304005
1)a.who
b.where
c.what
d.when
e.why and
f. How.
2)News is defined as timely report of happenings that are of interest to the audience of a medium.
3) Inverted pyramid style is presents a story from the most important to the least important facts.