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Journalism Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Credibility
Add
Shirttail
Trend story
2. A feature story that focuses on the current fads directions tendencies and inclinations of society
Trend story
Source
Background
Profile
3. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Lead story
Circulation department
Anecdotal lead
Crop
4. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Exclusive
Kicker
Spin
5. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
By-line
Caption
Editorial
Feature article
6. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Rules
Follow
Circulation department
Caption
7. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Take
Civil law
Jargon
Sources
8. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Copy
Closed-ended question
Lay out(v.)
Brightener
9. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Shield laws
Morgue
Crop
Beat
10. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Bias
Anecdotal lead
Copy
Add
11. A story including a number of related events.
Package
Puff piece or puffery
roundup
Cutline
12. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Actual malice
Take
Stringer
Follow
13. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Date line
Editorial
Cutline
Jump
14. 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
Editorialize
Libel
Graf
15. A position that is partial or slanted
Soft news
Bias
Screens
Spin
16. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Rules
Op-ed page
Gutter
Voice
17. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Investigative journalism
Editor
Column
Deck
18. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Jump line
Angle
roundup
Lay out(v.)
19. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Off the record
Closed-ended question
Graf
Jump line
20. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Exclusive
Trend story
Column
Caption
21. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Kicker
Editorialize
Participant observation
Follow
22. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Editorialize
Shirttail
Spin
Deck
23. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Story
AP The Associated Press
Voice
Package
24. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
Add
HFR
roundup
Jump
25. Publicity story or a story that contains unwarranted superlatives.
General manager
Caption
Futures files
Puff piece or puffery
26. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Package
Editor
Verification
Delayed-identification lead
27. 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
Libel
Voice
Lead story
Anecdotal lead
28. The opening paragraph of a story that reports two or more newsworthy elements.
Press
AP The Associated Press
Multiple-element lead
Crony journalism
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
Multiple-element lead
Inverted pyramid
Soft news
30. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Masthead
Shirttail
Closed-ended question
Editorialize
31. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Screens
Libel
Rules
Anecdotal lead
32. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Source
Editorialize
Futures files
Bias
33. The name of the reporter
Lead story
Delayed-identification lead
AP The Associated Press
By-line
34. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Deck
Investigative journalism
Voice
Kicker
35. 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)
Verification
Wire services
Feature article
Human interest story
36. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Layout (n.)
B-roll
Take
Beat
37. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Gutter
Voice
Plagiarism
Package
38. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Column
Investigative journalism
Lead or 'lede'
Sources
39. 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
Lead or 'lede'
Crony journalism
Editorial
40. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Libel
Credibility
Source
Column
41. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Op-ed page
Cub
Verification
Immediate-identification lead
42. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Editorialize
Futures files
Press
Civil law
43. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Jump line
Caption
Screens
Verification
44. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
B-roll
Closed-ended question
Feature article
Editor
45. Usually means 'don't quote me.'
Sources
Off the record
Pulitzer Prize
Shield laws
46. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Cover
Immediate-identification lead
Press
Graf
47. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Trend story
Cutline
Op-ed page
Participant observation
48. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Add
Angle
Exclusive
Package
49. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Inverted pyramid
Cub
Rules
Package
50. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Hard news stories
Credibility
Actual malice
Participant observation