Other terminologies in news room and journalism

Other terminologies in news room and journalism

Crony Journalism: This kind of reporting and coverage ignores or treats lightly negative news of about friends and acquaintances.
• Continuity: This refers to all radio and television scripts besides commercials
• Cue (Noun): This is a signal to an announcer, a newscaster or production personnel to participate in a broadcast.
• Cub: This term is used to describe a beginning reporter.
• Cutaway: This refers to the transition shot from them to another. It is used to avoid jamb cut.
• Deadline: This refers to the time in which a reporter, editor or desk must have completed scheduled work for the day.
• Dateline: This refers to the name of the city or town and date, which are placed at the beginning of stories not of local origin.
• Credit line: This is line designates, if necessary, the source of a story or cut “By NAN–News Agency of Nigeria”.
• Dry: This refers to a period lacking in news. It is also called a lull period.
• Dolly: This refers to a camera platform.
• Dub: This refers to the transfer of one videotape to another.
• Exclusive: This refers to a story that is printed solely by one newspaper or an individual. This could also be called a “scoop”.
• Edition: This refers to one version of a newspaper per day.
• Editorial material: This means all materials in the newspaper that is advertising related.
• Enterprise copy: This is a story often covered by a reporter. It is like a news story but digs deeper than the usual news story.
• Establishing shot: This is a wide shot used to give the viewer a sense of the scene of action.
• Fade: This refers to either physical or mechanical lowering of a voice or music to smooth a transition between sounds.
• File: To send a story to office usually by wire or telephone or to put news services on the wire.
• Filler: This refers to minor news materials used to fill up spaces in the newspaper. It is also called column closers and shorts.
• Flag: This is the printed title of a newspaper on page 1. It is also called logotype or nameplate.
• Folo: This is a story that follows up a particular theme in a news story format.
• FM: This refers to Frequency Modulation you must be Familia with this one, right?.
• Freelance: This refers to an unattached writer, reporter, photojournalist or columnist who writes for a media organisation for a fee.  • Graf: This is an abbreviation for paragraph