Newspaper Terminology

The design and position of stories, advertisements, pictures, and more in the paper.

Human interest news pieces such as entertainment stories, features, reviews, and more.

This section of the newspaper contains stories and news related to sports.

A line indicating who wrote the story.

A line of text that is slightly smaller that the headline.

An article in a newspaper or other periodical that presents the opinions of the newspaper, publisher or editors.

A section of the newspaper that contains stories about movies, plays, food, music, and other topics in popular culture.

This section of the newspaper contains stories and new related to business.

The first sentence or the beginning of a story.

A recurring opinion-based article

A line of text that states where the story was physically written.

This section of the newspaper contains stories relevant to the city or town in which the paper is published.

A brief description underneath a photo that explains what is happening in the photo.

A continuation line that appears at the end of a story on a page that directs readers to the rest of the story.

Text formatted in a large type setting that summarizes a story and grabs the attention of readers

This abbreviation refers to the opinions and editorial pages of the newspaper.

Breaking news stories that contain timely and relevant information.

This page contains the most timely, relevant, and newsworthy stories.

The top of the newspaper that includes general information about the paper: newspaper name, publisher, date, etc.