Newspaper Terms

4. margin between facing pages in the vertical fold.
7. statement made by another person. A direct quotation is exactly what the person said and is placed in quotation marks. An indirect quote paraphrases what the person said and is not in quotation marks.
10. a column featured on the editorial page that expresses an opinion of the newspaper and encourages the reader to take action.
12. explains what is happening in a photograph or illustration. The term “cut” was first used when images in the newspaper were printed from carved wood and etched metal. This may include a photo credit.
13. statement that can be proven (not an opinion).
14. tells who wrote the story and may include the writer’s title.
16. Ws and H information always included in a news story and answering the questions who, what, when, where, why and how.
17. location where an event took place and sometimes the date, usually at the very start of a story. Date and location were first used when news often took days to reach a reader.
18. information provided about an event shortly after it occurs.

1. 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.
2. story one in which the basic purpose is something other than news.
3. first paragraph of the story that summarizes it and/or grabs the reader’s attention.
5. line that tells the reader on which page a story is continued.
6. brief story with a special angle that goes with the main story.
8. large type written and designed to summarize a story and attract the reader’s attention.
9. use of lines, screens, boxes and large first letters to break up areas of space on the page.
11. tells the reader where regularly featured pages, such as sports, weather and local news, can be found.
15. formal statement of the newspaper’s name, officers, management and place of publication, usually on the editorial page.