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prieti Tuesday, July 03, 2007 01:27 PM

Glossary For Journalism
 
[I][SIZE="3"][B]Below is the Glossary for Journalism Terms.It will be helpful for MCQ's[/B].[/SIZE][/I]

[B][SIZE="4"]A[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Ad-[/B]abbreviation for advertisement

[B]Advance[/B] (advance story)-news of an event to occur in the future

[B]All caps[/B]-a word or word written in all capital letters

[B]AP[/B]-abbreviations for Associated Press, a news-gathering service

[B]Assignment[/B]- A particular job given to reporters by editors. Sometimes reporters suggest their own assignments, but they must get an editor's approval before beginning work.

[B]Advertisement[/B] -the promotion of a product or service

[B]Advertising manager[/B] -the person who oversees the sales representatives who sell space to advertisers, and ensures that ads are in the appropriate section

[B]Advertorial [/B]-an advertisement section in a magazine that looks like an article or a feature

[B]Advocacy [/B]-a style of journalism in which a reporter takes sides in controversial issues and develops a point of view or a style of journalism which is opposite of mainstream journalism, in which reporters are expected to be objective

[B]Angle[/B] -particular emphasis of a media presentation, sometimes called a slant

[B]Attribution[/B] -credit given to who said what or the source of facts
[B]ABC[/B] - Audit Bureau of Circulations; a group that audits newspaper circulation figures.

[B]Add[/B] - Copy to be added to a story already written.

[B]Adobe InDesign [/B]- Desktop publishing program, now being used more widely in place of QuarkXPress.

[B]Ad impression [/B]- Term used to describe the number of times an advert is seen. Advertisers usually sell space based on the exposure per thousand impressions. This is called Cost per impression (CPM). Alternatively, they might sell on a pay-per-click (CPC) basis (also known as cost-per-click - CPC)

[B]ADSL[/B] - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line; high bandwidth web connection often just called broadband.

Advertorial - An advert in the form of a complementary editorial piece, usually labelled as an advert.

[B]Analogue television [/B]- TV transmitted in radio waves as opposed to digital TV.

[B]Angle[/B] - The approach or focus of a story. This is sometimes known as the peg.

[B]Astroturfing[/B] - A term used to describe fake grassroots support on websites and in blog comments. A method most usually employed by the public relations and advertising industry and political groups.

[B]Attribute[/B] - to quote the original source of material, whether it be a quote of copyrighted work.

[B]Audit[/B] - An independent assessment of the validity of statistics used in adverts, newspapers etc.

[B]AOP[/B] - Formed in 2002, the Association of Online Publishers is an industry body for UK web publishers. The AOP represents the interests of 160 publishing companies.

[B]Average issue readership [/B]- Number of people who have read the newspaper or magazine in the period that it was issued, also known as AIR.


[B][SIZE="4"]B[/SIZE][/B]

[B]B2B[/B] - Business to business; describes a business whose primary customers are other businesses.

[B]B2C [/B]- Business to customer; describes a business whose primary customers are individuals.

[B]Background [/B]- Information given to a reporter to explain more about the situation and details of a story. Sometimes shortened to BG.

[B]Back bench [/B]- Senior journalists on a newspaper.

[B]Bandwidth[/B] - The amount of data that can be transferred through an internet connection.

[B]Banner ad[/B] - Web advert, normally found at the top of a page.
Typically around 468 by 60 pixels in size. Sometimes called a web banner.

[B]BARB[/B] - Broadcasting Audience Research Board, measures TV audience numbers.

[B]BBC[/B] - British Broadcasting Corporation.

[B]Beat[/B] - The area or subject that a reporter regularly covers.

[B]Best boy[/B] - Broadcasting term for second-in-command of a lighting team.

[B]Blawg[/B] - Weblog dealing with aspects of law.

[B]Bliki [/B]- Combination of a blog and a wiki; a blog that can be edited by readers or an approved group of users.

[B]Blind interview[/B] - An interview with an unnamed source.

[B]Blog[/B] - An online commentary or diary often written by individuals about hobbies or areas of specialist interest. Blogs commonly allow comments below entries and are published in reverse chronological order. Also known as a weblog.

[B]Blogger [/B]- A person who writes a blog.

[B]Blogosphere/Blogdom/Blogiverse/Blogmos/Blogostan[/B] - All things relating to blogs and blog communities.

[B]Blurb[/B] - Brief introduction to the writer, usually following the headline.

[B]Box[/B]-material enclosed, either completely or partially, by a printed rule

[B]BRAD[/B] - British Rate and Data; a company that logs every periodical that has to do with advertising in Britain.

[B]Break [/B]- When a story is first published. Sometimes called breaking news.

[B]Broadcast [/B]- communicating using radio and/or TV.

[B]Browser [/B]- A piece of software that allows users to view internet pages. Popular browsers include Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.

[B]Bulks[/B] - Copies distributed free, normally for promotion.

[B]Bump[/B] - To move the position or timing of a story.

[B]Button[/B] - A small web advertisement, usually around 165 by 90 pixels in size and commonly found in the right or left hand columns of a website.

[B]Byline[/B] - A journalist’s name at the beginning of a story.

prieti Tuesday, July 03, 2007 01:42 PM

[B][SIZE="4"]C[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Cable television [/B]- TV delivered into the home through an underground cable.

[B]Campaign [/B]- The various stages of an advertising project from beginning to end.

[B]Cap[/B] - Upper case.

[B]Caption[/B] - Text printed below a picture used to describe it and who took it. Sometimes called a cutline.

[B]Cascading stylesheets[/B] (CSS) - Technique used for designing web pages. One file that defines the style for a whole site.

[B]Chat rooms[/B] - An interactive part of a website where visitors can write messages to each other people in real time. Also known as forums and message boards.

[B]Churnalism [/B]- Bad journalism; journalists that churn out rewrites of press releases.

[B]Centre of visual interest (CVI)[/B] - The prominent item on a page usually a headline, picture or graphic.

[B]CIOJ[/B] - the Chartered Institute of Journalists.

[B]Circulation[/B] - Number of copies sold by newspapers or magazines. In the UK these figures are monitored by ABC - The Audit Bureau of Circulations.

[B]Citizen journalism [/B]- Term used to describe the reporting of news events by members of the public most commonly on blogs and social networking websites. Other terms include participatory journalism and networked journalism.

[B]Classified advertising [/B]- Advertising placed by individuals in newspapers. Sometimes called small ads.

[B]Clickthrough [/B]- When a reader clicks on an advert and is redirected to a new page. Advertisers sometimes buy adverts based on a rate per click called a Click-through rate or CTR.

[B]Closed question[/B] - A simple yes/no question that does little to encourage an interviewee to open up.

[B]Column[/B] - A regular feature often on a specific topic, written by the same person who is known as a columnist.

[B]Contempt of court[/B] - The criminal offence of ignoring court rules.

[B]Convergence [/B]- The term used to describe multimedia newsrooms producing news for different publishing platforms.

[B]Cookie[/B] - Small text file that is downloaded to your computer when you visit a site. The next time you visit, the site can use the file to remember details such as your login information.

[B]Copy[/B] - Main text of a story.

[B]Copy approval [/B]- A source or interviewer asking to see the text of an article prior to publication. (Always discouraged!)

[B]Copywriting[/B] - Creating the text for an advertisement.

[B]Coverline[/B] - Captions on a magazine cover.

[B]Cover story[/B] - Leading story used on front cover.

[B]CPM[/B] - cost per thousand impressions. This is the cost an advertiser pays for 1,000 page views. The M in CPM is the Roman numeral for 1,000.

[B]Crosshead [/B]- A few words used to break up large amounts of text, normally taken from the main text. Typically used in interviews.

[B]Cub[/B] - A trainee reporter. Also known as a rookie or junior reporter.

[B]Cut[/B] - To remove text.

[B]Cuttings[/B] - A journalist’s collection of published print work. Also known as clips and sometimes presented as a portfolio.

[B]Cuttings job[/B] - An article which has been put together using research culled from a number of other articles or news items.

[B]Cyber-journalist [/B]- A journalist that works on the internet. An online journalist.


[B][SIZE="4"]D[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Dateline [/B]- A line at the beginning of a story stating the date and the location.

[B]Deadline[/B] - The time at which an editor requests a journalists to finish an assignment.

[B]Death-knock[/B] - Calling at the house of a bereaved relative or friend when reporting on the death. Also known as door-stepping.

[B]Deck[/B] - Part of the headline which summarises the story. Also known as deck copy or bank.

[B]Defamation[/B] - Information that is written by one person which damages another person reputation.

[B]Digg[/B] - A community powered internet link recommendation system. Furl offers a similar service.

[B]Direct quote[/B] - The exact reproduction of a verbatim quote in quotemarks and correctly attributed.

[B]DHTML [/B]- Dynamic HTML. Allows exciting things to happen when you move your mouse over words.

[B]Digital television[/B] - TV transmitted in binary format, producing good picture quality.

[B]Direct marketing[/B] - Sending advertising material directly to potential customers either by post, fax, email or information by telephone.

[B]Dogblogging [/B]- When the upkeep of a weblog becomes a hassle.

[B]Dowdification [/B]- Deliberate omission of a term or terms to change the meaning of a quote. Refers to journalist Maureen Dowd.

[B]Download[/B] - Copying a file from a website to your own computer.

[B]Draft [/B]- The first version of an article before editing and submission to the editor.

[B]Dropdown menus[/B] - Name given to website menus that allow users to select from a list of options that drop down in a vertical menu.

[B]DPS[/B] - Double-page spread; can also be referred to as a spread.

prieti Tuesday, July 03, 2007 01:59 PM

[B][SIZE="4"]E[/SIZE][/B]

[B]e[/B] - Often used to indicate an electronic version of something, for example eNews, for an electronic newsletter, or eGovernment, to describe electronic government.

[B]Editor[/B] - Someone who prepares material for print or broadcast.

[B]Editorialise[/B] - To write in an opinionated way.

[B]Encryption [/B]- TV signals encoded so only paying subscribers can watch.

[B]Endnote [/B]- Text written at the end of an article stating the authors credentials.

[B]eTail[/B] - Online or ‘electronic’ retail.

[B]Exclusivity[/B] - When an advert appears exclusively on a page, rather than being in rotation with other ads.

[B]Ezine[/B] - Specialized online magazines.

[B][SIZE="4"]F[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Feature[/B] - A longer, more in-depth article.

[B]Fisk[/B] - Detailed word-by-word analysis and critique of an article. Refers to journalist Robert Fisk.

[B]Flash[/B] - A program used to display design-heavy, animated content.

[B]Flash[/B] - Short news story on a new event.

[B]Flatplan[/B] - A page plan that shows where the articles and adverts are laid out.

[B]Follow-up[/B] - An update on a previous story.

[B]Font[/B] - Typeface.

[B]Freelancer[/B] - Someone that works alone, usually on a contract-to-contract basis.

[B]Freesheet[/B] - A publication that is free to consumers and generates its revenue from advertising.

[B]Free-to-air [/B]- TV service received without having to decode or pay.

[B]Freeview[/B] - Commercial free-to-air digital service, between BBC, BSkyB and the transmission firm Crown Castle.

[B]Frontline Club [/B]- A club in London that promotes “freedom of expression and support journalists, cameramen and photographers who risk their lives in the course of their work.”

[B]FTP[/B] - File Transfer Protocol. A method of moving files, usually used to transfer files from your computer to a web server.

[B]FYI[/B] - An abbreviation meaning for your information.

[B][SIZE="4"]G[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Get [/B]- A very good or exclusive interview.

[B]GIF[/B] - A type of picture file, often used for images that include text.

[B]Glossite[/B] - The website of a glossy women’s magazine.

[B]Graf[/B] - Paragraph.

[B]Grip[/B] - A person that looks after the equipment required to make a TV camera move.

[B][SIZE="4"]H[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Hard copy[/B] - When the article is printed out on paper.

[B]Hits[/B] - Number of downloads of every element of a web page, rather than the page as a whole. A page of 20 images, text boxes, logos and menus will count as 20 hits, so hits are therefore not regarded as a reliable measurement of web traffic.

[B]Headline [/B]- The main title of the article.

[B]Homepage [/B]- The front page of a website.

[B]House style[/B] - A publication’s guide to style, spelling and use of grammar, designed to help journalists write and present in a consistent way for their target audience. The Economist publishes a style guide as does The Guardian.

[B]HTML[/B] - Hyper Text Mark-up Language. Basic programming code used for the design and display of web pages.

[B]Hyperlink [/B]- A link that redirects the user to another web page.

[B][SIZE="4"]I[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Impressions[/B] - The number of times an advertising banner was viewed during a campaign.

[B]An internet[/B] - Any network of connected computers.

[B]The internet[/B] - The international network of interconnected computers. The World Wide Web, email, FTP and usenet are all part of the Internet.
Intranet - A private computer network inside a company or organisation for internal use only.

[B]Intro[/B] - Very important first paragraph, known as a ‘lead’ in the US.
Inventory - The number of advertisement spaces for sale on a web site at a given time.

[B]Island position[/B] - An advert surrounded by editorial content in the middle of the page.

[B]ITV network[/B] - 15 regional franchises that make up ITV1. ITV is the Broadcaster that was formed by the merger of Carlton and Granada.

prieti Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:14 PM

[B][SIZE="4"]J[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Jargon[/B] -any overly obscure, technical, or bureaucratic words that would not be used in everyday language

[B]Journalese [/B]-a type of jargon used by newspaper writers or language used by journalists that would never be used in everyday speech

[B]Jump line[/B]-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

[B][SIZE="4"]K[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Kicker[/B] -an ending that finishes a story with a climax, surprise, or punch line

[B]Kerning[/B] - Adjustment of horizontal space between two written characters.

[B]Kill [/B]- To cancel or delete a story.

[B]Kill fee[/B] - A reduced fee paid to a journalist for a story that is not used.

[B][SIZE="4"]L[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Layout editor [/B]-the person who begins the layout plan, considering things like placement and amount of space allotted to news and advertising copy, graphics, photos, and symbols

[B]Lead [/B]-the first sentence or first few sentences of a story

[B]Libel[/B] -publishing in print (or other media) false information that identifies and deframes an individual

[B][SIZE="4"]M[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Mark[/B] - Correction.

[B]Mash up, mashup, or mash-up [/B]- a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.

[B]Masthead[/B] - Main title section and name at the front of a publication.

[B]Media Kit[/B] - Practical information available to potential advertisers regarding costs etc. See the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Belfast Telegraph for examples.

[B]Microblogs[/B] - Blogs dealing with very specialised discussion.

[B]Moblogging [/B]- Where individuals contribute to a blog using images or text sent from a mobile phone.

[B]MPEG[/B] - Moving Pictures Experts Group. A file format used for digital video.

[B]MPU [/B]- Known as a Messaging Plus Unit, a large square web advert usually in a central position below or inline with editorial. Typically around 350 by 250 pixels in size.

[B]Multimedia[/B] - Term used to describe a range of different delivery formats such as video, audio, text and images, often presented simultaneously on the internet.

[B]Multiplex [/B]- Single digital terrestrial TV transmission comprising of several channels.

[B][SIZE="4"]N[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Navigation[/B] - Structure that helps web users move around the website.

[B]NCTJ[/B] - National Council for Training of Journalists, official UK accreditation board for journalism courses.

[B]Netiquette [/B]- Online etiquette, eg. reciprocal links.

[B]Networked journalism[/B] - Another term to describe participatory journalism or citizen journalism.

[B]News agency [/B]- Company that sells stories to newspapers or magazines.

[B]Newspaper Society[/B] - Industry body representing the regional press & local press.

[B]Newsreader[/B] - Software that helps receive and read RSS blog and news feeds.

[B]NIB[/B] - News in brief - a quick summary of a story.

[B]Nut graf [/B]- Paragraph containing the essential elements of a story.

[B]NUJ[/B] - National Union of Journalists, a UK trade union.

prieti Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:39 PM

[B][SIZE="4"]O[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Ofcom[/B] - Broadcasting industry regulator.

[B]Off diary [/B]- An unscheduled or unpredicted story.

[B]Off the record [/B]- Information that must not be disclosed.

[B]On diary [/B]- Scheduled story.

[B]On spec [/B]- Article that is written ‘just in-case’, but it will only be used if needed.

[B]On the record [/B]- Information given by a source that can be used in an article.

[B]Op-ed [/B]- A feature, usually by a prominent journalist, presenting an opinionated story.

[B]Orphan [/B]- First line of a paragraph appearing on the last line of a column of text. Normally avoided.

[B][SIZE="4"]P[/SIZE][/B]

[B]PACT[/B] - Industry body representing independent cinema and tv producers.

[B]Pay-per-view [/B]- A single programme that the viewer has to pay for.

[B]Pay TV[/B] - Paid subscription service for TV.

[B]PDA [/B]- Personal Digital Assistant. A hand-held computer combining a phone, organiser and web client.

[B]Photoblogging[/B] - Contributing photos to a blog.

[B]Photoshop[/B] - (noun) Computer program used to edit photographs.

[B]Pitch[/B] - Story idea sent to an editor by a reporter.

[B]Pixel[/B] - An on-screen measurement. Most monitors display around 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high.

[B]Podcasts[/B] - MP3 audio recordings that can automatically download to a user’s computer as soon as they are published online.

[B]Point size[/B] - Size of the type face.

[B]Pop-under/pop-behind[/B] - A web advert that opens under the browser window.

[B]Pop-up [/B]- A web advert that pops up on screen. These are commonly blocked with a pop-up blocker.

[B]Post[/B] - To add a comment to a blog.

[B]Pork[/B] - Material held for later use, if needed.

[B]PPA [/B]- Periodical Publishers Association. Industry body representing UK magazine publishers.

[B]Portal[/B] - A busy site often used as a starting point online through services such as messaging, news and searches.

[B]Proof[/B] - Copy of a laid-out page ready to be corrected.

[B]Prosumer[/B] - Marketing term used to describe professional consumers.

[B]Puff piece [/B]- A news story with editorialised, complimentary statements.

[B]Pulldown[/B] - Web text that is activated by a down arrow on a web menu.

[B]Pull-out quote[/B] - Selected quote from a story highlighted next to the main text. Often used in interviews.

[B][SIZE="4"]Q[/SIZE][/B]

[B]QuarkXPress[/B] - Desktop publishing program.

[B]Quote[/B] - Record of what a source or interviewee has said.

[B][SIZE="4"]R[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Radio spectrum [/B]- Total capacity of radio frequencies that can be received.

[B]Rate card[/B] - A list of advertising rates provided by a publisher.

[B]Recto[/B] - Right-hand page.

[B]Redletter[/B] - Exclusive, breaking news coverage of a major news event, printed in red type.

[B]Reporter[/B] - Someone who writes and researches news stories.

[B]Reporters without borders[/B] - An organisation founded in 1985 that fights for press freedom around the world.

[B]Retraction[/B] - A withdrawal of a previously-published story or fact.

[B]Revision[/B] - A re-written or improved story, often with additional quotes or facts.

[B]Rich media[/B] - Artwork formats such as Flash, Java and DHTML that allow interactive or multimedia content.

[B]Roadblock[/B] - The sale of all the adverts on your home page to one advertiser.

[B]Run [/B]- To publish a story.

prieti Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:45 PM

[B][SIZE="4"]S[/SIZE][/B]

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

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

[B]Satellite television [/B]- TV recieved through a satellite dish.

[B]Scoop[/B] - An exclusive or first-published story.

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

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

[B]Server [/B]- A computer that hosts the pages of a web site.

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

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

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

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

[B]Source[/B] - An individual who provides information for a story.

[B]Splash[/B] - Front page story.

[B]Standfirst[/B] - Line of text after the headline that gives more information about the article.

[B]Stet[/B] - Proofreader’s mark for ‘restore to condition before mark up’.

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

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

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

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

[B]Subhead [/B]- A smaller one-line headline for a story.

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

[B][SIZE="4"]T[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Tabloid[/B] - Smaller print newspaper size.

[B]Technobabble[/B] - Confusing technical jargon.

[B]Technorati [/B]- Powerful blog search engine.

[B]Teeline [/B]- A form of shorthand.

[B]Terrestrial television[/B] - TV sent through a beam transmitter directly into the home.

[B]Testimonial[/B] - Endorsement of a product, often by a celebrity or well-respected client.

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

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

[B]Tip[/B] - A lead of piece of new information about a new story.

[B]Top heads [/B]- Headlines at the top of a column.

[B]Traffic [/B]- Amount of users recorded by a website.

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

[B][SIZE="4"]U[/SIZE][/B]

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

[B]Upload [/B]- To publish a file on the internet.

[B]URL [/B]- Uniform Resource Locator, technical name for a web address.

[B]User[/B] - A visitor or reader on a web site.

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

[B][SIZE="4"]V[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Verso [/B]- Left-hand page.

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

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

[B][SIZE="4"]W[/SIZE][/B]

[B]Warblogs[/B] - Opinionated and political web logs.

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

[B]Webmercials[/B] - Similar format to television adverts used online.

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

[B]Widow[/B] - Last line of paragraph appearing on the first line of a column of text.

[B]Wi-fi[/B] - Wireless internet or network connection.

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

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

[B]Wob[/B] - White text on a black or other coloured background.

Janeeta Tuesday, May 13, 2008 01:46 AM

[B][COLOR="Blue"][SIZE="5"]A[/SIZE][/COLOR]
ABC [/B]- Audit Bureau of Circulations; a group that audits newspaper circulation figures.

[B]ACAP [/B]- Automated Content Access Protocol, a platform that would allow search engines to recognise the terms and conditions of specific websites.

[B]Add -[/B] Copy to be added to a story already written.

[B]Adobe InDesign [/B]- Desktop publishing program, now being used more widely in place of QuarkXPress.

[B]Ad impression [/B]- Term used to describe the number of times an advert is seen. Advertisers usually sell space based on the exposure per thousand impressions. This is called Cost per impression (CPM). Alternatively, they might sell on a pay-per-click (CPC) basis (also known as cost-per-click - CPC)

[B]ADSL [/B]- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line; high bandwidth web connection often just called broadband.

[B]Advance [/B]- A story outlining a future event. Also means to raise the priority of a story or an upfront payment for written work, particuarly long articles or text.
[B]
All Caps[/B] - A word or sentence written in all capital letters.

[B]Advertorial -[/B] An advert in the form of a complementary editorial piece, usually labelled as an advert.

[B]Analogue television [/B]- TV transmitted in radio waves as opposed to digital TV.

[B]Angle [/B]- The approach or focus of a story. This is sometimes known as the peg.

[B]AP [/B]- the abbreviation for the Associated Press.

[B]Assignment[/B] - A job given to a journalist by an editor.

[B]Astroturfing [/B]- A term used to describe fake grassroots support on websites and in blog comments. A method most usually employed by the public relations and advertising industry and political groups.

[B]Attribute[/B] - to quote the original source of material, whether it be a quote of copyrighted work.

[B]Audit[/B] - An independent assessment of the validity of statistics used in adverts, newspapers etc.

[B]AOP[/B] - Formed in 2002, the Association of Online Publishers is an industry body for UK web publishers. The AOP represents the interests of 160 publishing companies.

[B]Average issue readership[/B] - Number of people who have read the newspaper or magazine in the period that it was issued, also known as AIR.

[COLOR="blue"][SIZE="5"]B[/SIZE][/COLOR]
B2B - Business to business; describes a business whose primary customers are other businesses.

B2C - Business to customer; describes a business whose primary customers are individuals.

Background - Information given to a reporter to explain more about the situation and details of a story. Sometimes shortened to BG.

Back bench - Senior journalists on a newspaper.

Bandwidth - The amount of data that can be transferred through an internet connection.

Banner ad - Web advert, normally found at the top of a page. Typically around 468 by 60 pixels in size. Sometimes called a web banner.

BARB - Broadcasting Audience Research Board, measures TV audience numbers.

BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation.

Beat - The area or subject that a reporter regularly covers.

Best boy - Broadcasting term for second-in-command of a lighting team.

Blawg - Weblog dealing with aspects of law.

Bliki - Combination of a blog and a wiki; a blog that can be edited by readers or an approved group of users.

Blind interview - An interview with an unnamed source.

Blog - An online commentary or diary often written by individuals about hobbies or areas of specialist interest. Blogs commonly allow comments below entries and are published in reverse chronological order. Also known as a weblog.

Blogger - A person who writes a blog.

Blogosphere/Blogdom/Blogiverse/Blogmos/Blogostan - All things relating to blogs and blog communities.

Blurb - Brief introduction to the writer, usually following the headline.

BRAD - British Rate and Data; a company that logs every periodical that has to do with advertising in Britain.

Break - When a story is first published. Sometimes called breaking news.

Broadcast - communicating using radio and/or TV.

Browser - A piece of software that allows users to view internet pages. Popular browsers include Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.

Bulks - Copies distributed free, normally for promotion.

Bump - To move the position or timing of a story.

Button - A small web advertisement, usually around 165 by 90 pixels in size and commonly found in the right or left hand columns of a website.

Byline - A journalist’s name at the beginning of a story.

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Cable television [/COLOR][/COLOR][/B]- TV delivered into the home through an underground cable.

[B]Campaign [/B]- The various stages of an advertising project from beginning to end.
[B]
Cap [/B]- Upper case.

[B]Caption[/B] - Text printed below a picture used to describe it and who took it. Sometimes called a cutline.

[B]Cascading stylesheets (CSS) -[/B] Technique used for designing web pages. One file that defines the style for a whole site.

[B]Chat rooms[/B] - An interactive part of a website where visitors can write messages to each other people in real time. Also known as forums and message boards.

[B]Churnalism [/B]- Bad journalism; journalists that churn out rewrites of press releases.

[B]Centre of visual interest (CVI) [/B]- The prominent item on a page usually a headline, picture or graphic.

[B]CIOJ [/B]- the Chartered Institute of Journalists.

[B]Circulation [/B]- Number of copies sold by newspapers or magazines. In the UK these figures are monitored by ABC - The Audit Bureau of Circulations.

[B]Citizen journalism[/B] - Term used to describe the reporting of news events by members of the public most commonly on blogs and social networking websites. Other terms include participatory journalism and networked journalism though it should not be confused with civic journalism, which is practiced by professional journalists.

[B]Classified advertising[/B] - Advertising placed by individuals in newspapers. Sometimes called small ads.

[B]Clickthrough [/B]- When a reader clicks on an advert and is redirected to a new page. Advertisers sometimes buy adverts based on a rate per click called a Click-through rate or CTR.

[B]Closed question[/B] - A simple yes/no question that does little to encourage an interviewee to open up.

[B]Column[/B] - A regular feature often on a specific topic, written by the same person who is known as a columnist.

[B]Contempt of court [/B]- The criminal offence of ignoring court rules.

[B]Content management system[/B] - CMS is a program for easily editing and placing content such as text, still images and videos on web sites.

[B]Convergence -[/B] The term used to describe multimedia newsrooms producing news for different publishing platforms.

[B]Cookie [/B]- Small text file that is downloaded to your computer when you visit a site. The next time you visit, the site can use the file to remember details such as your login information.

[B]Copy[/B] - Main text of a story.

[B]Copy approval [/B]- A source or interviewer asking to see the text of an article prior to publication. (Always discouraged!)

[B]Copywriting -[/B] Creating the text for an advertisement.

[B]Coverline[/B] - Captions on a magazine cover.
[B]
Cover story [/B]- Leading story used on front cover.

[B]CPM [/B]- cost per thousand impressions. This is the cost an advertiser pays for 1,000 page views. The M in CPM is the Roman numeral for 1,000.
[B]
Crosshead [/B]- A few words used to break up large amounts of text, normally taken from the main text. Typically used in interviews.

[B]Cub [/B]- A trainee reporter. Also known as a rookie or junior reporter.
[B]
Cut [/B]- To remove text.

[B]Cuttings [/B]- A journalist’s collection of published print work. Also known as clips and sometimes presented as a portfolio.

[B]Cuttings job [/B]- An article which has been put together using research culled from a number of other articles or news items.

[B]Cyber-journalist [/B]- A journalist that works on the internet. An online journalist.

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Dateline - A line at the beginning of a story stating the date and the location.

Deadline - The time at which an editor requests a journalists to finish an assignment.

Death-knock - Calling at the house of a bereaved relative or friend when reporting on the death. Also known as door-stepping.

Deck - Part of the headline which summarises the story. Also known as deck copy or bank.

Defamation - Information that is written by one person which damages another person reputation.

Digg - A community powered internet link recommendation system. Furl offers a similar service.

Direct quote - The exact reproduction of a verbatim quote in quotemarks and correctly attributed.

DHTML - Dynamic HTML. Allows exciting things to happen when you move your mouse over words.

Digital television - TV transmitted in binary format, producing good picture quality.

Direct marketing - Sending advertising material directly to potential customers either by post, fax, email or information by telephone.

Dogblogging - When the upkeep of a weblog becomes a hassle.

Dowdification - Deliberate omission of a term or terms to change the meaning of a quote. Refers to journalist Maureen Dowd.

Download - Copying a file from a website to your own computer.

Draft - The first version of an article before editing and submission to the editor.

Dropdown menus - Name given to website menus that allow users to select from a list of options that drop down in a vertical menu.

DPS - Double-page spread; can also be referred to as a spread.

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e - Often used to indicate an electronic version of something, for example eNews, for an electronic newsletter, or eGovernment, to describe electronic government.

Editor - Someone who prepares material for print or broadcast.

Editorialise - To write in an opinionated way.

Encryption - TV signals encoded so only paying subscribers can watch.

Endnote - Text written at the end of an article stating the authors credentials.

eTail - Online or ‘electronic’ retail.

Exclusivity - When an advert appears exclusively on a page, rather than being in rotation with other ads.

Ezine - Specialized online magazines.

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Feature - A longer, more in-depth article.

Fisk - Detailed word-by-word analysis and critique of an article. Refers to journalist Robert Fisk.

Flash - A program used to display design-heavy, animated content.

Flash - Short news story on a new event.

Flatplan - A page plan that shows where the articles and adverts are laid out.

Follow-up - An update on a previous story.

Font - Typeface.

Freelancer - Someone that works alone, usually on a contract-to-contract basis.

Freesheet - A publication that is free to consumers and generates its revenue from advertising.

Free-to-air - TV service received without having to decode or pay.

Freeview - Commercial free-to-air digital service, between BBC, BSkyB and the transmission firm Crown Castle.

Frontline Club - A club in London that promotes “freedom of expression and support journalists, cameramen and photographers who risk their lives in the course of their work.”

FTP - File Transfer Protocol. A method of moving files, usually used to transfer files from your computer to a web server.

FYI - An abbreviation meaning for your information.

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Get - A very good or exclusive interview.

GIF - A type of picture file, often used for images that include text.

Glossite - The website of a glossy women’s magazine.

Graf - Paragraph.

Grip - A person that looks after the equipment required to make a TV camera move.

[B][COLOR="blue"][SIZE="5"]H[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]
Hard copy - When the article is printed out on paper.

Hits - Number of downloads of every element of a web page, rather than the page as a whole. A page of 20 images, text boxes, logos and menus will count as 20 hits, so hits are therefore not regarded as a reliable measurement of web traffic.

Headline - The main title of the article.

Homepage - The front page of a website.

House style - A publication’s guide to style, spelling and use of grammar, designed to help journalists write and present in a consistent way for their target audience. The Economist publishes a style guide as does The Guardian.

HTML - Hyper Text Mark-up Language. Basic programming code used for the design and display of web pages.

Hyperlink - A link that redirects the user to another web page.

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Impressions - The number of times an advertising banner was viewed during a campaign.

An internet - Any network of connected computers.

The internet - The international network of interconnected computers. The World Wide Web, email, FTP and usenet are all part of the Internet.

Intranet - A private computer network inside a company or organisation for internal use only.

Intro - Very important first paragraph, known as a ‘lead’ in the US.

Inventory - The number of advertisement spaces for sale on a web site at a given time.

Island position - An advert surrounded by editorial content in the middle of the page.

ITV network - 15 regional franchises that make up ITV1. ITV is the Broadcaster that was formed by the merger of Carlton and Granada.

[B][COLOR="blue"][SIZE="5"]J[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]Javascript - A scripting language commonly used to add functionality to web sites beyond that which is achievable in HTML.

JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group. Common type of picture file used on the web.

Joost - interactive television software produced by the makers of Skype and Kazaa.

Journalist - Someone who writes, researches and reports news, or works on the production of a publication. Sometimes shortened to journo, hack or scribe.

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Kerning - Adjustment of horizontal space between two written characters.

Kicker - The first sentence or first few words of a story’s lead, set in a font size larger than the body text of the story.

Kill - To cancel or delete a story.

Kill fee - A reduced fee paid to a journalist for a story that is not used.

Kittyblog - A pointless and boring weblog, possibly about the owner’s cat.

[B][COLOR="blue"][SIZE="5"]L[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B]Layout - (noun) How the page is designed and formatted.

Layout sub-editor - A sub-editor who specialises in laying out pages.

Leader - An article that shows the opinion of a newspaper.

Leading - Adjustment of vertical space between two lines.

Leading questions - A question that contains the predicted answer within the question.

Libel - A case for defamation. Defendent would need to show claims were true, fair comment or an accurate record of parliamentary or court proceedings.

Licence fee - BBC funding system.

Lobster shift - Working in the hours after a publication has gone to print. Also known as dog watch.

Long tail - The effect of publishing content online and keeping it available in an archive. Unlike in a newspaper, old stories will continue to receive traffic long after publication date, hence the long tail.

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Mark - Correction.

Martini media - Media that is available “any time, any place, any where”.

Mash up, mashup, or mash-up - a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.

Masthead - Main title section and name at the front of a publication.

Media Kit - Practical information available to potential advertisers regarding costs etc. See the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Belfast Telegraph for examples.

Microblogs - Blogs dealing with very specialised discussion.

Microblogging - Variant of traditional blogging in which users write brief text messages over the web. Popularized by web site Twitter, which limits users to 140-character updates.

Moblogging - Where individuals contribute to a blog using images or text sent from a mobile phone.

MPEG - Moving Pictures Experts Group. A file format used for digital video.

MPU - Known as a Messaging Plus Unit, a large square web advert usually in a central position below or inline with editorial. Typically around 350 by 250 pixels in size.

Multimedia - Term used to describe a range of different delivery formats such as video, audio, text and images, often presented simultaneously on the internet.

Multiplex - Single digital terrestrial TV transmission comprising of several channels.

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Navigation - Structure that helps web users move around the website.

NCTJ - National Council for Training of Journalists, official UK accreditation board for journalism courses.

Netiquette - Online etiquette, eg. reciprocal links.

Networked journalism - Another term to describe participatory journalism or citizen journalism.

News agency - Company that sells stories to newspapers or magazines.

Newspaper Society - Industry body representing the regional press & local press.

Newsreader - Software that helps receive and read RSS blog and news feeds.

NIB - News in brief - a quick summary of a story.

Nut graf - Paragraph containing the essential elements of a story.

NUJ - National Union of Journalists, a UK trade union.

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Ofcom - Broadcasting industry regulator.

Off diary - An unscheduled or unpredicted story.

Off the record - Information that must not be disclosed.

On diary - Scheduled story.

On spec - Article that is written ‘just in-case’, but it will only be used if needed.

On the record - Information given by a source that can be used in an article.

Op-ed - A feature, usually by a prominent journalist, presenting an opinionated story.

Orphan - First line of a paragraph appearing on the last line of a column of text. Normally avoided.

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PDF - Portable Document Format – a standard file format that allows web publishers to post documents viewable by any user who installs a copy of the free Acrobat Reader.

PACT - Industry body representing independent cinema and tv producers.

Pay-per-view - A single programme that the viewer has to pay for.

Pay TV - Paid subscription service for TV.

PDA - Personal Digital Assistant. A hand-held computer combining a phone, organiser and web client.

Photoblogging - Contributing photos to a blog.

Photoshop - (noun) Computer program used to edit photographs.

Pitch - Story idea sent to an editor by a reporter.

Pixel - An on-screen measurement. Most monitors display around 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high.

Podcasts - MP3 audio recordings that can automatically download to a user’s computer as soon as they are published online.

Point size - Size of the type face.

Pop-under/pop-behind - A web advert that opens under the browser window.

Pop-up - A web advert that pops up on screen. These are commonly blocked with a pop-up blocker.

Post - To add a comment to a blog.

Pork - Material held for later use, if needed.

PPA - Periodical Publishers Association. Industry body representing UK magazine publishers.

Portal - A busy site often used as a starting point online through services such as messaging, news and searches.

Proof - Copy of a laid-out page ready to be corrected.

Prosumer - Marketing term used to describe professional consumers.

Puff piece - A news story with editorialised, complimentary statements.

Pulldown - Web text that is activated by a down arrow on a web menu.

Pulitzer Prize - American journalism awards. There are fourteen prizes for journalism. The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.

Pull-out quote - Selected quote from a story highlighted next to the main text. Often used in interviews.

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QuarkXPress - Desktop publishing program.

Quote - Record of what a source or interviewee has said.

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Radio spectrum - Total capacity of radio frequencies that can be received.

Rate card - A list of advertising rates provided by a publisher.

Recto - Right-hand page.

Redletter - Exclusive, breaking news coverage of a major news event, printed in red type.

Reporter - Someone who writes and researches news stories.

Reporters without borders - An organisation founded in 1985 that fights for press freedom around the world.

Retraction - A withdrawal of a previously-published story or fact.

Revision - A re-written or improved story, often with additional quotes or facts.

Rich media - Artwork formats such as Flash, Java and DHTML that allow interactive or multimedia content.

Roadblock - The sale of all the adverts on your home page to one advertiser.

RSS - This began life as Rich Site Summary in 1999, then mutated to Really/Real Simple Simple Syndication in 2002, then Real Simple Synchronisation in 2005.

Run - To publish a story.

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Sell - Short sentence promoting an article, often pulling out a quote or a interesting sentence. See also Pull-out quote.

Spider - Also known as a crawler or ant, a program that uses hyperlinks to make methodical searches of the web to provide information about pages for search engines.

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.

Spike - Not to publish a submitted article.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Vertical search engine - A search engine containing information on a specific subject area.

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Web scraping - Automated process of finding content on web pages and converting it into another form for use on another web site.

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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[B]flag/mast[/B]:the main logo design of the paper that appears on the front page.
[B]vox pops: [/B]voice of the people, should only be used when
the people can realistically be expected to have some knowledge about the subject, or when their views are of interest to other.
[B]boston box[/B]: a graphic that pulls a quote rfom a story that tells you what section of the paper you are in.
[B]wire: [/B]a source of information to journalists.
[B]syntax: [/B]the way the word are put togather to make senetces.
[B]photographs "Grip and Grin"[/B]:These are photos of people receiving awards or diplomas,cutting ribbons or passing out cheques. They just do the ‘handshake' pose and smile at the camera.
[B]scrum:[/B]The gathering of reporters around a person who is important to a particular story.
[B]Masthead:[/B] This appears on the editorial page, and it lists the names and positions of all individuals on the newspaper, along with guidelines for letters to the editor.

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[B]Piggyback[/B]: back 2 back scheduling of two or more brand commercials of one advertiser in network.
[B]ROS:[/B] run of schedule
[B]Strip:[/B] a program scheduled at the same time each day, typically mon-fri..
[B]Clearance:[/B] a station's agreement to carry a particular program.

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[B]Add[/B]: An addition to a story already written or in the process of
being written.

[B]Assignment:[/B] Instruction to a reporter to cover an event.

[B]Attribution: [/B]Designation of the person being quoted. Also, the source
of information in a story.

[B]Banner: [/B]Headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page. Also called a line, ribbon, streamer, screamer.

[B]B copy:[/B] Bottom section of a story written ahead of an event that
will occur too close to deadline for the entire story to be processed.

[B]Beat:[/B] Area assigned to a reporter for regular coverage. Also, an
exclusive story.

[B]Break: [/B]When a news development becomes known and available.
Also, the point of interruption in a story continued from one page to another.

[B]Bright:[/B] Short, amusing story.

[B]Bulldog:[/B] Early edition, usually the first of a newspaper.

[B]Byline:[/B] Name of the reporter who wrote the story, placed atop the
published article.

[B]Cold type: [/B]In composition, type set photographically or by pasting up
letters and pictures on acetate or paper.

[B]Correspondent:[/B] Reporter who sends news from outside a newspaper
office.

[B]Crony journalism:[/B] Reporting that ignores or treats lightly negative news
about friends of a reporter.

[B]Crop:[/B] To cut or mask the unwanted portions, usually of a
photograph.

[B]Cut:[/B] Printed picture or illustration. Also, to eliminate material
from a story.

[B]Cutline: [/B]Any descriptive or explanatory material under a picture.

[B]Dateline:[/B] Name of the city or town and sometimes the date at the
start of a story that is not of local origin.

[B]Enterprise copy:[/B] Story, often initiated by a reporter, that digs deeper than the usual news story.

[B]Exclusive:[/B] Story a reporter has obtained to the exclusion of the
competition.

[B]News hole:[/B] Space in a newspaper allotted to news, illustrations and
other nonadvertising material.

[B]Off-the-record:[/B] Describes material offered the reporter in confidence. If the reporter accepts the material with this understanding,it cannot be used except as general background in a later story.

[B]Op-ed page: [/B]Abbreviation for the page opposite the editorial page. The page is frequently devoted to opinion columns and related illustrations.

[B]Overnight:[/B] Story usually written late at night for the afternoon newspapers of the next day.

[B]Pool:[/B] Arrangement whereby limited numbers of reporters and photographers are selected to represent all those assigned to the story.

[B]Press release:[/B] Publicity handout, or a story given to the news media for publication.

[B]Puff piece or puffery:[/B] Publicity story or a story that contains unwarranted superlatives.

[B]Roundup:[/B] A story that joins two or more events with a common
theme, such as traffic accidents, weather, police reports.

[B]Rowback:[/B] A story that attempts to correct a previous story without
indicating that the prior story had been in error or without taking responsibility for the error.

[B]Running story:[/B] Event that develops and is covered over a period of time.

[B]Sell:[/B] Presentation a reporter makes to impress the editor with
the importance of his or her story.

[B]Shirttail:[/B] Short, related story added to the end of a longer one.

[B]Sidebar:[/B] Story that emphasizes and elaborates on one part of
another nearby story.

[B]Situation:[/B] Story that pulls together a continuing event for the reader
who may not have kept track as it unfolded.

[B]Slant:[/B] To write a story so as to influence the reader’s thinking.

[B]Source: [/B]Person, record, document or event that provides the
information for the story.

[B]Split page:[/B] Front page of an inside section.

[B]Stringer:[/B] Correspondent, not a regular staff member, who is paid by
the story or by the number of words written.

[B]Feature:[/B] Story emphasizing the human or entertaining aspects of a
situation. A news story or other material differentiated from straight news.

[B]File:[/B] To send a story to the office usually by wire or telephone
or to put news service stories on the wire.

[B]Fag:[/B] Printed title of a newspaper on page one.

[B]Folo:[/B] Story that follows up on a theme in a news story.

[B]Futures calendar:[/B] Date book in which story ideas, meetings and activities scheduled for a later occurrence are listed.

[B]Graf:[/B] Abbreviation for paragraph.

[B]Guild:[/B] Newspaper Guild, an international union to which
reporters and other newspaper workers belong.

[B]Handout: [/B]Term for written publicity or special-interest news sent to
a newspaper for publication

[B]Hard news:[/B] Spot news; live and current news in contrast to features.

[B]HFR:[/B] Abbreviation for “hold for release.” Material that cannot
be used until it is released by the source or at a designated time.

[B]Insert:[/B] Material placed between copy in a story.

[B]Investigative reporting:[/B] Technique use to unearth information that sources often want hidden.

[B]Jump:[/B] Continuation of a story from one page to another.

[B]Kill:[/B] To delete a section from copy or to discard the entire story.

[B]Lead:[/B] First paragraph in a news story.

[B]Localize:[/B] To emphasize the names of persons from the local
community who are involved in events outside the city or region.

[B]LTK:[/B] Designation on copy for “lead to come.”

[B]Makeup:[/B] Layout or design. The arrangement of body type, headlines, and illustrations into pages.

[B]Masthead:[/B] Formal statement of newspaper’s name, officers, place of
publication and other descriptive information, usually on the editorial page.

[B]Morgue: [/B]Newspaper library

[B]Tight:[/B] Refers to a paper so crowded with ads that the news space
must be reduced.

[B]Tip:[/B] Information passed to a reporter, often in confidence.

[B]Verification:[/B] Determination of the truth of the material the reporter
gathers or is given.

[B]Wire services:[/B] Synonym for press associations, the Associated Press and United Press International.

[B][U]Broadcasting Terms
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[B]Close-up:[/B] Shot of the face of the subject that dominated the frame
so that little background is visible.

[B]Cover shot: [/B]A long shot usually cut in at the beginning of a sequence
to establish place or location.
[B]Cue:[/B] A signal in a script or by word or gesture to begin or to stop.

[B]Cutaway:[/B] Transition shot - usually short - from one theme to
another; used to avoid jump cut.

[B]Dissolve:[/B] Smooth fading of one picture for another.

[B]FI or fade in:[/B] A scene that begins without full brilliance and gradually
assumes full brightness.

[B]Lead-in:[/B] Introductory statement to film or tape of actual event.

[B]Lead-out:[/B] Copy that comes immediately after tape of film of an
actuality.

[B]Long shot:[/B] Framing that takes in the scene of the event.

[B]Medium shot:[/B] Framing of one person from head to waist or of a small
group seated at a table.

[B]Montage:[/B] A series of brief shots to give a single impression or
communicate one idea.

[B]Outtakes:[/B] Scenes that are discarded for the final story.

[B]Panning or pan shot:[/B] Moving the camera from left to right or right to left.

[B]Remote:[/B] A taped or live broadcast from a location outside the studio; also, the unit that originates such a broadcast.

[B]Segue:[/B] An uninterrupted transition from one sound to another; a sound dissolve.

[B]Zooming:[/B] Use of a variable focus lens to take close-ups and wide
angle shots from a stationary position.


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