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Journalism Vocab
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1. A story including a number of related events.
Circulation department
roundup
HFR
Gutter
2. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
Feature article
Anecdotal lead
Actual malice
Participant observation
3. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Sources
Stringer
Take
Rules
4. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Wire services
Background
Sidebar
Sources
5. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Gutter
Immediate-identification lead
Date line
Wire services
6. 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)
Beat
Lead or 'lede'
Profile
Wire services
7. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Story
Cutline
HFR
Attribution
8. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Hard news stories
Follow
Masthead
Source
9. 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.
Date line
Hard news stories
Shirttail
Libel
10. The completed page drawing.
Layout (n.)
Closed-ended question
Caption
Gutter
11. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Brightener
B-roll
Graf
Column
12. 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
Exclusive
Editorial
Screens
13. A beginning reporter.
Graf
Cover
Cub
Editorialize
14. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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15. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Slander
Story
Caption
Paraphrase
16. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
HFR
Rules
Kicker
Plagiarism
17. Newsroom library
Sidebar
Banner
Morgue
Press
18. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Voice
Copy
Background
Morgue
19. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Sidebar
Add
Stringer
Lead story
20. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Sidebar
Sources
Cover
Anecdotal lead
21. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Beat
Pulitzer Prize
Voice
Hard news stories
22. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Paraphrase
Tip
Graf
Take
23. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Futures files
Copy
Human interest story
Soft news
24. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Stringer
Plagiarism
Deck
Anecdotal lead
25. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Attribution
Pulitzer Prize
Screens
Voice
26. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Actual malice
Jump
Background
Pulitzer Prize
27. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Editorialize
Deck
Futures files
AP The Associated Press
28. 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.
Beat
Morgue
Human interest story
Jump line
29. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Profile
Actual malice
Exclusive
Libel
30. 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
Voice
Source
Off the record
Sidebar
31. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Futures files
Gutter
Follow
Multiple-element lead
32. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Date line
Editor
Column
Background
33. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
HFR
Masthead
Futures files
Banner
34. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Cutline
Puff piece or puffery
Clips
Crony journalism
35. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Morgue
Delayed-identification lead
Editorialize
Spin
36. The place the story was filed
Multiple-element lead
Trend story
Exclusive
Date line
37. 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.
Package
Exclusive
Actual malice
Soft news
38. The major story on top of page one.
Shirttail
Background
Circulation department
Lead story
39. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Participant observation
Deck
Actual malice
Cutline
40. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Bias
Source
Angle
Futures files
41. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Jump line
Voice
Shield laws
Editor
42. A page in a newspaper that is opposite the editorial page and contains columns articles letters for readers and other items expressing opinions
Op-ed page
Lead or 'lede'
Attribution
Credibility
43. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Closed-ended question
Voice
Beat
Screens
44. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Multiple-element lead
Deck
Futures files
Inverted pyramid
45. Abbreviation for paragraph
Graf
Source
Actual malice
Press
46. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Crony journalism
Add
Cover
Participant observation
47. 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
Puff piece or puffery
Hard news stories
Jump line
Package
48. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
General manager
Jump
Investigative journalism
Anecdotal lead
49. 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
Beat
Feature article
Lead or 'lede'
Investigative journalism
50. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
Source
HFR
Jump line
Layout (n.)
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