Newspaper Terminology

Believe it or not, this is all of the terminology that goes into a newspaper, the words and meanings of them, which also includes the terminlogy that will be in my website and poster.

Advertisement — Printed notice of something for sale paid for by the advertiser.
Anchor - An image, word or phrase (usually in color and underlined) that, when clicked, connects you to another Web page.
Application - A computer software program that performs a specific task: word processing, page layout, illustration, etc.
Assignment — A story a reporter is detailed to cover.
Baseline – An imaginary line that type rests on.
Banner — A headline in large letters running across the entire width of the first page.
Bleed – A page element that extends to the trimmed edge of a printed page.
Body Copy — The main part of a story.
Bold Face - A heavier, darker weight of a typeface; used to add emphasis
Broadsheet — A standard or large-sized newspaper which vary from newspaper to newspaper.
Byline — The name of the writer printed at the top of a story.
Caption — A title or explanatory phrase accompanying a picture. The larger type over a cutline.
Column – A vertical stack of text; also called a leg.
Continuation line –Type telling the reader that a story continues onto the next page.
Cut off rule – A horizontal line running under a story, photo or cutline to separate it from another element below.
Cold Type — Type that is produced photographically
Column Inch — Space measurement - one column wide by one inch deep.
Copyright — An author's exclusive right of property for his works.
Dateline — The line at the beginning of a story giving the place and date of the reported incident.
Deadline — A time at which all copy for an edition must be submitted.
Dummy — A diagram or layout of a newspaper page, showing the placement of stories, headlines, pictures and advertisements.
Editor — A person who directs the editorial policies; or a person who decides what news will go in the paper and where it will appear
Extra — A special edition of the newspaper, printed between regular editions, containing news too important to hold for the next regular edition.
Feature — A story in which the interest lies in some factor other than the news value, usually to entertain.
Filler — Short news or information items used to fill small spaces in the news columns.
Five W's — Who, what, when, where, why (sometimes "H" for how); the major questions answered in the lead of a well-written news story.
Flag — The newspaper's name on page one.
Folio — The number(s) of the page.
Follow-up — A story that adds more information to a story already printed.
Font — A complete assortment of type of one size and face.
Gutter — The margin between facing pages where the fold lies.
Hard News — Factual news stories without opinion.
Headline — An explanatory title over a newspaper article summarizing the main point for the reader.
Layout — To position editorial, pictorial and advertising elements on a page to prepare it for the camera and printing.
Lead — The first few sentences or the first paragraph of a news story, containing the summary or the introduction to the story
Leading — The amount of space between lines.
Logotype (logo) — A design bearing the name or trademark of a company or business.
Market — People the newspaper want to attract with its news and advertising.
Masthead — The matter printed in every issue of a newspaper or journal, stating the title, ownership, management, subscription and other non-news features.
Negative — A photographic image in which the values of the original copy are reversed, so that the dark areas appear light and vice versa.
Newsprint — The uncoated, machine-finished paper on which newspapers are printed.
Pagination — The computerized process by which a newspaper is laid out, or paged.
Plagiarism — Passing off as one's own the ideas and words of another.Play — Emphasis given a story or page.
Press Run — Total number of copies printed.
Publisher — The chief executive and often the owner of a newspaper.
Release — Advance information about a story given to the newspaper by the source of the news.
Reporter — A person who finds out facts about a story and then writes the story for the newspaper.
Review — An account of an artistic event, which offers a critical evaluation, the opinion of the writer.
Rewrite — (1) write a story again to improve it; (2) alter a story that appeared somewhere else; (3) or write a story from facts called in by a reporter.
Stringer — A part-time reporter or correspondent.
Tabloid — Taking the standard size of the newspaper and folding into half, usually stitched or stapled and trimmed.
Typo — Short for "typographical error," a mistake made during the production of a story.
Web Press — Machine used to print the newspaper. Paper is woven through the press to facilitate printing.

From researching this, i now have a considerably better knowledge and understanding of the amount of terms that are used within the print industry, of which i shull without doutb use and take on board throughout my development of my project.