Nesletter Crossword
Across
- 2. abbreviation for the Associated Press, a wire service
- 3. a story with little news value, used to fill space
- 4. Inch one inch of type or space (measured vertically), one column wide
- 5. a headline that runs across the entire page
- 6. a special edition of the newspaper, printed between regular editions, containing news too important to hold for the next regular edition
- 8. a person who writes a regular column giving a personal opinion
- 9. to get all the facts about a news event for a story
- 10. an article expressing the opinion of the newspaper editor or management
- 13. Editor the person who edits news stories and writes headlines
- 14. the area of news regularly covered by a reporter (e.g., the city hall or the education beat)
- 15. the event or situation a reporter is supposed to report on
- 17. to set type
- 18. time at which all copy for an edition must be in
- 20. any typographical device used for ornamentation
- 23. border around a story or photo
- 25. Desk the area of the newsroom where local news events are covered
- 26. the reporter’s name, which appears at the head of a news or picture story
- 27. Line the name of the photographer or artist below a piece of art
- 28. Face heavy or dark type
- 29. initial news coverage of an event
Down
- 1. a diagram of a newspaper page used to show printers where stories, pictures and ads are to be placed
- 2. any photograph, map, graph or illustration
- 3. a news story that may not have late-breaking news value, but is timely and of interest to readers
- 4. explanatory information under a picture or piece of art; also called a caption
- 7. an out-of-town reporter
- 9. abbreviation for capital letters
- 11. words at the beginning of a story that give the story’s place of origin
- 12. to shorten a story
- 15. printed notice of something for sale (short for advertisement)
- 16. a drawing, usually in a comic strip, which makes words appear to be coming directly from the speaker’s mouth
- 19. copy in either upper corner of the front page, on either side of the flag (sometimes used for weather, jokes or to call attention to a special feature inside)
- 21. a large, black dot used at the left edge of a column to mark each item in a series
- 22. a person who decides what stories will be covered, assigns reporters to stories, improves the stories that reporters write, and decides where stories will appear in the paper
- 24. articles that have been cut out of the newspaper, short for clippings
- 25. Type type that is produced photographically
- 26. the main part of a story
- 27. to cut away unwanted parts of a picture
- 30. to correct and prepare copy for publication