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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. Information that is not intended for publication
Lead or 'lede'
Background
Kicker
Credibility
2. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Actual malice
Kicker
Column
Feature article
3. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
HFR
Immediate-identification lead
Press
Stringer
4. The place the story was filed
Slander
Anecdotal lead
Date line
Take
5. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Slander
Exclusive
Pulitzer Prize
Shield laws
6. A position that is partial or slanted
Delayed-identification lead
Paraphrase
Story
Bias
7. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Shield laws
Sources
Anecdotal lead
Participant observation
8. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Brightener
Follow
Hard news stories
Spin
9. A beginning reporter.
Op-ed page
Jump
Layout (n.)
Cub
10. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Deck
Press
Copy
Cutline
11. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Column
Rules
Participant observation
Inverted pyramid
12. 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
Bias
Jump line
Morgue
Story
13. Abbreviation for paragraph
Graf
Trend story
Jump
Hard news stories
14. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Feature article
Editorial
Attribution
Source
15. 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.
Libel
Inverted pyramid
Editorialize
Screens
16. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Screens
Crop
Editorialize
Masthead
17. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Sidebar
Brightener
Futures files
Date line
18. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Caption
Crony journalism
Cutline
Press
19. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Rules
Shield laws
Profile
Cutline
20. In libel law a reckless disregard for the truth such as when a reporter or an editor knows that a statement is false and prints or airs it anyway.
Actual malice
Trend story
B-roll
Crop
21. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Pulitzer Prize
Profile
Follow
Crop
22. Usually means 'don't quote me.'
Masthead
Verification
Off the record
Attribution
23. The major story on top of page one.
Investigative journalism
Immediate-identification lead
Caption
Lead story
24. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Wire services
Story
Futures files
Package
25. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Take
Anecdotal lead
Caption
Slander
26. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Kicker
Morgue
Cub
Profile
27. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Immediate-identification lead
Sources
Closed-ended question
Take
28. A story including a number of related events.
Participant observation
Sidebar
AP The Associated Press
roundup
29. 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
Puff piece or puffery
Gutter
Banner
30. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Feature article
Paraphrase
Copy
Cutline
31. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Verification
Angle
Credibility
Attribution
32. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
Bias
Banner
Feature article
Closed-ended question
33. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Exclusive
Editor
Off the record
Trend story
34. 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
Deck
Off the record
Column
Package
35. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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36. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Brightener
Gutter
Profile
Sidebar
37. 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
Angle
Copy
Shirttail
38. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Angle
Date line
Clips
Libel
39. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
Jump line
Take
HFR
Kicker
40. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Copy
General manager
Story
Lead story
41. The name of the reporter
By-line
Slander
Story
Cover
42. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Paraphrase
Graf
Beat
Screens
43. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Trend story
Press
Banner
Civil law
44. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Verification
Jargon
Crop
Kicker
45. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Lay out(v.)
Deck
Kicker
Multiple-element lead
46. 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
Pulitzer Prize
Take
Clips
47. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Lay out(v.)
By-line
Editor
Investigative journalism
48. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Add
Op-ed page
Graf
Inverted pyramid
49. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Inverted pyramid
Shield laws
Closed-ended question
Editorial
50. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Byline
Gutter
Credibility
Soft news