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Journalism Vocab
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1. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Delayed-identification lead
Column
Exclusive
Hard news stories
2. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Shield laws
Closed-ended question
Profile
AP The Associated Press
3. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Circulation department
Lead story
Hard news stories
Gutter
4. A beginning reporter.
Paraphrase
Actual malice
Profile
Cub
5. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Profile
Date line
Screens
Rules
6. A position that is partial or slanted
Bias
Crony journalism
Gutter
Deck
7. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Participant observation
Human interest story
Bias
Copy
8. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Jump
Closed-ended question
Sources
Clips
9. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Rules
AP The Associated Press
Puff piece or puffery
Angle
10. A page in a newspaper that is opposite the editorial page and contains columns articles letters for readers and other items expressing opinions
Column
Add
Op-ed page
Rules
11. The place the story was filed
Date line
Cutline
Circulation department
Editorialize
12. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
By-line
Caption
Pulitzer Prize
Attribution
13. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Off the record
Shield laws
Inverted pyramid
Trend story
14. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
Trend story
Feature article
Editor
Shirttail
15. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Angle
Closed-ended question
HFR
Op-ed page
16. 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.)
B-roll
Rules
Trend story
Crop
17. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Editorialize
Background
Civil law
Source
18. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Exclusive
Column
Off the record
Sidebar
19. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Spin
Screens
Date line
Multiple-element lead
20. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
General manager
Puff piece or puffery
Verification
Sidebar
21. A feature story that focuses on the current fads directions tendencies and inclinations of society
Trend story
Stringer
Gutter
Puff piece or puffery
22. 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.
Graf
Inverted pyramid
Paraphrase
Press
23. Publicity story or a story that contains unwarranted superlatives.
Multiple-element lead
Sidebar
Puff piece or puffery
Investigative journalism
24. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Caption
Press
Stringer
Byline
25. 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
Wire services
Hard news stories
Circulation department
Soft news
26. 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)
Pulitzer Prize
Spin
Inverted pyramid
Wire services
27. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Hard news stories
Bias
Byline
Plagiarism
28. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Voice
Op-ed page
Brightener
Bias
29. 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
Editorialize
Actual malice
roundup
30. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Libel
Attribution
Brightener
Shield laws
31. A story including a number of related events.
Civil law
Press
Add
roundup
32. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
By-line
Futures files
Pulitzer Prize
Package
33. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Voice
Clips
Attribution
Date line
34. Newsroom library
Morgue
Bias
Closed-ended question
Investigative journalism
35. Opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is identified by occupation city office or any means other than by name.
Kicker
Tip
Delayed-identification lead
Cub
36. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Immediate-identification lead
Take
Exclusive
Shield laws
37. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Slander
Verification
Cub
Crony journalism
38. The opening paragraph of a story that reports two or more newsworthy elements.
Story
Jump
Angle
Multiple-element lead
39. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Cover
Editor
Column
Gutter
40. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Press
Jump line
Package
Anecdotal lead
41. Abbreviation for paragraph
Copy
Feature article
Immediate-identification lead
Graf
42. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
HFR
Bias
Credibility
Take
43. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Exclusive
Actual malice
Brightener
Kicker
44. A story that focuses on the human side of news and often appeals to the readers' emotion - a piece valued more for its emotional impact or oddity than for its importance.
Voice
Human interest story
Futures files
Deck
45. The name of the reporter
Profile
HFR
By-line
Wire services
46. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Follow
Attribution
Banner
Editorialize
47. 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
Hard news stories
Voice
Copy
roundup
48. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Source
Pulitzer Prize
Gutter
Plagiarism
49. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Source
Editorialize
Tip
Hard news stories
50. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Crop
Inverted pyramid
Lead story
Exclusive
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