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Journalism Vocab
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1. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Crop
Slander
Jump line
Sources
2. A position that is partial or slanted
By-line
Participant observation
Trend story
Bias
3. 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
Jump
Paraphrase
Source
4. The place the story was filed
Date line
Anecdotal lead
Story
Layout (n.)
5. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Voice
Editorialize
Immediate-identification lead
Exclusive
6. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Paraphrase
Participant observation
Hard news stories
Crop
7. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Add
Sidebar
Follow
Credibility
8. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Screens
Package
Human interest story
Closed-ended question
9. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Delayed-identification lead
Layout (n.)
Profile
Plagiarism
10. The opening paragraph of a story that reports two or more newsworthy elements.
Participant observation
Clips
Tip
Multiple-element lead
11. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Cutline
Sidebar
AP The Associated Press
Byline
12. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Inverted pyramid
Puff piece or puffery
Voice
Cover
13. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Voice
General manager
Editorialize
Screens
14. A line identifying the author of a story.
Byline
Tip
Participant observation
Source
15. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Gutter
Shield laws
Layout (n.)
Trend story
16. The completed page drawing.
Byline
Credibility
Kicker
Layout (n.)
17. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Spin
Wire services
Deck
Jump
18. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Actual malice
Cover
Attribution
Sources
19. 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.)
Rules
Editorial
Cub
B-roll
20. A beginning reporter.
Trend story
Delayed-identification lead
Masthead
Cub
21. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Sidebar
Cub
Caption
Futures files
22. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Crop
Civil law
Jargon
Screens
23. 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.
Paraphrase
Screens
Copy
Clips
24. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Closed-ended question
Banner
Shield laws
Crop
25. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Sources
Civil law
Bias
Masthead
26. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Angle
Pulitzer Prize
Background
Closed-ended question
27. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Actual malice
Screens
General manager
Sidebar
28. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Multiple-element lead
Byline
Brightener
Crop
29. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Sidebar
Caption
Banner
Story
30. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Shirttail
Lay out(v.)
Attribution
Editorialize
31. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Off the record
Banner
Credibility
Anecdotal lead
32. A column of copy and/or graphics which appears on the page of a magazine or newspaper to communicate information about the story or contents of the paper
Immediate-identification lead
Gutter
Screens
Sidebar
33. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Layout (n.)
Beat
Caption
Press
34. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Plagiarism
Kicker
Off the record
Sources
35. A story including a number of related events.
roundup
Multiple-element lead
Actual malice
Lead or 'lede'
36. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Beat
Take
Inverted pyramid
Kicker
37. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Press
Jump line
Column
Banner
38. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Editor
Brightener
Civil law
Slander
39. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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40. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
HFR
Immediate-identification lead
Profile
Stringer
41. The name of the reporter
Copy
Morgue
Jump line
By-line
42. 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
Investigative journalism
Futures files
Lead or 'lede'
Press
43. 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)
Lay out(v.)
Gutter
Wire services
Crony journalism
44. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Cub
Crony journalism
General manager
Masthead
45. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Plagiarism
Bias
Anecdotal lead
Source
46. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Copy
Wire services
By-line
Participant observation
47. Abbreviation for paragraph
Sidebar
Graf
Profile
Crony journalism
48. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Verification
Press
Circulation department
Pulitzer Prize
49. Information that is not intended for publication
Trend story
Deck
Background
Graf
50. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Column
Plagiarism
Gutter
AP The Associated Press