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feature - (1) noun - any story that has human interest value, even though it is not news in the strict sense (2) verb - to give prominence to a story or to emphasize a particular angle of a story

file - to send news by wire; also used to designate one day's output by a press association

filler - short informational stories or advertisements, usually timeless, used to fill small spaces where needed

first-day story - a story published for the first time and dealing with something that has just happened, as distinguished from a "follow-up" story

five W's - who? what? when? where? why? - the questions usually answered in the lead of a news story

First Amendment - the first article of the American Bill of Rights, guaranteeing Americans freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition

flag - the printed title (i.e., name and logo) of a newspaper at the top of the front page

flash - the first brief bulletin from a press association with information about an important news event

flop - to reverse art laterally

flush - even with the column margin. Type set "flush" has no indentation for paragraphs.

folio - newspaper name, date, and page number that appear at the top of each page

follow-up - story giving later developments of an event already reported

font - a complete assortment of type of a given design, style and size

four-color process - a printing process that reproduces a full range of colors by overprinting red, yellow, blue and black (The true colors are: magenta, yellow, cyan, and black)

fourth estate - traditional term for "the press" which originated in the 18th century English parliament

freedom of the press - in the United States, the freedom granted in Article I of the Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make now law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...; in Canada, the freedom granted in Section 1f of the Bill of Rights.

ghost - a "ghost writer" is someone who writes stories for another's signature

glossy - a shiny-finished photographic print, generally easier to use than "matte-finished" prints

goodnight - a reporter is released from duty for the day when he or she gets a "goodnight" from the editor

graf - paragraph

graveyard shift - same as dog watch

gutter - the space or margin between facing pages

handout - a press release - prepared material given to news people in the hope that it will be printed without change or that it will be helpful in preparing news stories hard news - important news - straight news reporting without interpretation or background material

head/header - headline

headline - display type placed over a story summarizing the story for the reader; commonly thought of as the largest line of type across top of newspaper calling attention to the most important story of that edition.

hold - "hold for release" instruction to hold a story until the editor releases it for publication

hook - the stylistic device used by a reporter to draw a reader into the story

hot - a label given to an important story

human interest - emotional appeal in the news. A "human interest" story, as compared with a "straight news" story, bases its appeal more on the unusual than on consequence.

index - table of contents of the newspaper, usually found on page one

insert - a flyer or magazine that is inserted into the folded newspaper after it has been printed

inverted pyramid - the standard news story structure in which facts are arranged in descending order of importance

issue - all the copies which a newspaper publishes in one day

jumplines - the continuation instructions of a story that is jumped to another page (Continued on page 5; Continued from page 1)

justify - computers add spaces between words or individual letters of type so that lines of a column are flush left and flush right