PRINT JOURNALISM 4(1+3)

Lesson 2 : Print Journalism Concepts

Key words

• ABC: Audit Bureau of circulation;
  
• Ad: An Advertisement;
  
• AP: Associated Press;
  
• Bank: Also called as a deck; the part of a headline that usually follows the top or the cross line, often both.
  
• Banner: A headline stretching across all the columns on the top of the front page.
  A banner is also known a streamer.
  
• Beat: The exclusive territory assigned to a reporter or a series of places visited by a reporter to gather news.
  
• Body: Part of a story that follows the lead.
  
• Box: Matter enclosed in a border to make a box. Many modern boxes have only top and bottom borders.
  
• Bleed: When an illustration of photograph runs into the edge of the page.
  Instruction given to the printer to follow this direction.
  
• Blurb: Publicity material.
  
• Break: As in news break, when something news happens.
  
• Byline: signature on a story, which tells who it by is
  
• Caps: Capital letters
  
• Caption: Descriptive material accompanying pictures and photographs.
  
• Center spread: The two pages in the center fold of a newspaper.
  
• Censorship: Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression. The visible motive of censorship is often to stabilize or improve the society that the government would have control over.
  
• Circulation: The number of copies distributed, either on an average day or on particular days (typically Sunday), is called the newspaper’s circulation and is one of the principal factors used to set the advertising rates.
  
• Copy: Universally known as the term for material written by journalists.
  
• Copydesk: Where copy is edited, cut and headlined.
  
• Copy editors: sub editors.
  
• Correspondent: A reporter who is out of town on duty, who corresponds with his head office.
  
• Cover: As in covering an event, that is, reporting it in full.
  
• Credit line: To name the source of a picture, illustration, photograph; giving credit to the person responsible.
  
• Crop: cutting out non- essential parts of a photograph to sharpen the visual impact.
  
• Cub: An untrained newsman, a beginner, usually a reporter.
  
• Cut: An engraving; also removing portions of copy in order to tighten it.
  
• Date line: The place from which a news story is sent and the date, as in India, Hyderabad, August 15.
  
• D/c: Double column.
  
• Deadline: The last minute to ready copy for an edition. Closing time.
  
• Drop: Used to indicate that a letter should be in larger type; it is the first letter in the first paragraph of a story and is set thus for purposes of effective display.
  
• Dummy: A Drawing usually freehand, outlining the position of news stories and cuts on a page, along with advertisements and illustrations.
  
• Ears: Boxes on either side of the nameplate on page 1 of a newspaper that usually carry advertisements in India. In the west, they may carry the day’s weather and the name of the edition.
  
• Edition: Remake or revision of some of the pages of a newspaper.
  
• Editorial: The editor’s opinion or comment on the event.
  
• Em: A measurement of column width based on the square of M in type usually 12 points.
  
• En: Half an Em also called a nut in United States to avoid phonetic confusion.
  
• Exclusive: A story that no other newspaper has for that day; a scoop.
  
• Filler: Small items used to fill out columns where needed & where copy cannot be leaded out.
  
• Flush: Set copy without Para indenting
  
• Flash: A rarely used massage of a few words describing a momentous event. It consists mostly of the place of filing, less than half a dozen words of text , the signature of the sender and the time sent.
  
• Fold: Line at which newspaper is folded.
  
• Follow up: Further developments in story .To cheese details of an earlier report.
  
• Feature: A story of interest beyond & more than the news. Also to give special prominence to a story.
  
• Font: Type of one size & style.
  
• Galley: Narrow & shallow tray of metal in which set matter is put in column width.
  
• Galley proofs: Proof of set matter put in galley.
  
• H.O.: Short for Hold Over or Hold for release reference to type set copy that could be used later.
  
• Human interests: Story about human or emotional appeal, but not necessarily hard news.
  
• Jump: Continuation of a story to another page.
  
• Jump line: The continuation line giving the succeeding or preceding page numbers.
  
• Kill: Elimination of news material at any stage in the processing .when used the instruction is mandatory.
  
• Layout: Arrangement of illusion a page plan.
  
• Lead: Beginning of a story, which may be a sentence, paragraphs or several paragraphs depending on the complications involved also, the main story on page one.
  
• Lino: Lino –type; a machine for setting type.
  
• Leader: Editorial.
  
• Libel: Any defamatory statement expressed in writing, printing or other visible form.
  
• Logo type: Also called a logo, usually by printers. A single matrix containing two or more letters used together such as AP, UPI. It is also another name for the flag, name plate.
  
• Make up: Assembly the newspaper in the composing room, art of putting set copy to make page artistically & effectively.
  
• Masthead: Statement, usually on the editorial page giving information on the newspaper‘s ownership, place of publication etc. Sometimes confused with the name plate.
  
• Monos: Monotype. A machine for cutting type.
  
• Obit: Short for Obituary. An announcement of a death with biographical details appropriate in length to the news importance of the subject.
  
• Pica: 12 points type, also a lineal measurement of 12 points. Also called an Em.
  
• Pix: Picture
  
• Point: Basic printing measurement, roughly equivalent to one seventy second of an inch. 72 point type roughly measures an inch in height.
  
• Proof readers: One who reads proofs to make corrections in setting and sends it back for revision.
  
• Quotes: Quotation marks. What has been said by individual in his own words.
  
• Rewrite man: A writer (usually a sub) for a newspaper or agency whose work consist in part of re-doing stories and in part of writing original copy for the reporters who turn in notes by telephone.
  
• Retainer: Amount paid to retain use of correspondent who may not necessarily be filling copy all the time.
  
• Run: A reporter’s beat.
  
• Round-up: A comprehensive story which may combine reports on the same subject from several sources.
  
• S/C: Single Column.
  
• Schedule: List of assignments.
  
• Scoop: An exclusive story for a newspaper for which a reporter lives laborious life.
  
• Slug: Each story has a name, which is called a slug. The slug must be include with each page number. A story on President Carter-1 Carter-2 ect. Until the last page is marked Carter-last.
  
• Stringer: Correspondent of a newspaper who is not on the regular payroll but paid for copy used.
  
• Syndicate: An organization that sells articles and features on behalf of a writer. An agency.
  
• Tailpiece: Usually paragraph with finishing touches, a joke at the end, something added on to enliven a column.
  
• Tip: A small bit of information that could lead to a news story.
  
• Type book: A book showing various families of type which a press has for use.
• Yellow journalism: Publication specializing in stories that are sensational or grossly exaggerated and dealing generally with sex, crime and gossip.