Journalism Jargon Review Questions with Verified Solutions (Already Passed)

Journalism Jargon Review Questions with Verified Solutions (Already Passed) Angle - Answers the focus or approach to a story AP style - Answers the journalistic standard for grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviation and word usage Attribution - Answers identification of speaker(source); he said/she said Banner - Answers a headline in large type running across the entire page Beat - Answers a reporter's assigned area of responsibility Bias - Answers an inclination that prevents objective reporting in a story Bleed - Answers an illustration filling one or margins and running off the page or border Body - Answers copy main text of a story Byline - Answers the line identifying the author of a story Circulation - Answers total number of copies distributed Column - Answers the arrangement of type in a newspaper; regularly run piece that expresses the personal experience or opinion of its author Copy - Answers the text of a reporter's story Copy editing - Answers the process whereby a reporter's story is edited Crop - Answers to eliminate portions of copy or photos by reducing the size Cutline/caption - Answers the caption that accompanies a photograph; must be a complete sentence containing a present tense verb Deadline - Answers the time by which a reporter or editor must have completed his assigned task Direct quote - Answers copy reflecting the source's exact words, set in quotation marks Dummy - Answers a mock-up of a newspaper page, showing placement of stories, headlines and photos Editing - Answers to prepare for publication by changing, correcting or adapting Editorial - Answers an article in a publication expressing the opinion of its editors or publishers; appears on the editorial page Editorial cartoon - Answers an illustration containing a message Ethics - Answers principles of good practices evergreen - Answers a feature story without a strong timed element, that does not have to run immediately 5W's (and H) - Answers who, what, when, where and why (how) Features - Answers extended articles or items about events, persons or circumstances Filler - Answers copy with little news value; used to fill space Folio - Answers the heading of inside pages, indicating section, school name and page number Follow - Answers a story supplying further information about a previously published story Flag - Answers stylized signature of a newspaper that appears at the top of front page Gutter - Answers space between columns or margins between facing pages Hard news - Answers coverage of a timely news piece related to the actions of government or business (in our case, school) Headline - Answers display type placed over a story; must include action verb Human interest - Answers a story valued more for its emotional impact than for its importance Indirect quote - Answers using a version of a speaker's words without quotation marks Inverted pyramid - Answers the organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance