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Journalism Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the competition.
Off the record
Wire services
Kicker
Exclusive
2. Using the work of another person (both written words and intellectual property) and calling that work your own
Caption
Closed-ended question
Beat
Plagiarism
3. Newsroom library
Morgue
Beat
Exclusive
Credibility
4. 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
Graf
Libel
Immediate-identification lead
5. 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
Exclusive
Morgue
Angle
Package
6. Believability of a writer or publication
Inverted pyramid
Take
Credibility
Futures files
7. The process of preparing page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are to be placed in the newspaper.
Lay out(v.)
Sidebar
Closed-ended question
Jump line
8. 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
Wire services
Voice
Soft news
Trend story
9. A worldwide news-gathering cooperative owned by its subscribers.
Copy
Date line
Lay out(v.)
AP The Associated Press
10. The machine that prints a newspaper. Also a synonym for a journalist or journalism.
Crop
Layout (n.)
HFR
Press
11. A collection filed according to date of newspaper clippings letters notes and other information to remind editors of stories to assign.
Hard news stories
Kicker
Futures files
Story
12. The first sentence or first few sentences of a story
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13. 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
Deck
Hard news stories
Editorialize
14. 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.
Package
Actual malice
Investigative journalism
Human interest story
15. Narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine newspaper or book where two pages meet
Gutter
Screens
Graf
Editor
16. Hidden slant of a press source which usually casts the client in a positive light
roundup
Cutline
Spin
Profile
17. An ending that finishes a story with a climax surprise or punch line
General manager
Kicker
Column
Cub
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.)
Cub
Editorial
B-roll
Stringer
19. A line identifying the author of a story.
Date line
Attribution
Shirttail
Byline
20. A smaller headline which comes between the headline and the story
Futures files
Banner
Attribution
Deck
21. The person who 'edits' a story by revising and polishing
Editorialize
Lay out(v.)
Hard news stories
Editor
22. Stories clipped from your own or other newspapers.
Lay out(v.)
Hard news stories
Clips
Civil law
23. Any overly obscure technical or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language
Byline
Multiple-element lead
HFR
Jargon
24. A beginning reporter.
Crop
Cub
Brightener
Copy
25. Similar to libel but spoken instead of published
Morgue
Slander
Futures files
Jump
26. To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a specfic event.
Editorialize
Cover
Masthead
Feature article
27. Short related story added to the end of a longer one
Sidebar
Shirttail
Cub
Press
28. A feature story that focuses on the current fads directions tendencies and inclinations of society
Paraphrase
Trend story
Puff piece or puffery
Byline
29. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.
Anecdotal lead
Lead story
Verification
Multiple-element lead
30. Copy which accompanies a photograph or graphiccopy which accompanies a photograph or graphic
Caption
Lead or 'lede'
Screens
Civil law
31. 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
Package
Story
Sidebar
Profile
32. A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person.
Hard news stories
Profile
Human interest story
Beat
33. 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)
Gutter
Wire services
Deck
Story
34. A page of typewritten copy for newspaper use.
Cutline
Take
Plagiarism
Futures files
35. The opening paragraph of a story in which the 'who' is reported by name.
Copy
Jargon
Gutter
Immediate-identification lead
36. A direct question designed to draw a specific response; for example 'Will you be a candidate?'
Libel
Press
Closed-ended question
Sidebar
37. 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.
Immediate-identification lead
Puff piece or puffery
Column
Paraphrase
38. A secondary story intended to be run with a major story on the same topic.
Copy
Sidebar
Voice
Closed-ended question
39. Shaded areas of copy in a newspaper
Rules
Cutline
Brightener
Screens
40. 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
Soft news
Story
Investigative journalism
Cutline
41. A fragment of information that may lead to a story.
Add
Tip
roundup
Trend story
42. A person who talks to a reporter on the record for attribution in a news story
Story
Source
Sidebar
Lay out(v.)
43. The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph.
Soft news
Lay out(v.)
Cutline
Clips
44. The department responsible for distribution of the newspaper.
Circulation department
Off the record
Graf
Crony journalism
45. An article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on an issue
Editorial
Column
Source
Angle
46. A reporter's assigned area of responsibility. It may be an institution a geographical area or a subject such as science.
Crop
Cover
Beat
B-roll
47. A story usually short that is humorous or pleasing to the reader.
Deck
Attribution
Spin
Brightener
48. The major story on top of page one.
Morgue
Lead story
Sidebar
Stringer
49. A story supplying further information about an item that has already been published.
Follow
Gutter
Plagiarism
Morgue
50. 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
Civil law
Jump line
Rules
Wire services