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Journalism Vocab
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1. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Closed-ended question
Slander
Brightener
Background
2. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Clips
Actual malice
Wire services
Banner
3. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Editor
Editorialize
Background
Masthead
4. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Participant observation
Crony journalism
Voice
Delayed-identification lead
5. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Jargon
Morgue
Feature article
Shield laws
6. 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
Civil law
Soft news
Sidebar
Angle
7. 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.
General manager
Credibility
Paraphrase
Column
8. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Plagiarism
Editorial
Exclusive
AP The Associated Press
9. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Clips
Plagiarism
Off the record
Tip
10. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Editor
Pulitzer Prize
Source
Jump
11. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Credibility
Shield laws
Story
Kicker
12. Opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is identified by occupation city office or any means other than by name.
Kicker
Delayed-identification lead
Hard news stories
Column
13. A story including a number of related events.
Crop
Add
roundup
Editor
14. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Plagiarism
Cub
Actual malice
15. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Caption
Sources
Exclusive
Shirttail
16. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Off the record
Add
Jump
Actual malice
17. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Package
Jargon
Graf
AP The Associated Press
18. 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.
Rules
Masthead
Take
Libel
19. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Brightener
Multiple-element lead
Cover
Banner
20. 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.)
Cover
Jargon
B-roll
Date line
21. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Editorialize
Inverted pyramid
Attribution
Shield laws
22. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Cover
Sidebar
Lead or 'lede'
AP The Associated Press
23. A beginning reporter.
Soft news
Pulitzer Prize
Cub
Libel
24. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Take
Spin
Caption
Editorial
25. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Credibility
By-line
Futures files
Multiple-element lead
26. Believability of a writer or publication
Credibility
Deck
Hard news stories
Op-ed page
27. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Bias
Cutline
Slander
HFR
28. 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
Stringer
Human interest story
Crony journalism
29. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
roundup
Anecdotal lead
Editor
Verification
30. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Kicker
Civil law
HFR
Sidebar
31. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Jargon
Bias
Editor
Column
32. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Trend story
Circulation department
Anecdotal lead
Profile
33. A position that is partial or slanted
Bias
Soft news
Brightener
Angle
34. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Credibility
Editorial
General manager
Rules
35. The major story on top of page one.
Lead story
By-line
Sidebar
Take
36. Information that is not intended for publication
Soft news
Background
Verification
Crony journalism
37. 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
Stringer
Voice
Inverted pyramid
Editorial
38. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Human interest story
General manager
Background
Take
39. 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
Pulitzer Prize
Soft news
Delayed-identification lead
Kicker
40. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Stringer
Spin
Press
Deck
41. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Jump
Soft news
General manager
Sidebar
42. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Immediate-identification lead
Plagiarism
Lead or 'lede'
Caption
43. 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
Jump line
Follow
Soft news
Sources
44. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Morgue
Stringer
Sidebar
General manager
45. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Banner
Slander
AP The Associated Press
Crony journalism
46. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Plagiarism
Deck
Hard news stories
Tip
47. Newsroom library
Clips
General manager
Morgue
Banner
48. 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.
HFR
Clips
Screens
Human interest story
49. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Screens
Jump
Cover
Sidebar
50. Abbreviation for paragraph
Package
Sources
Jump line
Graf