News Story Vocabulary

Lauren B.
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  1. active voice
    when the subject of a sentence performs the action
  2. ancillary
    furnishing added support
  3. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  4. by-line
    a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article
  5. direct quotation
    a report of the exact words used in a discourse
  6. filler
    anything added to fill out a whole
  7. headline
    the title or caption of a newspaper article
  8. illustration
    a visual representation to make a subject easy to understand
  9. interviewee
    a person who is interviewed
  10. interviewer
    a person who conducts an interview
  11. journalism
    the profession of reporting or editing news stories
  12. journalist
    a person who writes or broadcasts news stories
  13. journalist's privilege
    the right of a journalist to refuse to divulge sources of confidential information
  14. lede
    the attention-grabbing introductory section of a news story
  15. mass medium
    a technology that publicly transmits to a large audience
  16. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
  17. primary
    of first rank or importance or value
  18. profile
    an outline of something, especially a face from the side
  19. transition
    the act of passing from one state or place to the next
  20. typo
    a mistake in printed matter
  21. yellow journalism
    sensationalist reporting or headlines
  22. newsworthy
    sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper
  23. newsy
    full of news
Created on Sun Sep 04 10:18:31 EDT 2011 (updated Sun Sep 04 10:58:02 EDT 2011)

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