Journalism Reporting Vocabulary

Feature and human interest, informational, educational, emotional or entertaining stories

• Hard news 
• breaking news
• soft news
• enterprise news 

News that is happening now and that journalists must cover live and on deadline

• breaking news
• hard news
• soft news
• enterprise news

non-breaking news, in-depth or investigative reporting

• enterprise news
• hard news
• soft news
• profiles

serious or important topic and has a sense of immediacy 

• breaking news
• enterprise news
• hard news
• soft news

A story about a(n) ? would be considered a hard news story

• upcoming art show
• a musician's new album
• an earthquake
• new business

A story about a(n) ? would be considered a soft story

• government passing a new law
• fire
• an ordinary person winning a prize
• crime 

(?) organize staff with a system of topics or areas of coverage

• beats
• general assignment reports
• pitching
• profiles

people who become good subjects for stories

• general assignments
• profiles
• trends
• beats

when something unique becomes mainstream

• beat
• pitching
• trends
• tipping point

Which is an example of a television trend? 

• The evening news
• car commericials
• reality shows
• cartoons