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Journalism Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Profile
Follow
Sidebar
Exclusive
2. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
By-line
Source
Immediate-identification lead
AP The Associated Press
3. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Crony journalism
Feature article
Civil law
General manager
4. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Paraphrase
Circulation department
Angle
Immediate-identification lead
5. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Bias
Screens
Crony journalism
Off the record
6. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Follow
Exclusive
Clips
Shirttail
7. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Angle
Anecdotal lead
Source
Lead story
8. A feature story that focuses on the current fads directions tendencies and inclinations of society
Lay out(v.)
Trend story
Kicker
Deck
9. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Morgue
Take
By-line
Crop
10. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Brightener
Add
Credibility
Column
11. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Background
General manager
Crop
Beat
12. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Anecdotal lead
Closed-ended question
Beat
Verification
13. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
AP The Associated Press
Lead story
Kicker
Civil law
14. 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
Brightener
Stringer
B-roll
Investigative journalism
15. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Profile
Circulation department
Masthead
Sidebar
16. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Cub
Futures files
Bias
roundup
17. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Soft news
Attribution
Futures files
Column
18. 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
Clips
Circulation department
Sources
19. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Spin
Pulitzer Prize
Editorial
Bias
20. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Lay out(v.)
Morgue
Shield laws
Lead or 'lede'
21. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Story
Actual malice
Shield laws
Sidebar
22. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Credibility
Banner
Story
Voice
23. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Crop
Jump line
Plagiarism
Tip
24. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Libel
Wire services
Package
Exclusive
25. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Feature article
Bias
Jargon
Brightener
26. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Tip
Copy
Crop
Paraphrase
27. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Bias
Morgue
roundup
Hard news stories
28. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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29. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Participant observation
Story
Feature article
Editor
30. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Kicker
HFR
Clips
Package
31. The completed page drawing.
Banner
Jump line
Package
Layout (n.)
32. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Libel
Jargon
Press
Story
33. In libel law a reckless disregard for the truth such as when a reporter or an editor knows that a statement is false and prints or airs it anyway.
Jump line
Actual malice
By-line
Editor
34. 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
Puff piece or puffery
Date line
Voice
Editor
35. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
HFR
Off the record
Jump
Lead story
36. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Sidebar
Spin
Take
Source
37. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Sidebar
Slander
Exclusive
Rules
38. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Anecdotal lead
Date line
Clips
Attribution
39. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Story
Participant observation
Verification
Byline
40. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Editorialize
Futures files
Attribution
Verification
41. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Attribution
Credibility
Copy
Shield laws
42. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Byline
Deck
Editorialize
Screens
43. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Rules
Bias
Caption
Voice
44. A position that is partial or slanted
Trend story
Crony journalism
Human interest story
Bias
45. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Package
Byline
Stringer
Closed-ended question
46. A line identifying the author of a story.
General manager
Byline
Beat
Stringer
47. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Editorial
Stringer
Add
Participant observation
48. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Immediate-identification lead
Follow
Screens
Copy
49. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Column
Lead story
Angle
Off the record
50. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Immediate-identification lead
Editor
Press
Brightener