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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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drop intro
News service; Journalism
Also called a delayed intro. A style of intro writing in which the main key point is not mentioned until the second or third sentence. Used for effect, often in humorous stories.
Audit Bureaux of Circulations (ABC)
News service; Journalism
Industry-owned companies which audit (and verify) print media circulation figures. The ABCe (Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic) audits traffic figures for online ...
feed
News service; Journalism
The transfer of information from a source to a recipient, whether raw information from reporter to studio or finished reports fed to a transmitter or another station for ...
typeface
News service; Journalism
In printing, a set of letters, numbers and punctuation marks designed in one particular style. The typeface of this glossary is Ariel. The typeface of this sentence is Courier ...
active proceedings
News service; Journalism
Legal proceedings are said to be active – with constraints on reporting, such as contempt laws - when a person has been arrested or charged, or a warrant or summons has been ...
insert
News service; Journalism
(1) Additional text inserted into a story after it has been written, usually to give additional details. (2) Another term for audio used to illustrate a radio report. See also ...
widow
News service; Journalism
The final, short line of a paragraph which has become separated from the paragraph in the previous column and therefore appears at the top of the next column. See also orphan ...
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- Investigative journalism (66)
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