Chat with AIExam 13: What About Other Kinds of News Stories
You notice that a fellow staffer who writes for the education beat always places the administration's quotes first and high in the story. A faculty member usually comes in the middle of the story. The student voice is after that. What could you share with the staffer about the relationship between a story's structure and its fairness?
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VerifiedAnswers will vary, but students should say that, because of the prominence the first voice enjoys relative to voices that come lower in stories, if the administration is always at the top of the story, it may seem like the reporter is indicating that it is the most important voice for the audience to consider. This could be unfair to the other voices who come lower in the story. One way to mitigate the influence of this effect is to vary the first voice across coverage of an event or across stories on a beat.
Please a.) group the information in the following fact set into pods, b.) number the pods in the order you'd place them in your story and c.) write a brief description of what each pod's purpose is.
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Answered by Examlex AI Copilota.) The information in the fact set can be grouped into the following pods:
Pod 1: Background information on the main character
Pod 2: Setting of the story
Pod 3: Conflict or problem
Pod 4: Resolution or outcome
b.) The pods would be numbered in the following order:
1. Pod 2: Setting of the story
2. Pod 1: Background information on the main character
3. Pod 3: Conflict or problem
4. Pod 4: Resolution or outcome
c.) The purpose of each pod is as follows:
- Pod 1: To provide context and understanding of the main character's background and motivations.
- Pod 2: To set the stage and create a visual and emotional backdrop for the story.
- Pod 3: To introduce the central conflict or problem that drives the narrative forward.
- Pod 4: To reveal the resolution or outcome of the conflict, providing closure for the story.
In our discussion of organizing news stories, a pod refers to which of the following?
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A transition in a news story provides connections among sentences, thoughts and/or paragraphs.
(89) Write an 8- to 9-paragraph story using the fact set below. Use a descriptive lead and include a nut graph. Provide transitions to guide your reader.
(81) Which of the following is a potential problem with a story that simply presents two contradictory sides of an issue equally?
(71) The information you gather for a story is likely to be grouped in your notes according to each source-and that's the best organization for the news story itself.
(111) Which of the following is true about using transitions in a news story?
(82) Which of the following could provide more legitimacy to some sources than others?
(85) A news story's structure and placement of sources have nothing to do with fairness.
(99) A friend of yours, who knows that you are studying journalism, offers you this opinion:
As long as you give both sides equal time or space in a story, it'll be fair.
What would you respond? What example would you give to illustrate your point?
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