Voice

The voice of a piece has to do with style and tone. Here's Don Murray defining it, "The quality of writing, sometimes called. style or tone, that gives the reader the illusion of an individual person speaking to an individual reader."

VDT

VDT is the Visual Display Terminal, one of the terms used to describe the word processors on which reporters write their stories and have them edited, according to Don Murray.

No one uses such a terminal. Reporters use a desktop, laptop, or a tablet to write stories.

2-3-1 principle

2-3-1 principle is a method of organizing a news story. Here is how it is defined by Don Murray:

"A way of describing the points of emphasis in a unit of writing. The most important point is at the end, the next important point at the beginning, and the least in the middle."

Traditional journalism

Traditional journalism or colloquially known as old school journalism. It is defined as follows by Don Murray:

"Journalism in which the reporter emphasizes fact, makes no comment upon it, does not intrude on the story, and maintains a position as an objective, impartial deliverer of attributed information."

Takeout

"A story that attempts to put an entire issue in context," defines Don Murray.

Sidebar

Don Murray defines it as: "A subsidiary story that runs beside a main story."

Roundup

No. We're not talking about the weed control chemical. Rather, a roundup is defined as a story that summarizes everything that has been written on a particular event that up to today, mainly for complex, drip stories.

Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play

"It was to assure his readers they could believe what they read that, in 1913, at the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer created a Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play. In a 1984 article in the Columbia Journalism Review, Casandra Tate described how the World's first ombudsman noticed a pattern in the newspaper's reporting on shipwrecks: each such story featured a cat that had survived. When the ombudsman asked the reporter about this curious coincidence, he was told:

One of those wrecked ships had a cat, and the crew went back to save it. I made the cat a feature of my story, while the other reporters failed to mention the cat, and were called down by their city editors for being beaten. The next time there was a shipwreck, there was no cat but the other ship news reporters did not wish to take a chance, and put the cat in. I wrote the report, leaving out the cat, and then I was severely chided for being beaten. Now when there is a shipwreck all of us always put in the cat."

Point of view

There are two definition for point of view:
* The opinion of the writer, in other words, his point of view.
* And the point of view or the prism through which a story is framed for readers. For example, a story can be told from the point of view of a child.

Nut graph

The nut graph is defined as the paragraph that immediately follows the lead and puts the whole story in context, according to Don Murray.