| A | B |
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| REPORTER | a person who gathers and reports news for a news organization |
| OPINION | a person’s thoughts about a particular subject; a subjective point of view |
| OBJECTIVE | not affected by personal feelings or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased |
| OMBUDSMAN / PUBLIC EDITOR | a neutral individual employed by a news organization to receive, investigate, report on and (in some instances) resolve reader or viewer complaints against a news organization |
| LIBEL | a lie that causes damage (misrepresents damagingly) |
| PLAGIARIZE | to put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another |
| BIAS | when an editor or reporter expresses a personal point of view in a news article or in a series of articles |
| ARTICLE | a story based on the facts |
| SLANDER | a false report maliciously uttered and tending to injure the reputation of a person |
| THE MEDIA | all the means of mass communication (newspapers, TV, radio, websites, magazines) |
| INTEGRITY | soundness or moral character; honesty |
| EDITORIAL | article written by the editor giving his opinion on a problem or event |
| NEWS SERVICES | news companies that have their own reporters. They sell their articles to the media. Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI) and Reuters are the top three news services used in the U.S. |
| SUBJECTIVE | based on personal feelings |
| COLUMNIST | a person who writes a regular (daily or weekly) article for a newspaper or magazine |
| FRONT PAGE | the first page of a paper, usually carrying the most important story |
| THE PRESS | all the media and agencies that print, broadcast, or gather and transmit news |
| EDITOR | the head of a news organization; person who chooses the articles that will be printed each day |
| SOURCE | someone who gives a reporter information; a supplier of information |
| FREELANCE | independent report, submitted by a separate party who works for different companies at different times rather than one who is permanently employed by one company |
| CORRESPONDENT | a person employed by a news organization to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, etc., regularly from a distant place |
| COLUMN | a regular article or feature in a newspaper or magazine |
| EYEWITNESS | a person who sees an occurrence with his own eyes and is able to give a firsthand account of it |
| CREDIBLE | believable; worthy of belief or confidence; trustworthy |
| CAPTION | a sentence or phrase under a picture to identify or describe the picture |
| HEADLINE | title of any newspaper article |
| FEATURE | a special or regular article, usually displayed prominently |
| NEWS | a report of a recent event; what is reported about a recent event or events |
| JOURNALIST | a person who writes articles for a news organization |
