Media Vocabulary

A false report maliciously uttered and tending to injure the reputation of a person

• Slander

• Headline

• Opinion

• Feature

A person who gathers and reports news for a news organization

• media

• editor

• eyewitness

• journalist/reporter

All the media and agencies that print, broadcast, or gather and transmit news

• Fake News

• the Press

• the Internet

• Journalism

A person's thoughts about a particular subject; a subjective point of view

• eyewitness

• source

• feature

• opinion

Not affected by personal feelings or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased

• opinion

• objective

• subjective

• bias

a report of a recent event; what is reported about a recent event or events

• media

• news

• press

• column

All the means of mass communication (newspapers, TV, radio, websites, magazines)

• the Press

• news

• the Media

• Articles

a lie that causes damage (misrepresents damagingly)

• Libel

• Fake News

• Bias

• Subjective

a person who writes news articles for a news organization

• Editor

• the Press

• Journalist

• Source

The title of a news article

• Caption

• Dateline

• Headline

• Byline