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Journalism Vocab
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Believability of a writer or publication
Gutter
Credibility
Kicker
roundup
2. A line identifying the author of a story.
Take
Source
Trend story
Byline
3. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Participant observation
Cover
Byline
Cutline
4. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Gutter
Civil law
By-line
Banner
5. A story including a number of related events.
roundup
General manager
Closed-ended question
Caption
6. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Futures files
Cutline
Take
Jargon
7. Information that is not intended for publication
Background
Graf
Take
Cutline
8. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Voice
Futures files
Slander
Delayed-identification lead
9. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Angle
Story
Jump line
Column
10. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Date line
Plagiarism
Lay out(v.)
Crop
11. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Background
Shirttail
Banner
12. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Crony journalism
Lead story
Anecdotal lead
Jump
13. The major story on top of page one.
Op-ed page
Lead story
Sidebar
AP The Associated Press
14. The name of the reporter
Morgue
Actual malice
By-line
Futures files
15. A beginning reporter.
Closed-ended question
Voice
Pulitzer Prize
Cub
16. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Clips
Background
Follow
Jargon
17. 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
Follow
Exclusive
Attribution
Package
18. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Plagiarism
Anecdotal lead
Background
Participant observation
19. A position that is partial or slanted
Tip
Stringer
Press
Bias
20. 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)
Wire services
Background
Investigative journalism
Add
21. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Immediate-identification lead
Verification
AP The Associated Press
Tip
22. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Take
Libel
Shirttail
Rules
23. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Soft news
HFR
Editor
Crop
24. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Slander
Attribution
Crop
Futures files
25. The completed page drawing.
Trend story
Follow
Caption
Layout (n.)
26. Usually means 'don't quote me.'
Libel
Take
Shirttail
Off the record
27. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Civil law
Op-ed page
Editorial
Story
28. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Delayed-identification lead
Immediate-identification lead
Attribution
Anecdotal lead
29. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Morgue
Human interest story
Beat
Profile
30. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Plagiarism
Credibility
Actual malice
Stringer
31. 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
Puff piece or puffery
Source
Sidebar
Multiple-element lead
32. Abbreviation for paragraph
B-roll
Graf
Closed-ended question
Jump line
33. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Delayed-identification lead
Spin
Editorialize
Op-ed page
34. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Layout (n.)
Sidebar
Crop
Exclusive
35. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Banner
Story
Anecdotal lead
Verification
36. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Follow
Investigative journalism
Pulitzer Prize
Human interest story
37. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Cub
Layout (n.)
Soft news
Participant observation
38. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Deck
Source
Credibility
Tip
39. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Credibility
Story
Circulation department
Lead or 'lede'
40. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Rules
Deck
Shield laws
Sidebar
41. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Profile
Take
Lead story
Closed-ended question
42. 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
Wire services
Attribution
Slander
43. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Shirttail
Sidebar
Column
Hard news stories
44. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Lay out(v.)
Clips
Background
Editorialize
45. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Layout (n.)
General manager
Investigative journalism
Copy
46. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Tip
Paraphrase
Trend story
Screens
47. 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.
Package
Editorialize
Paraphrase
Stringer
48. The place the story was filed
HFR
Immediate-identification lead
Date line
B-roll
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
Column
roundup
Investigative journalism
AP The Associated Press
50. 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
HFR
Date line
Package
Jump line