Glossary Terms

Associated Press (AP) – a cooperative, worldwide news-gathering service Assignment – any news-gathering task given to a reporter
Column – (1) area on a news page usually 10 to 14 picas (12pt type) wide or 8 picas wide on a classified page (2) article written regularly either by a writer or “columnist”
Deadline – the last moment to get a copy in for an edition
Exclusive – a story printed by one paper; a scoop
Feature – (1) noun – any story that has human-interest value, even though it’s not news in the strict sense (2) verb - to give prominence to a story or to emphasize a particular angle
Hot – a label given to an important story
Lead – (1) the first few sentences or the first paragraph of a story (2) a tip that may lead to a story
Style Book – a compilation of typographical and other rules formulated by a newspaper to make uniform its treatment of spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, typography, etc… Most newspaper provide style books for staff’s use.

A glimpse at a few Midwest colleges with the best in journalism and communications programming:

Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism at Butler University www.butler.edu/journalism
Bowling Green State University www.bgsu.edu
Columbia College Chicago School of Media Arts www.colum.edu
Emory University www.journalism.emory.edu
Indiana State University: Department of Communication www.indstate.edu/comm
The John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University www.howard.edu/schoolcommunications
Miami University-Oxford www.muohio.edu
Michigan State University www.msu.edu
Northern Kentucky University  www.nku.edu
Ohio University  www.ohio.edu
University of Dayton  www.udayton.edu
University of Cincinnati  www.uc.edu

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Top media organizations & publications:
ABC  www.abcnews.go.com
CBS www.cbsnews.com
NBC www.nbc.com
BBC  www.bbc.co.uk
CNN  www.cnn.com
LA Times  www.latimes.com
NY Times www.nytimes.com
USA Today  www.usatoday.com
The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com
The E.W. Scripps Company www.scripps.com

Internships:
Fast Track Internships  www.fasttrackinternships.com
Fast Web www.fastweb.com
InternTown  www.interntown.com

ACT/SAT Info, Registration & Pre-Tests:

ACT www.act.org
SAT  www.collegeboard.com

Financial Aid/Scholarship Info:

FAFSA www.fafsa.ed.gov

FastWeb www.fastweb.com
Petersons www.petersons.com
Scholarships www.scholarships.com
Tuition Funding Sources www.tuitionfundingsources.com

Navigating your way toward college and discovering your career:
CYC (Cincinnati Youth Collaborative)  www.cycyouth.org
Urban League of Greater Cincinnati  www.gcul.org
Media Bridges  www.mediabridges.org
Kuder Career Planning System www.kuder.com
My Majors  www.mymajors.com
Project Careers  www.projectcareer.com

Student Media Membership Organizations & Associations:
National Scholastic Press Association
National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
Northeast Ohio Scholastic Press Association
Associate Collegiate Press (ACP)
American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.
Hip Hop Journalism Association, Inc. (HHJA)
MyJo Mojo at MTV: Youth Citizen Journalism
Journalism Education Association (JEA)
American Press Institute
The Associated Press
Association of Young Journalists
Association of Young Journalists & Writers