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WorksheetsJournalism Jargon Vocab
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 12mins
Banner
Name and logo of the newspaper
A flag
Word font
Type of flag for a newspaper company
Dateline
Tells a date about how old the author is
Tells a location only of a news story
Only shows a date of when the event happened
Tells the location and date of a news story
Byline
A line that separates the image and word
The author of the news story
The date of when it happened
A statement to catch reader's attention
A short statement that grabs the reader's attention, summarize important information in the story; is found at beginning of a story, and is usually in large type
Short paragraph
Key story
feature story
Headline
Captions are also known as
Titles
Big line
Cutline
Topline
accompanies a photograph or illustration and explains who/what the image is about
Title
Headline
Caption
Byline
an alphabetical list of news articles - classified by subject, names, personal notices, advertising, illustrations, or other items, found in a newspaper, or group of newspapers.
Index
A,B,C,D
Glossary
Sources
Abbreviation for questions that should be answered from information in any good news story. Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How
6Ws and 1H
Many Ws and a H
the W and H term
5Ws and H
an article, usually featured ln the editorial page, where the newspaper its management or staff, or readers express their opinion nd encourages certain action
Editorial
Editing
Edit page
Page Editiorial
What is also called a Lead?
Top
First
Leader
Lede
The first paragraph of the story that summarizes the story leads the readers interest
Introuduction
Lead
Conclusion
Lede
Photo Credit?
tells who photograph the image
tells who is in the photo
A summary of the photo
tells why the photo was taken
a quote from the news story that is separated and emphasized using special fonts and graphics
Pull quote
Full quote
Tight quote
Light quote
When a story us too long for a collumn and is continued later in the paper, a ________ tells the reader where to fnd the contiunued story
Ending line
Jumpline
Closing line
Formation
News story
a article that has the 5Ws and H
a article that has the 5Ws and H and tells an event that is recent and relevant to people lives
a article that has the 5Ws and H and tells an event that is late
a article that has the 5Ws and H and tells an event that is old and not relevant to people lives
What is also called a Skybox
Trailer
Teaser
Headline
HI BOX
Skybox
Short Headline text or visual that highlight aritcles in the interior of the paper
Short headline text or visual that is highlight the video on TV media
Masthead
Formal statement of the newspapers name, officer. managment and place of publication
A statment of info about the article
A statment issue about the writer
A formal statment of apology because of a certian event
Quotation
"....."
Statment made by a person other than the author and included in the story either using the person's exact words in quatations (direct quote)
A statment that is from a person that is not exact word of the person what they havent actually said
fixed minimum or maximum number of a particular group of people allowed to do something, such as immigrants to enter a country, workers to undertake a job, or students to enroll for a course.
A report that evaluates a restaurant, book, movie, music album or other entertainment
Grade
Sidebar
Action Review
Review
brief story with a special angle that goes with a main story
Specialbar
Anglebar
Sidebar
Mainbar
