LEARNING STATION

Summer Workshop on Campus Journalism

NEWS WRITING

Name:
Direction: Identify what is described in each of the following sentences.
Choose your answer from the choices inside the box. Write the letter of your
answer on the space provided before each number.
a. punchy
active

b. novelty

e. accuracy
brevity

f. editorializing

c. lead

d.

g. inverted

h.

______ 1. It is a characteristic of a news story which refers to the correctness

and preciseness of facts and information presented.
______ 2. It is a characteristic of a news story that suggests: Keep It Short and
Simple (KISS).
______ 3. It is an element of news which calls for the freshness and newness
of a story or event.
______ 4. It is an element of news which refers to the oddity or the state of
being not ordinary of events.
______ 5. News stories generally follow the ___________ pyramid style.
______ 6. It is the key to the story. Reading it could mean reading the whole
story already.
______ 7. The __________ lead is a type of lead that provides the most
important of the five Ws and H elements. It gets the basic information up
front.
______ 8. News leads should be short, ___________ and informative.
______ 9. In news writing, one must avoid __________________ or giving of
opinion to the story.
______ 10. __________ voice must be used in news writing for it is about actors
and action.

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3 Things I Learned

2 Interesting Facts

1 Question I Have