| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Angle | The focus, approach to a story |
| Beat | Reporter's assigned area of responsibility |
| Circulation | Department responsible for distribution, the number of readership |
| Copy | What reporters write |
| Deadline | Time or date by which a story is submitted |
| Developing Story | News event that occurs over a period of time |
| Editorialize | To inject the reporter's opionion- =( |
| (Nut) Graf | Paragraph of a news story |
| Info Graphic | Visual representation of data |
| Libel | Written defamation of character |
| Slander | Spoken lies, defamation of character |
| Morgue | Newspaper records where published stories, photographs are kept |
| Off The Record | Not for quotation, don't list/use as a source |
| Plagiarism | A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work-JASON BLAIR=( |
| Records | Part of the paper that contains births, deaths, legal transactions, and police blotter |
| Side Bar | Story which runs right next to a main story on the same topic |
| Source | Person/document from which reporters get information |
| Summary Lead | A lead that porvides the briefest possible summary of the major facts of a story in one or two sentences, containing the 5 W's |
| AP/UPI | Wire Services |
| Tickler | Also known as a future file |
| Undercover | Technique in which reporters pretend to be someone else |
| Cub Reporter | New reporter, rookie, greenhorn |
| Yellow Journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to emphsise hoaxes, scandals, and sensationalism |
| Muckraking | Socially concious journalism |
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