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Journalism Vocab
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1. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Crop
Cutline
Human interest story
Profile
2. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Sources
Package
Tip
Clips
3. Abbreviation for 'hold for release.' Material that cannot be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.
Lead or 'lede'
HFR
Graf
Jump line
4. 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
Deck
Closed-ended question
Investigative journalism
Masthead
5. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Masthead
Byline
Attribution
Layout (n.)
6. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Take
AP The Associated Press
Actual malice
Puff piece or puffery
7. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
B-roll
Libel
Slander
Add
8. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Cutline
Credibility
Jargon
Brightener
9. 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)
Beat
Wire services
Actual malice
Caption
10. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Tip
Package
Shirttail
Layout (n.)
11. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Package
Editorial
Byline
Plagiarism
12. 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.
Soft news
Paraphrase
Voice
Exclusive
13. Believability of a writer or publication
HFR
Trend story
Graf
Credibility
14. Usually means 'don't quote me.'
Off the record
Story
Shield laws
Lay out(v.)
15. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Screens
Editorialize
Off the record
Rules
16. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Banner
B-roll
Source
Credibility
17. The place the story was filed
Date line
Graf
Hard news stories
Follow
18. A typewritten page of copy following the first page.
Column
Add
Crony journalism
Take
19. 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
General manager
Attribution
Pulitzer Prize
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.
Soft news
B-roll
Actual malice
Civil law
21. A story including a number of related events.
Story
Angle
roundup
Futures files
22. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Lay out(v.)
Beat
Anecdotal lead
Investigative journalism
23. The term most journalists use for a newspaper article.
General manager
Story
Tip
Crony journalism
24. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Press
Morgue
Graf
Bias
25. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Shirttail
Puff piece or puffery
Stringer
Investigative journalism
26. Opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is identified by occupation city office or any means other than by name.
Source
Brightener
Column
Delayed-identification lead
27. Continuation of a story from one page to another
Editor
Morgue
Jump
Credibility
28. A newspaper story beginning that uses humor or an interesting incident.
Attribution
Multiple-element lead
Shield laws
Anecdotal lead
29. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Layout (n.)
Stringer
Gutter
Lead story
30. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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31. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Exclusive
Credibility
Add
Soft news
32. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Exclusive
Caption
Delayed-identification lead
Attribution
33. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Immediate-identification lead
Attribution
Delayed-identification lead
Closed-ended question
34. 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
Exclusive
Follow
Off the record
35. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
AP The Associated Press
Inverted pyramid
Sources
Futures files
36. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Cutline
Participant observation
Spin
roundup
37. Most prestigious prize for journalists or photographers
Trend story
Pulitzer Prize
Take
Participant observation
38. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Editor
Cover
Deck
Futures files
39. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Rules
Lead or 'lede'
Screens
Trend story
40. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
By-line
Anecdotal lead
Inverted pyramid
Jargon
41. Abbreviation for paragraph
Graf
Puff piece or puffery
HFR
Kicker
42. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Screens
Futures files
Take
Puff piece or puffery
43. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Voice
Investigative journalism
Kicker
Banner
44. The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance.
Lay out(v.)
Kicker
Inverted pyramid
Wire services
45. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Lay out(v.)
Verification
Off the record
AP The Associated Press
46. Statutes under which an individual or a group can take action against another group or individual.
Slander
Date line
Civil law
Verification
47. To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story or headline.
Trend story
Stringer
Editorialize
Participant observation
48. The name of the reporter
Feature article
By-line
Voice
Delayed-identification lead
49. The individual responsible for the business operations of a newspaper.
Cutline
Story
Morgue
General manager
50. Newsroom library
Morgue
Participant observation
Angle
Package