Journalism Vocab 2:
- HAMMER A form of headline consisting of a few very large words over a smaller subheadline
- HEADLINE Large type designed to summarize a story and grab the reader’s attention
- HUMAN INTEREST An element of news that includes people or events with which the audience can identify; stories that are just interesting
- BY-LINE Indicates who wrote the story; often includes the writer’s title
- KICKER A short (one or two word) statement at the beginning of a caption that serves to grab the reader’s attention
- LEAD The beginning of the story which serves to summarize the story and/or grab the reader’s attention
- LIBEL Written defamation; damaging false statements against another person or institution that are in writing or are spoken from a written script
- QUOTATION A statement made by another person included in a published story. A direct quotation is exactly what the person said and appears inside quotation marks. An indirect quote is a paraphrase of what a person said and does not appear in quotes.
- REVIEW A form of editorial written to comment on a play, movie, piece of music or some other creative work
- SLANDER Spoken defamation; damaging false statements against another person or institution that are spoken