NEWSPAPER JARGON

3. tells the reader where regularly featured pages, such as sports, weather and local news can be found.
6. a column featured on the editorial page that expresses an opinion of the newspaper and encourages the reader to take action.
7. explains what is happening in a photograph or illustration.
9. first paragraph of the story that summarizes it and/or grabs the reader’s attention.
10. tells who wrote the story and may include the writer’s title.
11. formal statement of the newspaper’s name, officers, management and place of publication, usually on the editorial page.
14. statement made by another person.
15. margin between facing pages in the vertical fold.
17. line that tells the reader on which page a story is continued.

1. story in which the basic purpose is something other than news.
2. location where an event took place and sometimes the date, usually at the very start of a story.
4. brief story with a special angle that goes with the main story.
5. name of the newspaper as it appears atop page one.
7. vertical division of the page that helps to give it structure. Newspaper stories and images are measured in column inches—the number of columns wide by inches long.
8. information provided about an event shortly after it occurs.
12. statement that can be proven (not an opinion).
13. story one written by a reporter working for a news service.
15. use of lines, screens, boxes and large first letters to break up areas of space on the page.
16. large type written and designed to summarize a story and attract the reader’s attention.