Journalism Vocabulary

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

A _________ is a newspaper which has a large format (approximately 38 X 61 centimetres).

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.

_______ (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.

A __________ is a reporter, especially one who reports from a particular place or about a particular subject.

_______ are the number of people watching a television programme.

A _________ is a person, book, organization, etc, that provides information for a news story or for a piece of research.

A _________ is an exclusive newspaper story (i.e. a story that is published only in that particular paper)

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.

_________ is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; a guess, supposition, hypothesis, opinion, view.

If people _________ or an idea, they ask or state that question or idea.

__________ 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

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.

A __________ is a freelance photographer who specializes in candid camera shots of famous people and often invades their privacy to obtain such photographs.

A _________ is a person who publicizes something, especially a press or publicity agent; a journalist.

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 It is the condition of being private or withdrawn.

If something that you say is_________, it is not official and not intended to be published or made known.

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.

_________ is the extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported in the media.

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 ________.

A ________ is a time limit for any activity.

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

A _________ is a person who reports, especially one employed to gather news for a newspaper, news agency, or broadcasting organization.

The ________ refers to the cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press.

A _________ is the person who takes overall administrative responsibility for a film or television programme.

A ________ is a newspaper, usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style.

A ________ is a company or person engaged in publishing periodicals, books, music, etc.

_________ protect people from _____ which is something written in a book or newspaper which wrongly damages somebody’s reputation.

________ refers to the distribution of newspapers, magazines; the number of copies of an issue of such a publication that is distributed.