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Journalism Vocab
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
General manager
Immediate-identification lead
Story
Take
2. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Pulitzer Prize
Follow
Cutline
Screens
3. A beginning reporter.
Byline
Cub
Background
Bias
4. A completed television news story on tape which is edited before a news show goes on air and contains reporter's stand-ups narration over images and an out-cue for the anchor to start speaking at the end of the tape
Package
Sidebar
Jump line
Civil law
5. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Brightener
Column
Sources
6. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Cover
Jargon
Background
Credibility
7. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Shirttail
Shield laws
Angle
Human interest story
8. The name of the reporter
By-line
Cub
Editorialize
Story
9. 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
Inverted pyramid
B-roll
Libel
Investigative journalism
10. A line identifying the author of a story.
Byline
Lay out(v.)
Shield laws
Sources
11. Video images shot specifically to be used over a reporter's words to illustrate the news event or story to cover up audio edits of quotes (to avoid the jerking head effect) or to cover up bad shots (out of focus poorly lighted etc.)
Kicker
Participant observation
Feature article
B-roll
12. Newsroom library
Inverted pyramid
Sidebar
Morgue
Civil law
13. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Story
Verification
Stringer
Pulitzer Prize
14. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Rules
Beat
Sources
Graf
15. A story including a number of related events.
Off the record
Lead story
roundup
Jump line
16. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
roundup
Brightener
Plagiarism
Puff piece or puffery
17. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Op-ed page
Editorialize
Pulitzer Prize
Date line
18. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Add
Anecdotal lead
HFR
Clips
19. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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20. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Verification
Background
Crony journalism
Deck
21. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
HFR
Take
Editor
Follow
22. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Beat
Morgue
Caption
Background
23. Abbreviation for paragraph
Actual malice
Graf
Deck
Stringer
24. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Puff piece or puffery
Masthead
Copy
Inverted pyramid
25. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Sidebar
Lead story
Cover
Sources
26. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Clips
Voice
Follow
Paraphrase
27. Believability of a writer or publication
Voice
Profile
Anecdotal lead
Credibility
28. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Clips
Pulitzer Prize
Add
Jump
29. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Jump line
Tip
Layout (n.)
Date line
30. 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.
Human interest story
Editorial
Actual malice
Cub
31. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Caption
Source
Participant observation
Cub
32. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Lay out(v.)
Shirttail
Jump
Clips
33. The completed page drawing.
Puff piece or puffery
B-roll
Layout (n.)
Lay out(v.)
34. Damage to a person's reputation caused by a false written statement that brings the person into hatred contempt or ridicule or injures his or her business or occupation.
Immediate-identification lead
Libel
Soft news
Byline
35. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Attribution
HFR
Profile
Futures files
36. 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
Column
Crop
Soft news
Screens
37. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
Crop
HFR
Crony journalism
Multiple-element lead
38. Information that is not intended for publication
Shirttail
Add
Take
Background
39. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Cutline
By-line
Sources
Jargon
40. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Profile
AP The Associated Press
Trend story
Inverted pyramid
41. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Multiple-element lead
HFR
Kicker
Caption
42. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Lay out(v.)
Banner
Editorial
Civil law
43. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Actual malice
Closed-ended question
General manager
Source
44. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Editor
B-roll
Voice
Pulitzer Prize
45. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Source
Screens
Inverted pyramid
Copy
46. 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
Stringer
Voice
Human interest story
Package
47. Services that provide news from around the world to publications that subscribe for a fee (e.g. Associated Press Canadian Press Reuters and United Press International)
Wire services
Actual malice
Screens
General manager
48. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Stringer
Sidebar
Rules
Pulitzer Prize
49. The opening paragraph of a story that reports two or more newsworthy elements.
Multiple-element lead
Cover
General manager
Stringer
50. The place the story was filed
Cover
Date line
Background
Closed-ended question