journalism news gathering vocab

novelty

human interest

emotional story

primary source

written by a witness (public record, letter)

secondary source

info passed down from an

individual to the person getting interviewed

reports from articles, magizines (primary)

validity

unbiased

reliability

primary research is found from unbiased researchers

crowdsourcing

gaining info from social media/internet (unreliable)

open source journalism

reporters and citizens share information

database

searched in computer

database of articles (keywords) and data (connections)

open record

reporters access government recs

sunshine law

meeting, records, can be viewed for observation

gov meetings held in advance for public

2 part question

2 questions can make the person being interviewed more likely to respond

attribution

source that gives info Abt the story

probe

fully investigate

gotcha

forces sources to give damaging info that will discredit them

confirmation

information supported by evidence by fact checking ,info is taken 1st from 2nd hand sources

on deep background

a source with NO attribution

backround

an unnamed source for

publication,

confidential sources

public concern, cannot get info on record, verifible with 1st hand knowledge, why the source cannot be named

off the record

information is given but not printed, an agreement

on the record

Information given by a source may be used

with full attribution.

soundbite

short clip

from a longer piece of dialogue.

read back

reading back the comments made by

the interviewee.

verification

Reading back or reviewing

quotes with a source