glossary of editing terms
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Glossary of editing terms
Writing for journalists - Wynford
Hicks, Sally Adams, Harriet Gilbert,Tim Holmes
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Audit Bureau of Circulations: source of independentlyverified circulations
Advance: text of speech/ statement issued tojournalists beforehand
Advertorial: advertisement presented as editorial Agencies: news agencies
Agony column: advice column, agony aunt
Ampersand: & symbol
Angle: particular approach to story Attribution: identifying the journalists source of
information o quote
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Back issue: previous issue of publication
Backgrounder: explanatory feature to accompany anews story
Banner (headline): headline that runs across front page Beat: American word for special area / topic covered by
reporter
Bleed: (of an image) go beyond the type area to the
edge of a page Blow up: enlarge part of photograph
Broadsheet: large-format newspaper
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Blurb: displayed material promoting contents of
another page or future issue
Body copy: main text of story
Body type: main typeface in which a story is set
Bold: thick black type, used for emphasis
Box: copy enlcosed with rules to give it emphasis
/ separate it from main text
Brief: short news item
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Bureau: news office in foreign country
Byline: writers name as it appears in print at
the beginning of story
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Caption: text relating the photo to a story,caption story: extension of caption into stand-alone story
Crop: cut a photograph for better effect
Centre spread: middle opening of a tabloid ormagazine
Character: unit of measurement for typeincluding letters, figures, punctuation marks andspaces
Chequebook journalism: paying large sums to dostories
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Chief sub: senior sub editor in charge ofothers
City desk: financial section of British national
newspaper. US: covers home news, as in India Classified advertising: small ads classified by
subject matter, grouped in separate section
Clippings/ clips: american term for cuttings
Cuttings: stories cut out from newspapers andfiled electronically under subject
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Close quotes: end of section in direct quotes
CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, K black
Colour piece: news story written as feature with
emphasis on journalists reactions Colour separation: method by which the 4
process colours CMYK are separated from acolour original
Column: standard vertical division of a page;regular feature by a encouraged to beopinionated or entertaining
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Contact sheet: photographers sheet of smallprints
Copy: text of a story
Copy taster: Copyright: the right to reproduce original
material
Correction: published statement correcting errors
in copy Credit (line): name of photographer as it appears
in print next to their work
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Cross-head: line or lines, taken from text, set
bigger and bolder than the body type and
inserted between paragraphs to liven up page
Cut: shorten or delete copy
Cut-out: illustration with background masked,
painted or cut to make it stand out on the
page
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Dateline: place from which copy is filed
Deadline: time a story is due
Deck: originally one of a series of headlines
stacked on top of each other; now used to meanone line of a headline
Delayed drop: device in news story of delayingimp facts for effect
Descender: the part of a lower-case letter (ex: j,p) that sticks out below the x-height in a type face
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Desk: news paper department
Deskman: American term for male sub
Diary: list of news events to be covered Diary column: gossip column
Display ads: ordinary
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Edition: version of newspaper printed for
particular geographical area or time
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F
Freelance/ freelancer: a self-employed
journalist who sells material to various news
organisations
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Imprint: name and address of printer and
publisher
Mug shot: photograph showing the head and
sometimes shoulders of a person
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Lead story: main story on page
Leader: editorial
Listings: lists of entertainment and otherevents with basic details- cinema and tv
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Nibs: news in brief
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Peg/ news peg: reason for publishing a story
at a particular time
Press release: written announcement or
promotional material by an organization to
the media
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Stet: ignore deletion or correction (Latin for
let it stand)
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White space: are on page with no type or
illustration