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Journalism Vocab
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1. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Lead or 'lede'
Bias
Banner
Clips
2. A line identifying the author of a story.
Lay out(v.)
Byline
Circulation department
Multiple-element lead
3. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Voice
Spin
Follow
By-line
4. A page in a newspaper that is opposite the editorial page and contains columns articles letters for readers and other items expressing opinions
Sidebar
Immediate-identification lead
Bias
Op-ed page
5. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Morgue
Lead story
Hard news stories
Plagiarism
6. Abbreviation for paragraph
Graf
Deck
Bias
Feature article
7. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
By-line
Graf
Banner
Beat
8. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Byline
Brightener
Plagiarism
Screens
9. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Shield laws
Story
Take
Caption
10. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Editorial
Hard news stories
Credibility
Editorialize
11. Newsroom library
Morgue
Puff piece or puffery
Brightener
Crony journalism
12. The completed page drawing.
Feature article
Masthead
Layout (n.)
General manager
13. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Spin
By-line
Crop
Kicker
14. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
HFR
Lead or 'lede'
Soft news
Column
15. Opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is identified by occupation city office or any means other than by name.
Screens
Plagiarism
Delayed-identification lead
Lead story
16. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Jump line
Editor
Jump
Press
17. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Exclusive
Jargon
Caption
Lead story
18. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Column
General manager
Sidebar
Story
19. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Wire services
Lead story
Editorial
Profile
20. 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
Story
Morgue
Jump
21. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Voice
Deck
Verification
Delayed-identification lead
22. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Jargon
Date line
Hard news stories
Op-ed page
23. The place the story was filed
Cutline
Date line
Immediate-identification lead
Delayed-identification lead
24. 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.
Voice
Libel
Deck
Cub
25. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Actual malice
Crop
AP The Associated Press
Verification
26. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Deck
Angle
Crony journalism
Sidebar
27. A beginning reporter.
Jump
Credibility
Trend story
Cub
28. 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
Editorial
By-line
Jump
29. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Editor
Hard news stories
Caption
Exclusive
30. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
AP The Associated Press
Deck
Clips
Soft news
31. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
HFR
Jump
Copy
Civil law
32. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Column
Trend story
Follow
Shirttail
33. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Morgue
Clips
Closed-ended question
Credibility
34. 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.)
Clips
Verification
Immediate-identification lead
B-roll
35. A position that is partial or slanted
Beat
Credibility
Masthead
Bias
36. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Source
Soft news
Puff piece or puffery
Exclusive
37. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Masthead
Libel
Beat
Banner
38. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Actual malice
Shield laws
Clips
Layout (n.)
39. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Pulitzer Prize
Wire services
Spin
Hard news stories
40. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Human interest story
Kicker
Anecdotal lead
Banner
41. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Human interest story
HFR
Follow
Pulitzer Prize
42. 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.
Human interest story
Trend story
Attribution
Clips
43. The name of the reporter
Kicker
By-line
Rules
Libel
44. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Paraphrase
Cover
Graf
Inverted pyramid
45. Publicity story or a story that contains unwarranted superlatives.
Press
Pulitzer Prize
Profile
Puff piece or puffery
46. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Brightener
Follow
Lay out(v.)
Civil law
47. Information that is not intended for publication
Puff piece or puffery
Sources
Background
Add
48. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Participant observation
Verification
Op-ed page
Jump
49. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Spin
Editor
Slander
Immediate-identification lead
50. 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
Participant observation
Morgue
Voice
Byline
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