THE NEWSPAPER – VOCABULARY
1. HEADLINE: The title of the story
2. DATELINE: The date of the newspaper
3. MASTHEAD: The name of the newspaper
4. FRONT PAGE: The cover page of the newspaper
5. BYLINE: The line that tells who wrote the story
6. PHOTO: a photograph or picture taken with a camera
7. CAPTION: information below a photo
8. LEAD: The first paragraph of a news story (tells who, what, where, when & why)
9. BODY: The rest of the news story with more details about what happened
10. ARTICLE: A true story or facts in the newspaper
11. QUOTATIONS: The exact words that someone said
12. JOURNALIST: A person who writes articles for the newspaper
13. COLUMN: A weekly article that is written by the same journalist / reporter every week,
and is located in the same part of the newspaper every week. The column is topic
specific and the journalist is expressing his/her opinion
14. CLASSIFIEDS: The section of the newspaper that advertises jobs, deaths, births,
marriages, items for sale, property for rent or sale
15. EDITORIAL: An article written by a higher level journalist who expresses her/her opinion
on a current event usually related to politics
16. EDITORIAL CARTOON: A one frame cartoon that is in the editorial section of the
newspaper and relates to a political current event. It is both serious and humorous.