Leads Review

The lead should answer all six of these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

• True

• False

What is the name for the most commonly used news lead?

• Starting Lead

• Chronological Lead

• Summary Lead

• Introductory Lead

What word should be removed from the following sentence to make it more objective?

The Kansas City Chiefs have a terrible defensive line.

• Kansas City

• Chiefs

• defensive

• terrible

Leads often omit the names of the people involved in news stories because

• no one will care who is involved.

• their identities are less important than what happened to them.

• ethical journalists always omit the names of people involved in news events.

• the names are best left to the last paragraph of the story.

The best verbs for leads are

• passive-voice verbs.

• compound verbs.

• active-voice verbs.