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News service

Of or pertaining to any organisation, agency or person engaged in the business of selling news to the public.

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news desk

News service; Journalism

The main desk in a newsroom, usually where the news editor and/or other senior journalists sit.

newsworthy

News service; Journalism

Aspects of an event or development that make it worth communicating in a news story or feature.

plagiarism

News service; Journalism

To use the work of another person as if it was one’s own, without attribution. It is unethical.

direct quote

News service; Journalism

The exact words used by a person, written within quotation marks and usually attributed to them.

fact

News service; Journalism

Something which is true and can be proved to be true by objective methods. Compare with opinion.

sans serif

News service; Journalism

A design of print type such as Ariel without small extensions at the ends or corners of letters.

scoop

News service; Journalism

An important or significant news published or broadcast before other competing media know of it.