| A | B |
|---|
| Assignment | Instruction to a reporter to cover an event |
| Beat | Area assigned to a report for regular coverage |
| Byline | name of reporter who wrote the story, placed atop the published article |
| Correspondent | reporter who sends news from outside a newspaper office |
| Cutline | any descriptive or explanatory material under a picture |
| Dateline | name of city or town and sometimes the date at the start of a story that is not of local orgin |
| Feature | a news story or orher material diffrentiated from strait news |
| Flag | printed title of newspaper on page one |
| Investigation reporting | technique used to unearth information that sources often want hidden |
| Jump | continuation from one page to the another |
| Kill | to delete a sectionfrom copy or discard the entire story |
| Libel | injury to reputation. words, pictures and cartoons that expose a person to public hatred,shame, disgrace, or ridicule, or induce an ill opion of a person are libelous |
| Lead | first paragraph in news story |
| Morgue | newspaper library |
| op-ed | abbreviation for page opposite the editorial page |
| slant | to write a story so as to influence the reader's thinking |
| Source | Person, record, document, or event that provides the information for a story |
| Wire service | Synonym for press association, THe Associated Press and United Press International |
