Newspaper Words
Across
- 1. heavy or dark type
- 2. any photograph, map, graph, or illustration
- 3. any typographical device used for ornamentation
- 6. abbrevation for the Associated Press, a wire service
- 7. a large black dot used at the left edge of a column to mark each item in a series
- 8. the main part of a story
- 11. an out-of-town reporter
- 12. a diagram of a newspaper page used to show printers where stories, pictures and ads are to be placed
- 13. words at the beginning of a story that give the story's place of origin
- 14. articles that have been ct out of the newspaper
- 15. explanatory info under a picture or piece of art (caption)
- 17. short for a word meaning death notice
- 18. to cut away unwanted parts of a picture
- 19. all material used for publication
- 20. initial news coverage of an event
- 22. to correct and prepare copy for publication
Down
- 1. the area of news regularly covered by a reporter
- 3. time at which all copy for an edition MUST be in
- 4. the reporter's name which appears at the head of a news or picture story
- 5. a drawing, usually in a comic strip which makes words appear to be coming directly from the speaker's mouth
- 9. the event or situation a reporter is supposed to report on
- 10. printed notice of something for sale
- 11. a person who writes a regular column giving a personal opinion
- 14. to get all the facts about a news event for a story
- 15. to set type
- 16. a person who decided what stories will be covered, assigns writers to stories, improves the stories and decides what stories will be in the newspaper
- 18. abbreviation for capital letters
- 19. to shorten a picture
- 20. border around a story or photo
- 21. delete or cut a copy