List and describe the different types of reporting beats.

What will be an ideal response?


Thematic beats focus on specific aspects of coverage, such as police news, court coverage, higher education reporting, and religious information. Thematic beats can involve a wide geographic area or be concentrated in several key areas within the circulation range of a traditional publication. In the case of geographic beats, coverage efforts are more about the physical place and what is happening there than any particular aspect of one thematic area. Conceptual beats focus on things that lack a concrete definition or a central junction point for coverage.

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a. refers to the use of multiple frames of reference to understand intercultural communication. b. indicates a heightened and exclusive focus on global issues in intercultural communication. c. highlights the ways in which our perspectives, our views on ourselves, others, and the world around us are always and inevitably limited by cultural frames. d. focuses on stereotyping other groups based on one’s own assumptions and prejudices.

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Which of the following has the general purpose of "to

inform"? a. a speech on how to make cupcakes b. a eulogy c. a speech arguing for health care reform d. a speech commemorating 9/11 victims

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In the context of paralanguage, _____ is the loudness or softness of vocal tone.

a. pitch b. volume c. rate d. timbre

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This inventor of the telegraph talked Congress into spending $30,000 to string electricity-conducting wire 41 miles from Washington to Baltimore

A) Thomas Edison B) Samuel Morse C) Emile Berliner D) William Dickson

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