1. Journalism terms

2. Factors determining news value
Impact: how many readers will be affected
Conflict: what is at stake
Novelty: how different or unique something is
Prominence: name recognition, importance
Proximity: how near or close
Timeliness: currency, imminence

3. terms News: straight, factual, informational story
Attribution: accurately credits or quotes source
Succinct: straight, to the point, concise
News Lead: usually 35 words or less; first paragraph of a story usually telling the 5 W’s and H
Anecdote: a memorable incident or personal short story that begins an article
Soft news: more entertaining then timely
Hard news: emphasis on basic facts rather than on emotion
Inverted pyramid: facts in descending order of importance
Human interest: another name for a feature story

4. Front page news terms
Banner: a wide headline extending across the entire page
Broadsheet: a full-sized newspaper, measuring roughly 14 by 23 inches
Byline: the reporter’s name, usually at the beginning of an article
Dateline: a line located at the beginning of a news story that tells where the story takes place or where it was written
Feature: a non-hard news story
Flag: the name of a newspaper as it’s displayed on page one; also called the nameplate
Four-Color: the printing process that combines cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, and black to produce full-color photographs and artwork

5. Headline: large type running above or beside a story to summarize its content; also called a “head” for short
Jump: to continue a story on another page; text that’s been continued on another page is called the jump
Jump line: type telling the reader that a story is continued from another page
Layout: the placement of art and text on a page; to lay out a page is to design it
Masthead: a block of information, including staff names and publication data, often printed on the editorial page
Sidebar: a small story accompanying a bigger story on the same topic

6. Lead story: a news story of major importance; usually the largest article written on the front page
Dominant photo: a photo that leads the reader to the center of the page; usually in relation to the lead article
Nameplate (flag or logo): a stylized signature of a newspaper which appears at the top of page one
Index: Table of contents of each paper, usually placed on page one.

7. Active voice: In active voice the subject (the subject of the verb) performs the action. Active voice puts the person or thing (the subject) doing the action first in the sentence, then the verb.
     Active: Jane baked the cookies. (Jane, as the person doing the action, is first in the sentence.)      Passive: The cookies were baked by Jane.