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Journalism Vocab
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1. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Credibility
Beat
Investigative journalism
Cover
2. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Press
Closed-ended question
Wire services
Civil law
3. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Sidebar
Hard news stories
Add
Graf
4. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Closed-ended question
Jump
Sources
Lay out(v.)
5. The name of the reporter
Lay out(v.)
By-line
Jump line
Puff piece or puffery
6. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Caption
Attribution
Pulitzer Prize
Shirttail
7. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Human interest story
Immediate-identification lead
Inverted pyramid
Sidebar
8. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Brightener
Closed-ended question
Story
Jump line
9. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Follow
Slander
Credibility
Spin
10. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Op-ed page
Slander
Plagiarism
Sources
11. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Pulitzer Prize
Caption
Add
Immediate-identification lead
12. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Press
Add
Shield laws
Angle
13. Story that requires a great amount of research and hard work to come up with facts that might be hidden buried or obscured by people who have a vested interest in keeping those facts from being published
Civil law
Investigative journalism
Closed-ended question
Gutter
14. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Kicker
Inverted pyramid
Caption
Crop
15. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Screens
Participant observation
General manager
Profile
16. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Bias
Spin
Shield laws
Jump line
17. Abbreviation for paragraph
Graf
Cutline
Investigative journalism
Trend story
18. A position that is partial or slanted
Editorial
Bias
Take
Circulation department
19. A column of copy and/or graphics which appears on the page of a magazine or newspaper to communicate information about the story or contents of the paper
Participant observation
Jump
Follow
Sidebar
20. The major story on top of page one.
Libel
Lead story
Sidebar
Tip
21. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Lead or 'lede'
Slander
Inverted pyramid
Sidebar
22. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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23. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
AP The Associated Press
Add
Caption
Plagiarism
24. The place the story was filed
Package
Follow
Off the record
Date line
25. A feature story that focuses on the current fads directions tendencies and inclinations of society
Inverted pyramid
Trend story
Plagiarism
Profile
26. A writer's development of distinctive characteristics and idiosyncrasies of language use that make his or her writing as easily recognizable as the inflections tone and pronunciation of speech that make a person's vocalized speech pat terns distinc
Story
Voice
Take
AP The Associated Press
27. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Sidebar
Jargon
Puff piece or puffery
Human interest story
28. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Soft news
Graf
Paraphrase
Caption
29. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
By-line
Multiple-element lead
Participant observation
Editorialize
30. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Column
Sidebar
Angle
Profile
31. Information that is not intended for publication
Background
Bias
Shield laws
Tip
32. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Morgue
Soft news
Pulitzer Prize
General manager
33. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Cutline
Crony journalism
Off the record
Story
34. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Add
Sources
Banner
Date line
35. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Stringer
Inverted pyramid
Civil law
AP The Associated Press
36. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
Anecdotal lead
Investigative journalism
General manager
Feature article
37. Usually means 'don't quote me.'
Off the record
Attribution
Civil law
Op-ed page
38. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Caption
Anecdotal lead
Package
Inverted pyramid
39. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Libel
Background
Editorial
Civil law
40. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Jump line
Actual malice
Story
Verification
41. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Crop
Investigative journalism
Profile
Follow
42. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Gutter
Lay out(v.)
Crony journalism
Off the record
43. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Layout (n.)
Actual malice
Lead story
Editorialize
44. Stories that are interesting but less important than hard news - focusing on people as well as facts and information and including interviews reviews articles and editorials
Soft news
Circulation department
Slander
Shield laws
45. Line of type at the bottom of a column which directs the reader to somewhere else in the paper where the story is completed allowing more space for stories to begin on the front page
Jump line
Cutline
Banner
Kicker
46. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Editor
Byline
Brightener
47. An indirect quote or summary of the words the news maker said - condensing and clarifying a quotation to convey the meaning more precisely than the way the speaker expressed it.
Paraphrase
Column
Layout (n.)
Copy
48. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Editorialize
Tip
Masthead
Closed-ended question
49. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Circulation department
Follow
Shirttail
Jump line
50. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Beat
Voice
Byline
Stringer