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| The process of gathering information and making narrative reports- edited by individuals in a news organization that create selected frames of reference and help the public make sense of prominent people, important events, and unusual happenings in everyday life. |
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| The often unstated criteria that journalist use to determine which events and issues should become news reports, including timeliness, proximity, conflict, prominence, human interest, consequence, usefulness, novelty, and deviance. |
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| an underlying value held by many U.S. journalist and citizens, it involves judging other countries and cultures according to how they live up to imitate American practices and ideals. |
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| an underlying value held by many U.S. journalist and citizens, it assumes that business people compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but to increase prosperity for all. |
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| an underlying value held by many U.S. journalist and citizens, it favors the small over the large and the rural over the urban. |
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| an underlying value held by many U.S. journalist and citizens, it favors individual rights and responsibilities over group needs or institutional mandates. |
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| Considered unethical, a compromising situation in which a journalist stands to benefit personally from the news report he or she produces. |
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| a situation in which reporters stake out a house or follow a story in such large groups that the entire profession comes under attack for invading peoples privacy or exploiting their personal tragedies. |
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| In TV journalism, the equivalent of a quote in print; the part of a news report in which an expert, a celebrity, a victim, or a person on the street is interviewed about some aspect of an event or issue. |
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| a type of journalism, driven by citizen forums, that goes beyond telling the news to embrace a broader mission of improving the quality of public life; also called civic journalism. |
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