Journalism Q3 Vocabulary

an addition to a story already written or in the process of being written

• add

• feature

• roundup

• rowback

headline across or near the top of all or most of a newspaper page (aka: ribbon, streamer, line)

• news hole

• banner

• verification

• B copy

in composition, type set photographically or by pasting up letters and pictures

• press release

• masthead

• cold type

• makeup

name of the city or town and sometimes the date at the start of a story that is not of local origin

• banner

• dateline

• masthead

• guild

story, often initiated by a reporter, that digs deeper than the usual news story

• enterprise copy

• handout

• verification

• exclusive

story emphasizing the human or entertaining aspects of a situation; a news story or other material

• press release

• op-ed page

• investigative reporting

• feature

abbreviation for a paragraph

• graf

• para

• raga

• pararagragraph

term for written publicity or special-interest news sent to a newspaper for publication

• press release

• handout

• pool

• assignment

material placed between copy in a story

• insert

• lead

• file

• hard news

continuation of a story from one page to another

• tip

• shirttail

• jump

• localize