Print Media: From Topic to Idea - By
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| 00:09 | Hello . Welcome to Unit three words in print . | |
| 00:13 | In units one and two . We talked about the | |
| 00:15 | history of journalism journalistic principles , deciding on and researching | |
| 00:19 | a topic and interviewing sources in this unit will talk | |
| 00:23 | only about print media or written news sources In video | |
| 00:28 | one . We'll talk about the process of writing a | |
| 00:30 | story in a newspaper and the general structure of an | |
| 00:33 | article . Let's start with the process from draft to | |
| 00:37 | print . We've talked about how to take a topic | |
| 00:40 | and turn it into a pitch and then research that | |
| 00:43 | story idea by interviewing sources and gathering documents . Now | |
| 00:47 | a journalist is ready to write the article . Generally | |
| 00:50 | the first step is to create an outline . This | |
| 00:53 | helps organize the content of an article . Before it's | |
| 00:57 | written a journalist outline could look like this notice the | |
| 01:04 | ideas are not written in full sentences yet . An | |
| 01:08 | outline only focuses on where the sentences will go in | |
| 01:11 | the article the next phase and the journalist process is | |
| 01:17 | drafting now that the journalist knows the order of the | |
| 01:20 | ideas . They can write their first draft . A | |
| 01:24 | draft is the first try at writing the article in | |
| 01:26 | sentences and paragraphs . Once the draft is completed , | |
| 01:33 | it's taken to a copy editor who makes sure or | |
| 01:36 | checks that the article is clear , connected , understandable | |
| 01:41 | and written and as few words as possible . The | |
| 01:47 | copy editor is similar to an editor of a book | |
| 01:50 | or of a paper , but a copy editor doesn't | |
| 01:52 | always change the words of the journalist . The copy | |
| 01:56 | editor sees the big picture of the newspaper . He | |
| 01:58 | or she knows how much space is available for a | |
| 02:01 | particular story . A journalist only focuses on their story | |
| 02:05 | . The copy editor has to make sure that article | |
| 02:08 | fits with the rest of the newspaper in size , | |
| 02:11 | tone and style . Once the draft is approved by | |
| 02:15 | the copy editor , the final draft is sent to | |
| 02:18 | print . Now that we understand the process , let's | |
| 02:24 | talk a little bit about the structure of a news | |
| 02:27 | story . There are several parts other than the article | |
| 02:31 | that the journalist needs to create for every story . | |
| 02:35 | Let's start at the top . The first thing the | |
| 02:37 | reader sees is the headline . The headline is a | |
| 02:41 | title that should give the main idea of the article | |
| 02:44 | but also capture the reader's attention . The second part | |
| 02:52 | of the article is the byline . This identifies the | |
| 02:56 | author and the authors job . Sometimes the byline can | |
| 02:59 | include the date and the location of the main event | |
| 03:02 | described in the article . The next part is the | |
| 03:13 | lead . The lead is the first paragraph of an | |
| 03:16 | article and it often tries to give the most important | |
| 03:19 | facts and information who , what , where , when | |
| 03:25 | , why and how we'll talk in the next two | |
| 03:28 | videos about different types of leads and how to create | |
| 03:31 | a lead in the body section of the article . | |
| 03:34 | The journalists usually includes several quotes or information from other | |
| 03:39 | sources that are details of the news story . The | |
| 03:48 | final sentences in the article are the conclusion . Sometimes | |
| 03:52 | journalists will use a final quote to end the article | |
| 03:56 | or they'll add a summarizing statement . Finally , many | |
| 04:02 | journalists include images , graphs or maps that accompany the | |
| 04:06 | article . These generally have a caption below the image | |
| 04:10 | . The caption is a small explanation of the image | |
| 04:14 | and will include the photographer's name . To summarize before | |
| 04:21 | an article is printed . Journalists must complete three steps | |
| 04:25 | in the writing process . These are creating an outline | |
| 04:29 | , writing a draft and getting approval from a copy | |
| 04:32 | editor . Once the article itself is written , a | |
| 04:35 | headline byline lead body and conclusion are also created . | |
| 04:40 | Captions should be written to accompany any image or graph | |
| 04:45 | . In the next video , we'll talk more about | |
| 04:47 | article leads . |
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We've talked about how to take a topic and turn it in to a pitch, and then research that story idea by interviewing sources and gathering documents. Now, a journalist is ready to write the article. In this video, we'll talk about the process of writing a story in a newspaper and the general structure of an article. Let's start with the process from draft to print.
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