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Journalism Vocab
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1. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Cutline
Cover
Slander
Crop
2. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Clips
Story
roundup
Rules
3. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Editorial
Verification
Clips
Tip
4. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Masthead
Soft news
Immediate-identification lead
Sidebar
5. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Lay out(v.)
Shield laws
Trend story
Feature article
6. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Futures files
AP The Associated Press
Cutline
Story
7. Usually means 'don't quote me.'
Date line
Voice
Actual malice
Off the record
8. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Shield laws
Anecdotal lead
B-roll
Story
9. A beginning reporter.
Cub
B-roll
Pulitzer Prize
Graf
10. 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
Sidebar
Inverted pyramid
Add
AP The Associated Press
11. Newsroom library
Crony journalism
Verification
Morgue
Clips
12. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Editorialize
Anecdotal lead
Take
Immediate-identification lead
13. 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.
By-line
Libel
Futures files
General manager
14. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Crony journalism
Bias
HFR
Banner
15. Believability of a writer or publication
Press
Cub
Credibility
Banner
16. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Closed-ended question
Cover
Morgue
Exclusive
17. 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
Editor
Profile
Follow
Jump line
18. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Editorial
Plagiarism
Beat
Hard news stories
19. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Verification
Off the record
Editorialize
Screens
20. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
HFR
Inverted pyramid
Angle
Sources
21. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Inverted pyramid
Source
Story
Graf
22. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Sources
Add
Kicker
Gutter
23. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Voice
HFR
Delayed-identification lead
Story
24. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Masthead
Exclusive
Kicker
Pulitzer Prize
25. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
Feature article
Press
Masthead
Profile
26. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Cover
Slander
Follow
Closed-ended question
27. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Crony journalism
Clips
Jump
Take
28. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
General manager
Shield laws
Sources
Stringer
29. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Delayed-identification lead
Slander
By-line
Inverted pyramid
30. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Libel
Shield laws
Copy
Editorial
31. Information that is not intended for publication
Morgue
Background
Hard news stories
Civil law
32. 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
Credibility
Crony journalism
Profile
33. 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
Libel
Lead or 'lede'
Investigative journalism
Caption
34. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Jargon
Screens
Cutline
Source
35. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Story
Cover
Exclusive
Copy
36. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Wire services
Civil law
Libel
Source
37. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Press
Shirttail
Masthead
Voice
38. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Jump
Graf
HFR
Angle
39. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Feature article
roundup
Deck
Byline
40. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Masthead
Circulation department
Civil law
Clips
41. Publicity story or a story that contains unwarranted superlatives.
By-line
Puff piece or puffery
B-roll
Investigative journalism
42. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Sidebar
Op-ed page
Credibility
Civil law
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)
Wire services
Slander
Closed-ended question
Jump line
44. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
General manager
Clips
Sidebar
Add
45. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Lead or 'lede'
Jargon
Graf
Hard news stories
46. Abbreviation for paragraph
Human interest story
Voice
Graf
Jump
47. 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
Puff piece or puffery
Inverted pyramid
Soft news
Press
48. The major story on top of page one.
Anecdotal lead
Immediate-identification lead
Lead story
Soft news
49. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Graf
Attribution
Gutter
Screens
50. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Byline
Beat
Story
Plagiarism