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Writing for Digital Media

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  • Descriptions help readers visualize people and places. The best descriptions use
    concrete, factual details.
  • An important decision a reporter must make about using video on the Web is whether
    it will be used to tell the whole story or just to emphasize or dramatize certain parts of the story.
  • News stories published on the Web often use a
    sans serif typeface, such as Arial or Helvetica.
  • Three uses of video in Web news stories are
    breaking-news video, highlight video and documentary-style video.
  • A good transitional sentence
    presents some interesting details about the new topic.
  • Some experts on blogging, say blogs should be updated a minimum of
    two or three times a week.
  • Because of the Internet, readers are now able to
    jump in and out of the standard sequence of a news story.
  • News stories presented on the Web often
    are packages combining words, sound, video and still photos.
  • If there is humor in a news story, it should be apparent
    from the facts of the story.
  • Reporters say one of the requirements for a successful blog is
    producing fresh content regularly to hold readers’ attention.
  • The ability of a community to collectively contribute to the flow of information is called
    crowdsourcing.
  • Which of the following things should reporters shooting pictures for use with Web stories NOT try to do?
    Stay in one place.
  • The process of reporting and presenting news stories has shifted from
    linear to nonlinear.
  • In planning a blog, the writer must decide
    what will be the blog’s purpose and what it will cover.
  • Reporters should think of news stories for the Web as a tree with
    the central point as the trunk and the written story, audio, video, photographs and links as major branches.
  • Publishing brief text messages through instant messaging, email or the Web is called
    microblogging.
  • Three uses of audio in Web news stories are
    podcasts, interviews and environmental sound.
  • Most stories on news websites are
    one to three Web pages in length.
  • If a news story reports on a controversy in which one person has made accusations against another, the reporter should
    include the response of the accused party in the same story.
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