Editing Terms week 1
Terms
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copy deck
- Add
- fresh copy to be added to an already written story
- advance
- a pre-event story, a preliminary story
- agate
- very small type, (5-6 pt) used for statistics
- AMs
- morning newspapers
- angle
- phase or part of the story, perspective of a story
- art
- any newspaper illustration
- banner
- headline extending across an entire page; streamer
- Bank
- part of a headline; also called a deck
- beat
- organizations, entites a reporter is assigned
- attribution
- identifying the source of a story, part of a story
- blind lead
- person identifed in the lead but named later in story
- boil
- drastic reduction in size of a news story
- body
- main part of news story follows lead
- bold face
- a darker, heavier version of a type face
- box
- a story that is enclosed in rules or borders
- by-line
- author's name at the top of a story
- brief
- short news story, usually two or three paragraphs
- break
- point at which story must be carried to another page
- cold type
- electronically and photographically produced body
- copy
- anything that is written for publication
- caps
- capital letters, upper case letters
- cut
- to delete something from a story or story from a page
- clip
- an article taken from another publication
- cutlines
- idenification of subjects and action in a photo
- cropping
- editing a photo to exclude unwanted portions
- down style
- style that tends to avoid capitalization in headlines
- dupe
- duplicate, photocopy or carbon copy of anything
- deck
- lines of type in a headline
- dingbat
- decorative bit of type used to divide units of type in a column
- double truck
- two adjacent newspaper pages made up as one
- drop
- smaller headline below a streamer or banner on same story
- dummy
- a miniaturized, rough mock-up for a newspaper page
- follow
- also called folo or second day story
- ear
- upper right and left hand corners of newspaper front page
- feature
- news story that plays up background, color of an event
- filler
- brief story used to fill in around a longer story
- flag
- the newspaper's name on the editorial page
- folio
- a page number
- font
- a complete assortment of type of a particular design
- FYI
- for your information
- hold
- to delay the use of a story
- hole
- something missing from a story, essential fact, blank spot on a page
- halftone
- photo negative screened with a dot structure
- galley
- metal tray to hold metal type
- HTK
- headline to come
- hot type
- type set by use of melted metal process
- insert
- a paragraph or sentence to be inserted into a story
- jump
- break a story from one page to another
- kill
- do not use a story or advertisment
- lead
- first of first several paragraphs of a news story
- linage
- total number of lines of advertising
- masthead
- statement of ownership, location of offices, etc. in first four pages
- localize
- to emphasize the local angle of a news story
- legman
- reporter who covers news but does not write it
- morgue
- newspaper library or reference collection and files
- must
- an instruction that a story must run
- new journalism
- reporting approach emphasing colorful, involved reporting
- hi
- boston