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Journalism Vocabulary

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    Journalism Vocabulary
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  • _______ are the number of people watching a television programme.
    Ratings/rating wars
    Media coverage
    Viewing figures
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  • If people _________ or an idea, they ask or state that question or idea.
    Pose a question
    Speculation
    Broadsheet
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  • _________ is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; a guess, supposition, hypothesis, opinion, view.
    Speculation
    Scoop
    Tabloid
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  • A ________ is a time limit for any activity.
    Privacy
    Source
    Deadline
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  • A ________ is a tendency to show prejudice against one group and favouritism towards another or to be influenced so much by something that you do not judge things fairly.
    Bias
    Popular press
    Off the record
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  • ________ refers to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.
    Pose a question
    Viewing figures
    Circulation figures
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  • A ________ is a brief excerpt from a text or performance that is meant to capture the interest and attention of an audience; a short sentence or phrase, usually from a politician's
    Chequebook journalism
    Off the record
    Soundbite
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  • _________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported in the media.
    Libel laws
    Popular press
    Media coverage
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  • To ________ means to provide an interpretation of (a statement or event, for example), especially in a way meant to sway public opinion; to draw out and twist (fibers) into thread.
    Bias
    Spin
    Speculation
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  • _________ protect people from _____ which is something written in a book or newspaper which wrongly damages somebody’s reputation.
    Libel laws / libel
    Privacy
    Spin
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  • A _________ is an exclusive newspaper story (i.e. a story that is published only in that particular paper)
    Scoop
    Soundbite
    Source
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  • If something that you say is_________, it is not official and not intended to be published or made known.
    Privacy
    Off the record
    Libel laws
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  • If you have ________, you are alone or can be alone so that you can do things without other people seeing you or disturbing you. It is the condition of being private or withdrawn.
    Speculation
    Off the record
    Privacy
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  • The ________ refers to the cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press.
    Media coverage
    Popular press
    Deadline
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  • _______ (statistics) are lists giving the number of people who watched each television programme during the week so that the most popular and least popular programmes are known.
    Broadsheet
    Pose a question
    Ratings
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  • A situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival is known as a ________.
    Ratings war
    Circulation figures
    Scoop
  •  10