Where the names of a newspaper's publishers and editors are listed.
What is a masthead?
100
Covers a beat, attends events and talks to sources.
What is a reporter?
100
Produces Web content, Flash animations, and edits Web-only features.
What is the online staff?
100
For stories that could be particularly sensitive, reads stories for potentially libelous statements and, again, asks for support for controversial statements.
What is a company lawyer?
200
The area or subject that a reporter covers.
What is a beat?
200
Cutting off part of a picture.
What is cropping?
200
Hires and evaluates reporters and responsible for coverage of a geographic area.
What is a bureau chief or editor?
200
Sometimes travels with reporter and films video and edits together for posting on Web site.
What is a videographer?
200
Answers research questions from reporters and has access to expensive databases.
What is the library?
300
When a picture goes to the edge of a page.
What is bleeding?
300
A reporter who is not on the newspaper staff but sends in stories.
What is a stringer?
300
Responsible for a feature page.
What is a section editor?
300
Gets involved in sensitive stories and page-1 stories.
What is a final reader?
300
Directly involved with the final draft of the newspaper and making sure it is ready to be printed.
What is the editor-in-chief?
400
A word on a line by itself at the end of a paragraph.
What is a widow?
400
When a newspaper publishes a big story before anyone else.
What is a scoop?
400
Edits for clarity, double-checks numbers and full, formal names of corporations and people named.
What is a copy editor?
400
Correspond with reporter and section editor about possible "art" -- photos, charts, graphs.
What are graphics people?
400
Collects information from stock exchanges
What is the market data group?
500
A mistake in a printed word caused by hitting the wrong letter key.
What is a typo?
500
Text indicating the nature of the article below it.
What is a headline?
500
Edits the less prominent pages.
What is a news editor?
500
Look at photograph of news subject and draw a portrait over a few hours.
What is a portrait artist?
500
Sells ads to other companies to put in the newspaper.