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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. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Deck
Actual malice
General manager
Multiple-element lead
2. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Brightener
Cub
Banner
Futures files
3. 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
Package
Background
Exclusive
Soft news
4. To cut or mask the unwanted portions usually of a photograph.
Crop
Kicker
Gutter
Credibility
5. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Jump line
Credibility
Participant observation
Package
6. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Morgue
roundup
Sidebar
Shirttail
7. Believability of a writer or publication
Credibility
Column
Beat
By-line
8. 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
Cover
Shirttail
Credibility
Sidebar
9. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Feature article
Follow
Actual malice
Editor
10. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Editorial
Lead or 'lede'
AP The Associated Press
Layout (n.)
11. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Sidebar
Caption
Hard news stories
Package
12. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Lay out(v.)
Investigative journalism
Graf
Sidebar
13. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
B-roll
Crony journalism
Masthead
Shirttail
14. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Screens
Jargon
Sources
Slander
15. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
Story
Jump line
Column
Exclusive
16. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Crony journalism
Trend story
Exclusive
Shirttail
17. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Take
Wire services
Cutline
Civil law
18. 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.)
Hard news stories
Wire services
B-roll
Paraphrase
19. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Circulation department
Beat
Source
Crony journalism
20. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Paraphrase
Inverted pyramid
Tip
Clips
21. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Puff piece or puffery
Gutter
Tip
Angle
22. 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.
Brightener
Sources
Take
Paraphrase
23. The main article on the front page of a newspaper or the cover story in a magazine
Trend story
Feature article
Package
Background
24. Factual accounts of important events usually appearing first in a newspaper
Morgue
Hard news stories
Cub
Civil law
25. The major story on top of page one.
Add
Stringer
Angle
Lead story
26. Any written material intended for publication including advertising - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy.
Tip
Hard news stories
Copy
Soft news
27. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Civil law
Plagiarism
Jargon
Beat
28. 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.
Column
Actual malice
Puff piece or puffery
Circulation department
29. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Tip
Banner
Bias
AP The Associated Press
30. 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.
Feature article
Bias
Libel
Slander
31. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Shirttail
Stringer
Take
By-line
32. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Credibility
Crony journalism
Angle
Shirttail
33. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
HFR
Inverted pyramid
Libel
Sidebar
34. Opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is identified by occupation city office or any means other than by name.
Deck
Delayed-identification lead
Bias
Participant observation
35. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Participant observation
Profile
Futures files
Press
36. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Verification
Circulation department
Rules
Participant observation
37. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Source
Soft news
Profile
Crop
38. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Hard news stories
Pulitzer Prize
Bias
Follow
39. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Closed-ended question
Futures files
Shirttail
Credibility
40. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Caption
Inverted pyramid
Attribution
Morgue
41. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Background
Jump
Deck
Puff piece or puffery
42. Information that is not intended for publication
B-roll
Layout (n.)
Background
Add
43. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Rules
Press
Credibility
Deck
44. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Date line
Rules
Plagiarism
Sidebar
45. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Jump
Puff piece or puffery
Plagiarism
Verification
46. The completed page drawing.
Anecdotal lead
Investigative journalism
Layout (n.)
Story
47. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Profile
Stringer
Copy
Sources
48. Abbreviation for paragraph
Graf
Wire services
roundup
Civil law
49. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Bias
Copy
Stringer
50. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
Bias
Hard news stories
HFR
Immediate-identification lead