Journalism News Reporting Vocabulary

When a journalist deeply investigates a single topic of interest, often involving crime, this is called...

• investigative journalism

• yellow journalism

• papparazzi journalism

When a journalist publishes a news story before anyone else hears about it, it is called a...

• source

• leak

• scoop

If someone doesn't want you to publish information about them, they might take out an ______ to stop you.

• scoop

• injunction

• investigative

• leak

Exposing unethical or illegal actions by an organisation is called...

• whistle-blowing

• investigative journalism

• blow

• yellow press

Information which, if disclosed by unauthorised people, could cause problems for a company or government, etc., is called ...

• exclusive information

• secretive information

• sensitive information

Someone who provides information to journalists so they can write the story is a ...

• provider

• source

• scoop

The release of protected information to the public without permission is called a...

• leak

• filter

• truth

An expression which means that in the end the truth will always be discovered is: the truth...

• will free

• will come

• out