BULLETIN: Chapter 4 Objectives and Vocabulary

UNIT/CHAPTER: Chapter 4: Organizing the Staff to Capture the News (p.82)

GOALS OBJECTIVES: After discussing the chapter, students will:

1. understand both traditional and modern newspaper-staff organization
2. understand the role of teamwork in news organizations
3. be familiar with ways to break long stories into more palatable pieces
4. know some of the basic sources for news
5. the structure of an efficient news gathering operation.

VOCABULARY TERMS:

1. publisher (principal)
2. editor-in-chief
3. main bar
4. managing editor
5. journalism adviser
6. sidebar
7. beat reporter
8. “cub” reporters
9. general assignment reporter
10. future book
11. tips
12. jump
13. wire services
14. WED (or maestro)
15. primary source
16. secondary source
17. professional source
18. person-on-the-street source
19. anonymous source
20. pseudonym
21. physical source
22. morgue
23. back issues
24. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)