glossary of editing terms

8/13/2019 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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B

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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B

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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B

Bureau: news office in foreign country

Byline: writers name as it appears in print at

the beginning of story


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C

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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C

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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C

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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C

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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C

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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I

Imprint: name and address of printer and

publisher

Mug shot: photograph showing the head and

sometimes shoulders of a person


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L

Lead story: main story on page

Leader: editorial

Listings: lists of entertainment and otherevents with basic details- cinema and tv


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N

Nibs: news in brief


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P

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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S

Stet: ignore deletion or correction (Latin for

let it stand)


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White space: are on page with no type or

illustration

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