Journalism Vocabulary

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

_______ are the number of people watching a television programme.

_______ (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.

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

A ________ is a time limit for any activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 It is the condition of being private or withdrawn.

__________ 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 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 ________.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.