A Crossroads Resource
| Ad | printed notice of something for sale (short for advertisement) |
| AP | abbreviation for the Associated Press, a wire service |
| Assignment | the event or situation a reporter is supposed to report on coming directly from the speaker's mouth |
| Balloon | a drawing usually in a comic strip which makes words appear to be coming directly from the speaker's mouth |
| Banner | a headline that runs across the entire page Body; the main part of a story |
| Bold Face | heavy or dark type Box border around any story or photo |
| Byline | the reporter's name which appears at the head of a news or picture story |
| Columnist | a person who writes a regular column giving a personal opinion |
| Copy | all material used for publication |
| Copy Editor | the person who edits news stories and writes headlines |
| Credit Line | the name of a photographer or artist below a piece of art |
| Cutline | explanatory information under a picture or piece of art; also called a caption |
| Dateline | words at the beginning of a story that give the story's place of origin |
| Edit | to correct and prepare copy for publication |
| Editor | a person who decides what stories will be covered, assigns reporters to stories, improves the stories that reporters write, and decides where stories will appear in the newspaper |
| Editorial | an article expressing the opinion of the newspaper editor or management |
| Feature | a news story that may not have late-breaking news value, but is timely and of interest to readers |
| Filler | a story with little news value used to fill up space |
| Flag | the newspaper's name as it appears at the top of the first page; also known as the logotype or nameplate |
| Hard News | urgent news, usually of a serious nature, found in the front pages of a newspaper |
| Headline | words in large type at the top of a story telling what the story is about; also called head Inverted form for a news story where the important facts are listed first and additional Pyramid details follow |
| Lead | (pronounced "leed") the first paragraph or two of a news story, telling who, what, where, when, why, and how |
| Obit | short for obituary, a death notice |
| Op-ed | a page opposite the editorial page, where opinions by guest writers are presented |
| Reporter | person sent to gather information and write a news story for the newpaper |
| Scoop | a story obtained before other newspapers receive the information |
| UPI | abbreviation for United Press International, a wire service |
| Wire Service | a news agency which sends out news stories from around the world to subscribing newpapers |