Journalism Glossary
Communications Program Glossary.
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- assignment
- noun
- A task or piece of work assigned to someone as part of a job or course of study.
- Example: A reporting assignment.
- fr: affectation
- bright
- noun
- Short, amusing story.
- Example: I am writing a bright.
- fr: nouvelle
- caption
- noun
- A title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster.
- Example: There are huge posters everywhere showing the image of a face, with the CAPTION.
- fr: légende
- copy
- noun
- A single specimen of a particular book, record, or other publication or issue.
- Example: Publish on each COPY an appropriate copyright notice' and under section.
- fr: copie
- tabloid
- noun
- A newspaper having pages half the size of those of a standard newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs, and sensational stories.
- Example: Articles from both TABLOID and broadsheet newspapers will make up two small Corpora which will then be analysed independently in order to draw a comparison between the two genres.
- fr: tabloïde
- teleprompter
- noun
- A device used to project a speaker's script onto a transparent panel in front of a television camera lens in such a way that the text remains hidden from the camera.
- Example: He did not even need to look at his teleprompter to work that out.
- fr: téléprompteur
- lead
- noun
- A lead is an opening paragraph that gives the audience the most important information of the news story in a concise and clear manner, while still maintaining the readers' interest.
- Example: A summary lead is the most common and traditional lead in journalism.
- fr: l'amorce
- headline
- noun
- A heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine.
- Example: For example, one newspaper reported the HEADLINE "A healthy lifestyle might be the death of you" out of the academic debate about the link between cholesterol and cardio-vascular diseases.
- fr: gros titre
- press
- noun
- A printing press.
- Example: International Thomson Business PRESS 'From understanding organic food consumers to the tailored marketing strategy'.
- fr: presse
- deadline
- noun
- The latest time or date by which something should be completed.
- Example: Submission DEADLINE [Tuesday week 9] Present a summary of current perspectives on how the lexicon is organised, i.e. how it is structured.
- fr: date limite
- interview
- noun
- A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation.
- Example: Whilst an over structured INTERVIEW can mean people do not feel free to disclose information.
- fr: entrevue
- quote
- noun
- A quotation from a text or speech.
- Example: The final conclusion reached in the last paragraphs of the chapter can be expressed, as Sakabe says, using Goethe's famous QUOTE "Everything that goes by in this Earthly world in nothing but metaphor ".
- fr: citation
- source
- noun
- A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.
- Example: Monthly rainfall and evapotranspiration data for Goa in Mali SOURCE: FAO, (2003) CLIMWAT database for Africa Figure 4.
- fr: source
- feature
- noun
- A newspaper or magazine article or a broadcast program devoted to the treatment of a particular topic, typically at length.
- Example: A feature on Detroit's downtown fishery.
- fr: article
- editor
- noun
- A person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, particularly a newspaper or magazine.
- Example: The increased involvement of the publishing house in creating the text itself as a marketable, profitable commodity removes the central power of the author and moves towards intertextuality , EDITOR, marketer and so on all involved in 'writing' the text.
- fr: éditeur
- journal
- noun
- A newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or professional activity.
- Example: The Economic JOURNAL .
- fr: journal
- column
- noun
- A vertical division of a page or text.
- Example: Row 3 and COLUMN 4 are now eliminated.
- fr: colonne
- correspondent
- noun
- A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper.
- Example: He is our correspondent from London.
- fr: correspondant
- bulletin
- noun
- A short official statement or broadcast summary of news.
- Example: I flicked through the radio channels in order to catch a news BULLETIN.
- fr: bulletin
- anchor
- noun
- An anchorman or anchorwoman, especially in broadcasting or athletics.
- Example: He signed off after nineteen years as CBS news anchor.
- fr: présentateur