Journalism Vocabulary

Gathering and reporting the news

• Editor

• Journalism

• Writer

• Author

Lead

• opening paragraph of news story

• should contain 4 of the 5Ws

• beginning of written news article

• all are correct

Reliable

• you can believe it

• dependable

• true

• all are correct

Style of writing that uses the 5Ws in the first paragraph

• Lead

• Feature

• Inverted Pyramid Structure

• News Writing

A brief summary of the life of someone who died recently

• Feature

• Lead

• Headline

• Obituary

"Just Do It" is an example of a ---

• slogan

• graphic

• headline

• news article

The official name of the caption under a photo

• caption

• cut-line

• byline

• none are correct

A story that a reporter has access to that no one else has

• exclusive

• inclusive

• byline

• tabloid

Writing an article trying to influence the reader's thinking

• opinion

• slant

• op-ed

• rant

Story that can be published at any time

• B-copy

• Editorial

• Evergreen

• Feature