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Glossary of Journalism and Online Terms attribute - to write the name of source of your information when using a quote, of book, or a part of any copyrighted work. broadcast - communicating near and far using radio and television. byline - your name, which is printed before or after an article. clip - a segment of audio or videotape that's included in a story that is broadcast on radio or television or on the Web. closed question - This type of question doesn't help
a interviewee to open up! Closed questions usually prompt a person
to answer with simple "yes" or "no". But
keep in mind that they can be the right questions to ask at certain
points in an interview. They help you pin down important copy - material for a newspaper or magazine article. beat - To cover a particular genre of journalism. (i.e.Music Journalism or Sports Journalism) cutline - sentences at the bottom of a photo that describe
what happened in it, which usually relate to a story. Also called
a caption. download - to take files from another computer or server for use on your own. draft - Most journalists will write a draft of an article before submitting it. After completing this draft, they will edit their own work for content and mistakes before submitting it to the editor. editor - a person who edits material for publication or broadcast. editing - the process of reviewing a news story, revising the writing and checking it for mistakes before it is published or broadcast. editorial - a newspaper article written by, or on behalf
of, an editor, especially one giving an encoding videos - the process of changing video camera footage into digital footage which can be read and displayed by a computer. (i.e.RealVideo material) "Execution at Dawn" - These are groups of people lined up against the wall to be shot (with a camera of course)! For large groups, cutlines end up being long lists of people from left to right'. FTP - (File Transfer Protocol) This is a program used to upload files and webpages from a personal computer to a server. After an individual creates a website, they must upload (transfer) this page to a server so that it can be viewed by others. feature - A feature takes an in-depth look at what's
going on behind the news. It gets into the lives of people. It
tries to explain why and how a trend developed. Unlike news,
a feature does not have to be tied to a current event or a breaking
story. But it can grow out of something that's grammar - the study of classes and functions of words, how words are said, and how words relate in a sentence. HTML - (Hyper Text Markup Language) HTML is the lingua
franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is
a non-proprietary format, based upon SGML and can be created
and processed in a wide range of tools from simple plain text
editors to sophisticated wysiwyg hyperlinks - The text you find on a Web site which
can be "clicked on" with a mouse which in hypertext -A system of writing and displaying text
that enables the text to be linked in info-bahn - the information super highway (info, as
in information and bahn, as in German for journalist - a person who writes, edits, or reports for a newspaper, magazine or news broadcast. journalism - the business or practice of writing and producing news media. *.jpeg *.gif - These two file extensions are the most common types of picture files. If you were to scan a picture into a computer yourself, you would need to convert the file to one of these formats for use on a webpage. leading questions - These questions try to lead an interviewee in a certain direction. lede (or lead) - the first and most important sentence of the story. It sets up what the story is going to be about. loaded words - words that leave people with a distinct and often negative impression. That can prompt your source to get defensive or to disagree with your question and that won't help you get an answer to your question! neutral questions - A neutral question is straight-forward. It doesn't have your opinion in it. You aren't assuming you know the answer already. Your question is clear and gets right to the point. In return, you will probably get an informative answer. off the record - this is what people say when they
want the information they tell you to be on the record - the opposite of "off the record". This means that you are allowed to use the person's name and quotes for your story. online journalism - stories that are written specifically for the Web instead of newspaper, radio, television or magazine. It can include the use of text, photos, graphics, hypertext, audio and video to tell stories. open-ended questions - these questions encourage the person to talk and share their thoughts and feelings on a subject. It allows them to tell their own story without much prompting from the reporter. pack journalism - this refers to large groups of reporters
from different newspapers or photographs "Grip and Grin" - These are photos
of people receiving awards or diplomas, publish - to produce or release a written work for the public to see or hear. Real Video - The format of video files displayed on most Internet sites, such as SNN. scrum - The gathering of reporters around a person who is important to a particular story. When a scrum occurs, all the reporters shout questions to the person in an attempt to further their own story. This situation is much more informal then a Press Conference. search engine - a program used by an Internet browser
to look for specific words and sort them server - A computer in a network shared by multiple
users. The term may refer to both source - a person, written article, book, song, video, or film that you get information from. syntax - the way that words are put together to make sentences. upload - to transfer files from your computer to another computer or server. web cast - a video or audio broadcast that's transmitted over the World Wide Web. Wire - A source of information for Journalists. You may have heard a reporter say that they got their information "off the wire". The wire itself is an up-to-the-minute source of information for other reporters. wrap-up questions - help you make sure you have all the information you need. You can ask your source questions like this to end the interview and clarify information he has given you during the course of your conversation. |
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