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Sacred cow - News or promotional material which a publisher or editor demands be published, often for personal reasons.

Serif and Sans serif - Plain font type with or without (sans) lines perpendicular to the ends of characters.

Satellite television - TV recieved through a satellite dish.

Scoop - An exclusive or first-published story.

Scoopt - the world’s first citizen journalism photograph agency owned by Getty Images.

Search box - A tool that allows users to enter a word or phrase to search a database.

Server - A computer that hosts the pages of a web site.

Shockwave - Software that allows the user to play multimedia animations; published by Macromedia.

Skype - Popular free internet telephony tool sometimes used to produce Skypecasts, or broadcast conference calls.

Skyscraper - A vertical banner advert, usually at one side of a web page and 60 x 468 pixels in size.

Social bookmarking - A service that allows users to store interesting website addresses publically on a web page and lets users network and pool recommendations.

Source - An individual who provides information for a story.

Splash - Front page story.

Standfirst - Line of text after the headline that gives more information about the article.

Stet - Proofreader’s mark for ‘restore to condition before mark up’.

Sticky content - Content that encourages users to stay on one site for as long as possible.

Strapline - Similar to a subhead or standfirst, but used more as a marketing term.

Streaming - Watching or listening to video or audio in real time, rather than downloading files.

Sub-editor - The person that checksand edits a reporters’ work and adds headlines and standfirsts.

Subhead - A smaller one-line headline for a story.

Superstitials - A type of rich media advert that downloads gradually without obscuring other content on the page; usually more popular than pop ups.

T

Tabloid - Smaller print newspaper size.

Technobabble - Confusing technical jargon.

Technorati - Powerful blog search engine.

Teeline - A form of shorthand.

Terrestrial television - TV sent through a beam transmitter directly into the home.

Testimonial - Endorsement of a product, often by a celebrity or well-respected client.

TK - Proofreader’s insertion mark for data to come. Sometimes written as TKTK.

Tie in - Placing the facts of a new story within the context of past events. Also known as a tie back.

Tip - A lead of piece of new information about a new story.

Top heads - Headlines at the top of a column.

Traffic - Amount of users recorded by a website.

Twitter - A service that allows users to send 140 character messages to ‘friends’ via mobile SMS, website or Instant Messenger.

U

Unique users - The number of individual users, as identified by unique computer addresses, that visit a web site.

Upload - To publish a file on the internet.

URL - Uniform Resource Locator, technical name for a web address.

User - A visitor or reader on a web site.

User-generated content - Material created and submitted to sites by its users - such as photographs, video footage, comments, articles etc.

V

Verso - Left-hand page.

Video blogger/Vlogger - A blogger who mainly uses video and publishes on the internet.

Video journalist - A journalist who publishes video reports on TV and/or on the internet.

W

Warblogs - Opinionated and political web logs.

Webcasting - Online visual and/or audio broadcasts, usually in real time.

Webmercials - Similar format to television adverts used online.

Webinar/Web conference - A seminar, lecture or presentation delivered over the internet.

Widow - Last line of paragraph appearing on the first line of a column of text.

Wi-fi - Wireless internet or network connection.

Wiki - An information site that can be edited and added to by readers. See Wikipedia - an online Wiki encyclopedia.

Wires - Stories or photographs sent electrically to your desktop. Here is a list of wire news services.

Wob - White text on a black or other coloured background.
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