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Journalism Vocab
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journalism-and-media
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1. A position that is partial or slanted
Clips
Slander
roundup
Bias
2. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Screens
Bias
Editorial
Jump
3. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Plagiarism
Morgue
Column
Masthead
4. A beginning reporter.
Closed-ended question
Morgue
Cub
Delayed-identification lead
5. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Wire services
Sidebar
Participant observation
AP The Associated Press
6. Particular emphasis of a media presentation sometimes called a slant
Angle
Crop
Sidebar
Brightener
7. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Byline
Inverted pyramid
Tip
Lead story
8. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Actual malice
Crop
Editorial
Copy
9. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Anecdotal lead
Source
Circulation department
Morgue
10. A story including a number of related events.
Delayed-identification lead
roundup
By-line
Clips
11. Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line ribbon streamer screamer
Credibility
Banner
Story
Layout (n.)
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
Source
Jump line
Shield laws
Masthead
13. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Add
Gutter
Futures files
General manager
14. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Immediate-identification lead
Lay out(v.)
Cutline
Exclusive
15. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Off the record
Libel
Deck
Immediate-identification lead
16. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Immediate-identification lead
Investigative journalism
Cover
Layout (n.)
17. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Bias
Op-ed page
Shirttail
Add
18. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Background
Byline
Clips
Editor
19. A research technique in which the reporter joins in the activity he or she wants to write about.
Jargon
Beat
Participant observation
Libel
20. A line identifying the author of a story.
Sources
Byline
Actual malice
Cutline
21. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Voice
Editor
Hard news stories
AP The Associated Press
22. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
Caption
roundup
Kicker
General manager
23. The place the story was filed
Attribution
Date line
Byline
Participant observation
24. 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
Column
Pulitzer Prize
Human interest story
Investigative journalism
25. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Slander
AP The Associated Press
Closed-ended question
Human interest story
26. Newsroom library
Morgue
Actual malice
Editor
Banner
27. 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
Human interest story
Wire services
Stringer
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.
Kicker
Actual malice
By-line
AP The Associated Press
29. The name of the reporter
Investigative journalism
Take
By-line
Wire services
30. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
Date line
Feature article
Exclusive
Spin
31. Opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is identified by occupation city office or any means other than by name.
Delayed-identification lead
roundup
Deck
Cover
32. Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources.
Shield laws
Banner
Closed-ended question
Op-ed page
33. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Follow
Screens
Brightener
Closed-ended question
34. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Civil law
Closed-ended question
Attribution
Deck
35. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Exclusive
Libel
Sidebar
Trend story
36. Lines used to separate one story from another on a newspaper page
Puff piece or puffery
Rules
Plagiarism
Sources
37. The major story on top of page one.
Lead story
Wire services
Delayed-identification lead
Bias
38. People or records from which a reporter gets information.
Sources
HFR
Lead or 'lede'
Human interest story
39. 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.)
Lay out(v.)
B-roll
Participant observation
Exclusive
40. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Voice
Sidebar
Anecdotal lead
Angle
41. 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
Cub
Layout (n.)
Package
Crop
42. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Masthead
Profile
Banner
Lead or 'lede'
43. Credit given to who said what or the source of facts
Column
Gutter
Masthead
Attribution
44. An article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Attribution
Shirttail
Layout (n.)
Column
45. Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news about friends of a reporter.
Paraphrase
Closed-ended question
Soft news
Crony journalism
46. Correspondent not a regular staff member who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
Trend story
Stringer
Credibility
Paraphrase
47. The 'banner' across the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date of publication
Delayed-identification lead
General manager
Masthead
Human interest story
48. The completed page drawing.
Circulation department
Exclusive
Layout (n.)
Attribution
49. Abbreviation for paragraph
Byline
Bias
Slander
Graf
50. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Shirttail
Banner
Futures files
Source