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    Glossary Entries

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    Angle This is the way you approach a story; the journalist’s way of presenting the information. You will usually choose an angle, which is usually the main news in the story, the one thing you want to present to the reader first.        
    Attribution The name of a source in a story and their title or role.        
    Backgrounder Often used in broadcast journalism; it is a background story that provides context and history.        
    Beat The specialised category that some journalists cover, such as health or motoring. Like journalistic genres, if your beat is health, your genre is health journalism.        
    By-line This is the name of the journalist(s) writing the story. It usually appears at the top of a story.        
    Body copy The text of the story; the contents.        
    Caption A short passage written to accompany an image or a photograph, which comments on the picture. A caption often includes the photo credits.        
    Close-up Used in broadcasting or when taking pictures to refer to a nearby shot of someone’s face.        
    Crop To cut the parts of a picture that are not necessary, for example, trees next to a profile picture of a person that do not add value to the picture.        
    Cut To shorten a story or audio-visual story by removing words or content.        
    Dateline The name of the place where the story was written; this is not the date.        
    Embargo A restriction on the time of publication. Sometimes, organisations may issue press releases with interesting information, but there might be an embargo so that all news media are forced to publish the news at the same time.        
    Fact box or numbers box A summary is placed next to the article in the layout. It provides the basic information of the article, such as names and key figures, in an easily readable format.        
    Feature A human-interest story, or a news story that investigates aspects of the story in more detail than just a straightforward news story.        
    Feed A live transmission, such as a live sports transmission from a stadium.        
    Hard news News that is important and current; happening now.        
    Headline The title of the article that summarises the essential information from the article and grabs the reader’s attention. In an article, there can be multiple sub- headlines. Writing headlines is often done by the sub-editor.        
    Introduction The lead or core of the article. The aim of the introduction is to make the reader read the article to the end. The lead is usually the first one or two sentences of the text. It is usually shortened to “intro”.        
    Kill Sometimes, an editor or news editor will “kill” a story. It means what it says, that is the end of the story – it will not be published.        
    Lead The main story on a page; the most important story. Also, the main story in a broadcast bulletin, the first story to be heard or seen. Also sometimes used to refer to the intro of a story (see above).        
    Lead-in Used in broadcasting; the introductory words at the start of a video or an audio clip.        
    Masthead At the top a newspaper or a news website – the name of the publication, the date, and (for print) the issue number.        
    Off the record When sources provide you with information, but this is merely as background, and you cannot name the source.        
    On the record When sources speak to you with a clear understanding that everything they say can be used in your news report.        
    Picture credit The name of the photographer who took the picture with your story. Usually appears next to or below the picture.        
    Podcast A form of digital media, usually an audio file that is created in the form of a radio show, monologue, or interview.        
    Press release Publicity hand-outs presented to news organisations for possible publication. You need to rewrite press releases to make them news stories.        
    Pull quote A quoted passage from the text, which is enlarged and highlighted in the layout phase. Pull quotes make the body text lighter and more visually appealing. They can also be used to highlight the most interesting parts of the text.        
    SEO Search engine optimisation – to ensure that a story can be found by search engines, like Google Chrome or Firefox, when people type keywords into the search bar.        
    Slug The name given to a story in the newsroom.        
    Source People, documents, or other material (such as other news articles) that provide one with information for the story.        
    Tags Words that are added to a story’s tag editor to help with SEO. These words should be similar to the headline of the story and should help people find the story by searching for it.        
    Voice-over A production technique that superimposes a narrating voice over visual narration. Voice-overs are commonly used in news and film production.        
    Zoom Close-up focus when taking pictures or making videos.