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A source’s request that a reporter not publish information until a specified time.
What is an embargo?
The whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
In tennis, the tournament where the men’s champion receives a gold cup topped by a pineapple.
What is Wimbledon?
In a birth chart, the “rising sign” is also called this.
What is the ascendant?
“Karaoke” literally means “empty” this.
What is an orchestra?
The paragraph (often after the lede) that explains why the story matters right now.
What is the nut graf?
The anchor of CBS Evening News long nicknamed “the most trusted man in America”
Who is Walter Cronkite?
In NCAA men’s basketball, “double bonus” free throws begin after the defense commits this many team fouls in a half.
What is 10?
The 12-part framework that maps life areas (career, relationships, etc.) in a natal chart.
What are the houses?
“Quarantine” originally meant a waiting period of this many days.
What is 40?
A freelance contributor who isn’t on staff but regularly provides reports, photos, or tips to a newsroom
What is a stringer?
The paper where Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke major Watergate reporting.
What is The Washington Post?
The trophy bearing the faces of every winner of the Indianapolis 500 is named for this company.
What is the Borg-Warner Trophy?
In Western astrology, the zodiac tied to the seasons (not the constellations) is knowns as this zodiac.
What is the tropical zodiac?
This is the only temperature where Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same number.
What is -40 degrees?
A court order stopping publication before it happens—two words often debated under the First Amendment.
What is prior restraint?
This former immigrant turned Revolutionary hero was killed in an 1804 duel that became a national sensation.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
In five-day Test cricket, a team may be forced to bat again immediately if it trails by at least this many runs.
What is 200?
Earth’s slow wobble that shifts the equinox point over time is the precession of these.
What are the equinoxes?
“Salary” traces back to a payment associated with this mineral (and no, it wasn’t bitcoin).
What is salt?
Daily Double!!!
Wiener Zeitung
After the U.S. Supreme Court case involving the New York Times Company and the Pentagon Papers, this “actual malice” standard from a 1964 case became central to U.S. defamation law for public officials.
What is New York Times Co. v. Sullivan?
In sabermetrics, this pitching metric estimates outcomes using only K, BB, HBP, and HR (stripping away most fielding).
What is FIP?
The "Zodiac Killer" murdered at least five people in this metropolitan area between December 1968 and October 1969.
What is San Francisco?
“Pandemonium” was coined by this English poet in Paradise Lost.
Who is John Milton?