Terms in Journalsim

2. To write a story so as to influence the reader's thinking.
3. Person,record, document or event that provides the information for the story.
5. A story that attempts to correct a previous story without indicating that the prior story had been in error or without taking responsibility for the error.
7. Information passed to a reporter, often in confidence.
8. services Synonym for press associations, the Associated Press and United Press International
11. Correspondent, not a regular staff member, who is paid by the story or by the number of words written.
12. Refers to a paper so crowded with ads that the news space must be reduced.
15. Publicity handout, or a story given to the news media for publication.
16. Story that pulls together a continuing event for the reader who may not have kept track as it unfolded.
17. Story that emphasizes and elaborates on one part of another nearby story.
18. Publicity story or a story that contains unwarranted superlatives.
19. Story usually written late at night for the afternoon newspapers of the next day.

1. Arrangement whereby limited numbers of reporters and photographers are selected to represent all those assigned to the story.
2. Presentation a reporter makes to impress the editor with the importance of his or her story.
4. Event that develops and is covered over a period of time.
6. Abbreviation for the page opposite the editorial page. The page is frequently devoted to opinion columns and related illustrations.
9. A story that joins two or more events with a common theme, such as traffic accidents, weather, police reports.
10. Short,related story added to the end of a longer one.
13. Front page of an inside section.
14. Determination of the truth of the material the reporter gathers or is given.