newspaper

newspaper
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. paper; daily, journal, weekly, gazette, sheet, tabloid.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. publication, paper, daily paper, press, fourth estate, public press, sheet, tabloid, gazette; see also journal 1 , record 1 .
Varieties of newspapers include: daily, weekly, bi-weekly, metropolitan, rural, national, business, tabloid, trade, provincial, community. Parts of newspapers include: front page, editorial page, local news, domestic news, international news, magazine, business, society, sports, entertainment section, amusement section, rotogravure, comics, comic page, classified, advertising, syndicated section*, boiler plate*. Editions of newspapers include: morning, afternoon, evening, home, extra, special, suburban, city, metro, final, mail, Sunday. Famous newspapers include: England: The Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Guardian, Sun, News of the World; France: Le Temps, Le Figaro, Le Monde; Russia: Pravda, Izvestiya, Trud; Germany: Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine; U.S.: USA Today, Washington Post, New YOrk Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
journal, publication, chronicle, daily, weekly, tabloid, scandal sheet, *rag, special edition, press, Gazette, Tribune, Herald, Examiner, Express, Telegram, extra. ''A circulating library with blood pressure.''—Arthur Baer. ''A device for amusing one half of the world with the other half's troubles.''—Leonard Levinson.
WORD FIND
• beat the competition to a story: scoop
• cancel a story: kill, spike
• checks for errors: copy editor
• city news supervisor: city editor
• correction of an inaccuracy: retraction
• early edition: bulldog, bullpup
• hawking of: bootjacking
• large print headline: screamer, second coming type
• large story: feature
• light, human interest story: bright
• London press: Fleet Street
• material to be printed: copy
• nonstaff reporter: freelancer
• number of copies sold each day: circulation
• personal opinion piece: editorial
• prepare for printing: put to bed
• reporter’s name line: byline
• reference room/files: morgue
• short news item: squib
• short stock item: filler
• story in pictures: photojournalism
• story’s point of origin: dateline
• story’s point of view: slant syndicated pieces, press releases, prewritten
• material: canned copy
• trite publicity piece: puff piece
• trivial news period: silly season
• wire services: Associated Press, Reuters

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