Journalism Advanced Vocabulary

2. A regular feature in a newspaper or magazine, often on a specific topic, written by the same person who is known as a columnist.
5. To cancel or delete a story.
6. Unanticipated events developing during the publication cycle, requiring updates and occasionally wholesale revision of pages.
9. Senior journalists on a newspaper.
12. The time at which an editor requests a journalist to finish an assignment.
13. The actual text of an article. The journalist is held responsible for the contents of the copy.
15. The approach or focus of a story. Sometimes known as the peg.
16. An advert in the form of a complementary editorial piece, usually labelled as an advert.
17. Bad journalism; journalists that churn out rewrites of press releases.
19. Number of users recorded by a website.
22. A mundane, pointless and usually boring weblog, for example about the owner’s cat.
23. Last line of paragraph appearing on the first line of a column of text.
25. An update on a previous story.
26. Small titles used to announce the subtopic of a segment in the article text.

1. American journalism awards. There are fourteen prizes for journalism. The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University since 1917.
3. An individual who provides information for a story.
4. All things relating to blogs and blog communities.
7. Not to publish a submitted article.
8. To publish a story.
10. An article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
11. Information that is written by one person which damages another person’s reputation.
14. Story idea sent to an editor by a reporter.
17. Number of copies sold by newspapers or magazines. In the UK these figures are monitored by the ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations).
18. Front page story.
20. Leading story used on front cover.
21. The first sentence or first few words of a story’s lead, set in a font size larger than the body text of the story.
24. Information that must not be disclosed.