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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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partial quote
News service; Journalism
A quote of which only part of the sentence is used. If words are omitted from within the quote used, their absence is signified by ellipsis (three dots), e.g. He said there was ...
break
News service; Journalism
(1) A story that is first published while the event is still happening. Sometimes called breaking news. (2) A short news bulletin which interrupts a radio or television program to ...
fade
News service; Journalism
In broadcasting, to gradually change the intensity of a sound or picture. Fade-up or fade-in increases the intensity (e.g. volume of a sound or brightness and clarity of a ...
contact
News service; Journalism
A person a reporter will visit or telephone (i.e. 'contact') for information on a topic they are researching. Contacts are usually sources journalists keep in touch with and ...
media
News service; Journalism
(1) Short for mass media or news media, publishers or broadcasters bringing news and information to widespread audiences. (2) Plural of medium, different forms of communicating ...
vox pop
News service; Journalism
From the Latin vox populi ‘voice of the people’, short interviews where several members of the public are stopped at random and asked questions to gauge approximate public opinion ...
jargon
News service; Journalism
Specialised language concerned with a particular subject, culture or profession. It is not usually found in the everyday speech of ordinary readers or listeners and so should be ...
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- Investigative journalism (66)
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