The Newsroom
The departments who work on pictures and graphics for the paper.
What is the Photo and Graphics Department?
The consequences that are felt by the reader
What is the impact?
The length articles should shoot to be in order to accommodate the modern schedule
What is short?
The header on a paper that never changes
What is the flag?
The people who collect information for a story
What are reporters?
How close an audience is spacially to a story
What is proximity?
Voluntary response letters, emails, or calls given out by a newsroom to understand what and who is reading
What are surveys?
A story that is killed by an editor
What is a spiked story?
Has the "final say" in what goes out as the paper
What is the Publisher?
How recent a story is
What is the immediacy?
The feeling a reader has that makes them feel the story has a specific tie to them
What is a personal connection?
The newsroom lingo used for a story that is too long
What is a goat-choker?
Department responsible for opinion-based columns
What is the Editorial Board?
When the story is a new or abstract concept
What is a novelty?
A technique where a computer tracks a reader's eyes on the page to see what they are reading
What is monitoring?
Extra info put in by a copy editor that follows the title of the story
What is the deck?
The name for a specific story genre a reporter covers
What is a beat?
When a person who is well known or famous is apart of the story
What is Prominence?
A technique used to see what is being read where certain people are asked on their thoughts of the material
What is a focus group?
Newsroom lingo for the caption under a photo