glossary terms

• Ad, Advertisment Printed notice of something for sale for by the advertiser.
• AP Associated Press, a wire service
• Art Any photo, map graph, or illustration
• Assignment A story a reporter is detailed to cover
• Caption 


  A title or explanatory phrase accompanying a picture.
• Caps 


  abb. for capital letters
• Byline 


  The name of the writer printed at the top of the story
• Bullet 


  A large black dot
• Budget 


  The lineup of news stories scheduled for the next day newspaper
• Broadsheet


  A "standard" or large-sized newspaper.
• Bold Face


  A heavy or dark type
• Body Copy 


  The main part of the story
• Beat


  . a reporters regular routine for covering news sources
• Banner


  A headline in large letter running across the entire width of the first page
• Balloon


  A drawing usually in a comic strip
• Associated Press Stylebook 


  The standard reference source for reporters and editors on word usage, liber, numbers, titles, capitalization, and commonly used words and phrases.
• Assignment

  .A story a reporter is detailed to cover
• Carrier 


  A person who delivers the newspaper
• Circulation


  the total number of copies of the newspaper distributed in one day
• City Desk


  The area of newsroom where local news are covered
• Clip Art 


  A variety of art provided to newspapers on a subscription basis, for use in ads
• Clips 


  articles that have been cut out of the newspaper, short for clippings
• Cold Type 


  type that is produced photographically
• Color


  to add color or to add command attention and influences buying decisions
• Color key 


  the negatives for the full color photo
• Column 


  the arrangement of horizontal lines of type in a news story.
• Column Inch 


  space measurement - one column wide by one inch deep.
• Columnist 


  a person who writes a regular column giving personal opinions
• Copy 


  All materials for publication
• Compose 


  to set type or design pages
• Box


  border around the story or photo