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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 journalists 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. journalists and citizens, it involves judging other countries and cultures according to how they live up to or imitate American practices and ideals |
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| An underlying value that assumes that businesspeople compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but to increase prosperity for all |
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| An underlying value that favors the small over the large and the rural over the urban |
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| An underlying value that favors individual rights and responsibilities over group needs or institutional mandates |
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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 people's privacy or exploiting their personal tragedies |
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| 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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