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A ________ is a company or person engaged in publishing periodicals, books, music, etc.
 
Publisher
 
Editor
 
Producer
A __________ is a freelance photographer who specializes in candid camera shots of famous people and often invades their privacy to obtain such photographs.
 
Paparazzo
 
Publicist
 
Reporter
An _________ is a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical; a person who edits written material for publication.
 
Editor
 
Reporter
 
Paparazzo
A ___________ is a journalist who writes a regular feature in a newspaper. A feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person.
 
Columnist
 
Anchor
 
Producer
A __________ is a reporter, especially one who reports from a particular place or about a particular subject.
 
Correspondent
 
Producer
 
Reporter
A _________ is a person who publicizes something, especially a press or publicity agent; a journalist.
 
Publicist
 
Paparazzo
 
Publisher
An ________, also called a presenter, (in broadcasting) is a person in a central studio who links up and maintains contact with various outside camera units, reporters, etc
 
Anchor
 
Editor
 
Publisher
A _________ is the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme.
 
Producer
 
Correspondant
 
Anchor
A _________ is a person who reports, especially one employed to gather news for a newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization.
 
Reporter
 
Columnist
 
Producer
__________ is the practice of securing exclusive rights to material for newspaper stories by paying a high price for it, regardless of any moral implications such as paying people to boast of criminal or morally reprehensible act
 
Chequebook journalism
 
Pose a question
 
Circulation figures
A _________ is a newspaper which has a large format (approximately 38 X 61 centimetres).
 
Broadsheet
 
Tabloid
 
Spin
A ________ is a newspaper, usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style.
 
Tabloid
 
Ratings
 
Popular press
A _________ is a person, book, organization, etc, that provides information for a news story or for a piece of research.
 
Source
 
Tabloid
 
Viewing figures
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
 
Scoop
 
Circulation figures
_______ (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.
 
Ratings
 
Broadsheet
 
Pose a question
The ________ refers to the cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press.
 
Popular press
 
Media coverage
 
Deadline
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.
 
Privacy
 
Off the record
 
Speculation
If something that you say is_________, it is not official and not intended to be published or made known.
 
Off the record
 
Privacy
 
Libel laws
A _________ is an exclusive newspaper story (i.e. a story that is published only in that particular paper)
 
Scoop
 
Source
 
Soundbite
_________ protect people from _____ which is something written in a book or newspaper which wrongly damages somebody’s reputation.
 
Libel laws / libel
 
Privacy
 
Spin
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.
 
Spin
 
Bias
 
Speculation
_________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported in the media.
 
Media coverage
 
Popular press
 
Libel laws
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
 
Soundbite
 
Chequebook journalism
 
Off the record
________ refers to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.
 
Circulation figures
 
Viewing figures
 
Pose a question
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
 
Off the record
 
Popular press
A ________ is a time limit for any activity.
 
Deadline
 
Privacy
 
Source
_________ is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; a guess, supposition, hypothesis, opinion, view.
 
Speculation
 
Scoop
 
Tabloid
If people _________ or an idea, they ask or state that question or idea.
 
Pose a question
 
Speculation
 
Broadsheet
_______ are the number of people watching a television programme.
 
Viewing figures
 
Media coverage
 
Ratings/rating wars
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