| A | B |
| Assignment | a particular job or story given to a reporter |
| banner | a headline spanning the width of a newspaper page |
| beat | a type of story regularly covered by a reporter |
| bias | a prejudice that prevents a person from being impartial or that influences in an unfair way |
| break | to make known |
| byline | a line at the head of an article, carrying the writer's name |
| caption | a short explanation or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph |
| circulation | a publication's distribution number and range |
| citizen journalism | news and comments reported by non-professional journalists |
| consumer magazines | magazines geared to specific audiences and target markets |
| convergence | the ability of a computer to access, produce, and transmit a variety of media rather than each medium existing separately |
| copy | written material that is to be set in type |