Unit 7 The Media Vocabulary

A person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or prepares news to be broadcast.

• Editor

• Journalist

• newsreader

A person who regularly writes material for a blog.

• Columnist

• Editor

• Blogger

A set of related web pages located under a single domain name, typically produced by a single person or organization.

• Website

• Magazine

• Newspaper

A television or radio advertisement.

• Reviews

• E-zines

• Commercials

A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.

• Newspaper

• Advertisement

• Articles

A conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication.

• Interview

• Review

• Articles

A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.

• Webpage

• Telegram

• Internet

A television or radio drama serial dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters.

• Soap opera

• Horoscope

• Newspaper

A daily record of news and events of a personal nature; a diary.

• Letter

• Journal

• Magazines

A forecast of a person's future, typically including a delineation of character and circumstances, based on the relative positions of the stars and planets at the time of that person's birth.

• Newsreader

• Weather forecast

• Horoscope