Sometimes these things are common knowledge and some aren't so common.
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A
Advertorial:
looks like an article/feature/show segment but it's a paid advertisement.
Affiliate: A local
station that subscribes to the services and programs of a network. Ex. ABC,
NBC, CBS.
Anchors:
newscasters who host news broadcasts.
Angle/Slant:
particular emphasis of a media presentation, sometimes called a slant
AP Wire: Associated Press news service that supplies
international, national and regional information and stories. These are almost
always rewritten before airing.
Articles: stories written
about news topics that are considered notable by the editors of a publication.
Attribution: credit given to who
said what or the source of facts
B
Back
timing:
A convenient way of counting down the length of a newscast. This tells you when
each story must run in order for
your newscast to end on time.
Beats:
specific
public institutions or areas of concern for which specific reporters in a
newsroom are responsible
watching. (e.g.: county reporter, health reporter, education reporter, courts
reporter)
Beat
Checks:
Using a telephone to search for and tape news stories from a list of
agencies. A good beat check would
be comprised of the sheriff's offices, fire department, local police, state
highway patrol, DNR, local hospitals, and other government agencies that
routinely handle breaking stories.
Break:
place
designated within broadcast programming during which commercials run.
Bumpers: small teases that come at
the end of one newscast segment often previewing what is coming up in the rest
of the newscast.
B-roll: video images shot
specifically to be used over a reporter's words to illustrate the news event or
story, to cover up audio edits.
Broadcast feature: Broadcast
news story that gives reporters 5-25 minutes to develop a deeper look at a news
event, trend, or individual.
By-line: the name of the
reporter, usually in newspapers/magazine article. Also for websites.
C
Call Letters: A station's
legal ID (for example, WBIZ-EAU CLAIRE) is a legal ID.
Citizen
journalist: the rapid rise of Internet
technology, in particular blogging, tweeting and social networking, have
empowered persons without professional training to function sometimes as
journalists feeding information to mass media. These practitioners now are
known as a distinct category -- citizen journalists.
Cold
Copy:
Rip-n-Read - A script not seen by an announcer until the moment s/he reads it.
Column:
an article in which a writer or columnist gives an opinion on a topic
Consultants: firms,
groups, individuals hired by broadcast organizations to give advice on
presentation, content, trends, viewer habits and preferences
Control
Room:
Where the technical equipment for putting a newscast on the air is kept and
operated.
Copy:
any written material intended for publication, including advertising
Copyreader:
the person who "proofreads" copy as it comes in.
Cue: usually a
physical signal indicting anchor/reporter to perform a task (start reading,
wrap up, go to break).
Cue
Up
- Putting a video/sound material back to its beginning.
D
Deck:
a smaller headline, which comes between the headline and the story.
Dub:
to make a recording of a recording.
Editor:
the person who "edits" a story by revising and polishing; the person
whose job is to approve copy when it comes in and to make decisions about what
is published in a newspaper or magazine. Also editor is the person that puts
together the reporters package to go on air for broadcast. See Package.
E
Editorial:
an article expressing a newspaper or magazine owner's or editor's position on
an issue.
F
Feature
articles: longer forms of news writing; topics
covered in depth; sometimes the main article on the front page of a newspaper,
or the cover story in a magazine.
Feed: A live or
recorded report, or a set of recorded reports sent to a station/newsroom via
satellite, phone, or other device for inclusion in a news program.
G
Gatekeepers:
people who determine what will be printed, broadcast, produced, or consumed in
the mass media.
Gutter:
narrow margin of white space in the center area in a magazine, newspaper, or
book, where two pages meet.
H
“Happy Talk”: the casual banter that goes on between news anchors
and other “on-air” people.
Hard
news: immediate factual accounts of
important events.
Headline:
the "title" of a newspaper or magazine story.
Human
interest story: a story that focuses on the
human side of news and often appeals to the readers' emotion.
I
Inverted
pyramid: the structure of a news story which
places the important facts at the beginning and less important facts and
details at the end.
J
Jump
line: line of type at the bottom of a
column which directs the reader to somewhere else in the paper where the story
is completed, allowing more space for stories to begin on the front page
K
Kicker:
(Newspaper) an ending that finishes a story with a climax, surprise, or punch
line. (Television) An offbeat or humorous story that typically is used
to mark the end of the news segment and the beginning of the sports/weather
segment. The kicker can also be
used to end a newscast.
L
Layout
editor: (newspaper) the person who begins the
layout plan, considering things like placement and amount of space allotted to
news and advertising copy, graphics, photos, and symbols
Lead:
first
line/paragraph of body of story that summarizes/indicates most important
information.
Lead-in:
broadcast
term for beginning part of story news anchor reads introducing the story and/or
person-reporting story.
Lead story
(aka Lead): first story in a newscast or segment (in broadcasting) or a
story that is above the fold in print-this considered the most important news
story of the day.
M
Masthead:
information about a newspaper or magazine on its editorial page; sometimes the
banner at the top of the front page which identifies the newspaper and the date
of publication
Morgue:
newsroom library
N
Nameplate:
The title of a newspaper, newsletter or magazine on the front page or cover in
the periodical's logotype style, often including the publication date and place
of publication.
Natural
Sound aka Nat Sound, Nat S-O-T, or Ambient Sound: Background voices,
music, machinery, waterfalls, and other environmental sounds that are recorded
on-scene and used to create a sound bed for a recorded or live report. Primarily used for setting a mood or
providing atmosphere for a report.
Nielsen:
service
primarily used in determining television ratings.
L
Live shot/Live
Report: A TV news story during which a news anchor
or reporter is live at a remote location. Within this report can be included a
SOT, VO/SOT or PKG.
O
Outcue: usually the
last thing a reporter says in either a live or recorded news story (i.e. PKG)
indicating the piece is ending. (Example: “FOR UPDATE NEWS, I’M BILL SMITH.”)
Outro: usually the
“Goodbye” or end segment of a newscast often during which news/wx/sports
anchors engage in “happy talk.”
P
Package
(PKG): a completed television news story on
tape, which is edited before a news show goes on air and contains reporter's
stand-ups, narration over images, and an out-cue for the anchor to start
speaking at the end of the tape. Usually about 90 seconds.
Pronouncer: Phonetic
spelling of a difficult word or name (i.e. Greg Louganis = Greg loo-GAY-nuss).
P-S-A - aka Public
Service Announcement - An advertisement for a not- for-profit organization.
R
Ratings:
measuring
units used to tell broadcasters how many households and/or viewers have their stations/programs
on at a particular time.
Reader: A story read
by anchor without any audio/video.
Reporters:
the people who gather facts for the stories they are assigned to write
Rundown
-aka; Lineup: A chronological outline or order of stories or segments to
be used in a newscast. This is the
producer's blueprint for the newscast.
Running
Time:
Refers either to the estimated time or the actual time of a newscast.
S
Soft
news: journalistic news stories that are
interesting, but of less immediacy than hard news.
Sound
bite (SOT): the videotaped quote in television
news
Source:
a person who talks to a reporter on the record, for attribution in a news story
Spin:
hidden slant of a press source, which usually casts the client in a positive
light
Stand-up:
a reporter's appearance in a TV news story; usually a head and shoulders shot
which features the reporter talking into a microphone at the scene of the news
event, often used as a transition, or at the beginning or ending
Story
Tag: Closing
to a story package, live shot, or on-set piece usually read by the story report
but can also be read by an anchor.
Super/Chyron:
a video effect that allows the television station to print and superimpose the
name of a news source over his or her image when the source is shown talking in
a news story
V
Voiceover
(VO):
A TV news story during which a news anchor or reporter reads a script live as
video is played.
W
Wire
services: news gathering and delivery services
that provide news from around the world to publications that subscribe for a
fee. Best known are the Associated Press, Reuters, United Press International,
Agence France-Presse and Canadian Press. Wire services are co-operatives that
share news stories among members.
You can find all these terms down here as well. There are more that I just didn't add to this blog.
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