Professional Documents
Culture Documents
a presentation
for Capas, Tarlac 2014
by
Charito P. Palanca
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SPELLING :
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CAPITALIZATION
Follow the generally accepted
rules for capitalization so that you can recognize the
beginnings of sentences, proper nouns, street
names, and so forth.
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4. PUNCTUATION:
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ATTRIBUTION:
Attribution in a broadcast news story must be
presented in an honest, responsible and complete
manner.
Attribution must be used in the following situations:
An opinion is expressed in the news story.
Potentially inflammatory statement is used in the
story.
Facts may be suspect or questioned in the future.
Story information may be controversial
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EDITING
Provide news copies that are clean, clear and easy to
read. Copy must be retyped if too many corrections
are noted. Common copy readying symbols may be
used in editing for radio broadcast news stories.
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2. WRITE CONCISELY.
3. SIMPLIFY COMPLICATED IDEAS.
4. RESEARCH AND VERIFY ALL
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INFORMATION.
AVOID NEWSPAPER CONSTRUCTION.
DONT GIVE ORDERS.
DONT BURY A STRONG VERB IN A NOUN
DONY CHARACTERIZE THE NEWS AS
GOOD, BAD, INTERSTING, OR SHOCKING.
Let the readers decide what is good or bad.
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2. CONCISE
3. CONVERSATIONAL
4. CORRECT
5. CLEAR