| Term | Definition |
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| cybersqatting | when someone registers a user name or domain name with the intent to Profit from it. the name usually belings to a person or a trade mark company. |
| ARPAnet | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Developed by the U.S. Department of defense. the predecessor to the Global Internet. |
| Mass Market Paperback | refers to the cover of the book and the binding. when a company wishes to widely distribute a a book at low costs |
| Royalties | income based on the number of books that actually are sold |
| Publishing Houses | Any of the large Publishing companies that purchase manuscripts through agents through agents or from authors. they make all editorial decisions regarding content & style. the pay all production and distribution costs and own copyright |
| Thomas Paine | Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense. arguing for American independence from Britain. |
| Wall street Journal | # 2 in national circulation. deals mostly with financial issue. Fold Style. Sophisticated paper |
| seven Sisters | 1)Better Homes and gardens, 2) Family Circle 3) Good House Keeping 4) Ladies' Home Journal 5) McCall's 6) Red Book 7) Women s Day journal |
| Ida Tarbell | A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil. |
| Muckrakers | Journalists who attempted to find corruption or wrongdoing in industries and expose it to the public |
| Narrow casting | the practice of many radio and television news departments of directing their programming toward a specific audience rather than the public at large |
| Above the Fold | the top half of the front page where the important news appears to attract readers |
| Hard News | news that deals with serious topics or events. the meat of the paper. ex: war, conflict |
| Soft News | Human Interest News that is not so urgent or important. Ex: in depth story of mother sending her son off to Iraq / 90 yr old woman gets her degree |
| Lead | The Story that is published first or on the front to grab the attention of readers |
| Editor-In-Chief | is its primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies |
| News Pegs | News that is Noteworthy. > Impact: Stock market, gas prices, Tax > Conflict: war, Debate, S/T sports >Prominence: if something happens to someone "important" > Proximity : the closer it happens to you it will make news. |
| Gannett | Founded in 1923 by frank Gannett. The largest U.S. News Paper publisher |
| Katharine Graham | publisher of the washington post, coverage of watergate eventually led to resignation of Nixon |
| Deepthroat ( W. Felt) | The secret Source of W. Felt Who was Vital to the Washington Post Coverage of the Watergate Scandal |
| Jazz Journalism | the journalism style of the roaring 20's. the layout had many photographs |
| Mathew Brady | famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people |
| associated Press | because the telegraph system allowed the exchange of national and international news to be shared by different newspapers, and in 1846, newspaper publishers from around the nation gathered to create an organization that would promote cooperative news gathering by wire. |
| Partisan press | newspapers owned or supported by political parties |
| Penn Journal | The last issue of the magazine had a tombstone on its cover |
| Penn Gazette | B. Franklin took over this Newspaper in 1729. it was in high circulation, had more pages, made more money through advertising revenue, much more literate |
| " By authority" | To be published by authority means that you had a stamp on your newspaper and it was approved by the government. this new authorization shut down all other papers . |
| Spam | unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk) |
| Hacker | a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism |
| emoticons | (also called smileys) A sequence of ordinary characters found on the computer keyboard to reflect the writer's mood. (i.e. :-) for happy) |
| Flaming | A searing e-mail or newsgroup message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh, and ften personal, terms. |
| search engine | a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet) |
| Domain Name | Domain names are part of the URL. Every domain name includes a suffix such as .org, .edu, .com, etc. The suffix indicates the type of organization or business. Examples of top level domain name suffixes - gov, edu, org, mil, com, net. |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| Acquisitions editor | They read Manuscripts and decide if they will make a recommendation to their chief editor about these manuscripts |
| Trade Book | primarily for the purposes of entertainment and information. These are often referred to as library books and story books. |
| Advance | To Pay someone in advance to write a book |
| Negative option | Belonging to Book Clubs that give you the negative option. You receive the product and it is your responsibility to send it back if you don't like it. |
| Dime Novels | inexpensive fiction, popular in the 1860s, that sold for 10 cents; also called pulp novels |
| Political Pamphlets | Pamphlets written about opinions on politics and society. Ex: Thomas Paine Common sense |
| The Fourth Estate | the media is the "fourth Estate" that is there as a part of the checks and balances were the people have the opportunity to make sure the government is doing their job. |
| woodcuts | print of an image that has been carved in wood |
| Margaret Bourke- White | American Photojournalist.First western Photographer allowed in the Soviet Union. She was hired by Henry Luce as the First Female Photojournalist for LIFE magazine. She shot the cover of LIFE |
| Postal Act of 1879 | Granted second class mailing rates to magazines, giving them low cost distribution through the mail system |
| Sarah Hale | She wrote "Mary had a little lamb" Served as an editor of "ladies magazine" in Boston 1836 |
| General Magazine | Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing |
| News Hole | The space left for news after adds are put in. |
| Wire service | Telegraphy; news gathering agencies that provide stories and photos |
| Op-Ed | Opposite of the editorial page - this is where they put the columns and the letters to the editor |
| New York Times | #3 in circulation. > their Motto: "all the news that's fit to print".> Known as the paper of record . > most authoritative news. > they have some of the best known columnist. > their reporters are objective writers . > they at one point used to report the news from all across the country |
| Ben Bradlee | executive editor of Washington Post |
| Watergate | a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice, 1974 this let to the resignation of president Nixon. |
| W.R. Hearst | A Leading newspaper publisher. Already successful he came to NY and Acquired the NYJournal. His success let to him having 30 NP Nation Wide. His circulation rivalry with another NY NP let to the term Yellow Journalism. |
| Yellow Journalism | Journalism the downplays Legitimate News, in favor of eye catching headlines that sell more news papers. its focus is on Sensationalism |
| accreditation | the act of granting credit or recognition. Local NP's and Mags. would not give local writers work becauseit was cheeper to uses works from because you did not have to credit them or even pay them. accreditation made them give all credit for their work |
| NY Sun | made by Benjamin Day. (1833) called it the penny press because it only cost 1cent. First mass Production; steam engine press >Low cost distribution; used paper boys yelling the headline on the corners;> accepted many adds to keep costs down. its content appealed to the working class. |
| Vanity Publishing | without going to the classic more respected forms of publishing and publishing yourself |
| British Stamp act | An imposed tax passed by parliament. it made every sheet of paper, being playing cards to newspapers, to carry a tax stamp |
| Pennsylvania journal | weekly/semi-weekly (1742-93) By William Bradford |
| Boston Newsletter | About weekly, Four Pages, relatively expensive. Published by" Authority". > Foreign News |
| Woodward and Bernstien | Journalist for the Washington Post broke the Watergate story |
| Alternative Press | News Papers that focus on different things such as gay rights and night clubs |
| Beat Reporter | a journalist who has been assigned a particular area from which they are expected to write news stories |
| USA Today | published by Gannett #1 in Circulation |
| City editor | a newspaper editor responsible to local news and reports assignments |
| Quark Express | used to to edit complex web page layouts. first released in 1987 |
| American magazine | first American Magazine Published my Miriam Leslie |
| E-Book | Books available to download or read online |
| over the Transom | Origianly a window over a door. when the door is closed you pass something over the transom. Manuscripts finding its way to an editor |
| Blockbuster | An unusually successful hit with wide spread popularity and huge sales |
| international Copyright law of 1891 | Gave credit and payed foreign writers |
| Book (by definition) | > all hardcover volumes that are not magazines regardless of length. > all juvenile titles(hard or soft regardless of length but not coloring books) > All soft bound volumes that are not magazines ( which could be pamphlets) |
| Bay pslams book | first book published in america |
| Audit Buera of Circulation | a non-forprofit organization that audits books to check for content |
| Henry Luce | Time/ Life/fortune magazine |
| S. McClure "McClure" | Early 20th centruty. Published many authors of the time such as mark twain |
| Saturday Evening Post | A weekly magazine published by the curtis publishing company. |
| Objectivity | when news reporters write without bias |
| Newsgroup | a bulliten board of news information users specify which news topics they are interested in. and subscribe to receive information on the topic |
| User ID | Your personal Identification |
| Domain | the portionof an internet address that follows the @ symbol and identifies the computer you are loging on to. |
| Browser | Application software that allows users to access and view web pages. |
| netiquette | the rules for good manners on the internet. |
| Lurking | Hiding or moving about in a secret and sly manner on the internet. |
| Distance Learning | Online classes |
| Firewall | (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers |
| Boston News- Letter | 1704 about weekly, 4 pages relitlvely expensive. published by a printer not news people. not critical of government . it was published by authority. brought foreign news |
| Op-Ed | opposite of the editorial page- this is where they put the columnist &the letters to the editor |
| United press international | UPI a modern Agency that works as a news wire service |
| Freedoms Journal | Russwurm / Cornish = Abolitionist. alternative presses and began with this paper |
| John Zenger | Brought up on charges of Libel. he was a printer / publisher / editor. he said some things against a public offical. you can only be brought up on charges of libel if what they said is a lie. if its true they have the right to publish it. |
| New England Courant | Newspaper, James Franklin. it was a paper of political bravery. it was one of the first to use literary content. 1st independent press |
| Publick occurences | the first newspaper of the colonies, published in Boston, made by benjamin harris . Single sheet- one side left blakn so that people could write on it. first US paper to publish more than once. it had sensational news |
| Reliability of the internet | not that reliable |
| Social networking site | MySpace, Facebook, Blackplanet, friendster |
| Book Publishing Staff | 1) Editor in chief 2) Acquisition editor 3)production Editor 4) Desighner 5) Marketing 6)Agent 7) writer |
| News Pegs | Impact, Conflict, Prominence, proximity, |
| if it Bleeds it Leads | if its about death or people dieing!! put it first!!! |
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