Online News Article Vocabulary

What is a headline?

• Title of the news article and usually printed in big, bold letters at the top of the page

• a unique, one-of-a-kind address of an article on the Internet

• Tells the reader the name of the person who wrote the article

• link to another website and not usually news

What is the byline?

• The author of the article
• an advertisement

• a photo or video of

• link to another website and not usually news

What is the URL?

• a photo or video near the top of the article

• tells you how recent the article was published

• a unique, one-of-a-kind address of an article on the Internet

• helps the website make money by selling space on their article pages

An image is

• link to another website and not usually news

• a place for readers to post reactions, thoughts, etc. about an article.

• tells you how recently the article was published

• a photograph or video near the top of the article

What is sponsored content?

• Links to another website and not usually news

• tells the reader the name of the person who wrote the article.

• title of the news article

• a place for readers to post reactions to article

A byline is.....

• links to more articles from the same website and can be like the ones you are reading.

• a photograph or video near the top of the article

• the name of the person who wrote the article

• a unique one-of-a-kind address of an article on the Internet

The date is....

• a place for readers to post reactions, thoughts, etc. about an article

• where you can find out how recently the article was published

• links to another website and not usually news

• a photograph or video near the top of the article

What are related articles?

• links to more articles from the same website and can be like the ones you are reading.

• helps the news website make money by selling space on their article pages

• title of the news article and usually printed in big bold lettering at the top of the page.

• tells the type of article you are reading and the category

What is the section title?

• links to another website and not usually news

• links to more articles from the same website and can be like the ones you are reading

• tells the type of article you are reading and the category it fits into

• tells the reader how recently the article was published

What are ads (advertisements)?

• a place for readers to post reactions, thoughts, and questions about an article

• title of the news article

• links to more articles from the same website and can be like the ones you are reading

• helps the news website make money by selling space on their article pages