Parts of a Newspaper
The section of a newspaper that lists individuals who have passed away along with their funeral arrangements.
What is the Obituaries section?
A journalist who travels around a city, state, country, or the world, telling stories through photos.
What is a photojournalist?
The department that gets to decide whether or not a photo will be used with a particular story and if it is, which photo that will be.
What is the photography department?
Why do some indiviuals gets upset whenever the press are removed from a room?
The believe that it is a violation of their First Amendment right.
The section of a newspaper where one can find a list of businesses that are hiring, houses that are for sale, or people looking for roommates.
What are the Classifieds?
A journalist or group of journalists that are not well-respected. Their job requires them to follow celebrities around or to be the first to report breaking gossip.
What is the paparazzi?
The department that gets the final say on which article goes where, in a newspaper.
Why is it so important for an opinion article to be labeled as "opinion" or "editorial"?
It needs to be clear to all readers that the story is based on personal opinion, and not fact.
The line underneath the title that lists the author's name.
What is a byline?
A journalist who works for a certain newsstation, typically sits at a desk, and provides information on breaking news stories.
What is a news anchor?
The department that gets the final say on the font of a newsstory along with the size and placement of the title/headline.
What is the design department?
What are newspapers doing in order to continue to make profits and respond to the decrease in newspaper sales?
Newspapers are cutting costs by printing shorter newspapers and/or creating digital newspapers that readers must subscribe to.
Referring to the main story, on the front page, and at the top of the newspaper.
What is "above the fold"?
A journalist who tends to work out in the community to provide first-hand interviews or images of the scene of a current event.
What is a field journalist?
The individual or individuals in charge of the final say of a newspaper. They decide whether or not a paper is ready to be published online and/or sent to print.
What is an Editor-In-Chief?
Politico, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal
What are three sources that tend to be reliable and contain little bias?
The name given to a section of a newspaper that contains opinion or persuasive articles.
What is the editorial section of a newspaper?
A journalist whose job is to report on the scores of athletic events as well as evaluate the overall performance of an athlete.
What is a sports analyst?
The department that looks over all the authors' articles to guarantee that each story is written logically and contains no grammatical errors.
What is the Editorial department?
The structure that journalists follow in order to provide readers with the most important information first.
What is the inverted pyramid?