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.

News hole

The space for news after advertising columns have been inserted. Not relevant in the digital age.

Don Murray defines:

"The amount of space left after the advertising columns have been allocated."

New journalism

A style of news writing that is laced with personal experience of the reporter and his opinion. Not objective reporting.

Don Murray defines:

"A term used to describe the journalism of the late sixties and seventies, in which the reporter/writer abandoned the position of objective observer and participated in the story and commented upon the story with personal opinion."

Natural order

The most optimal way to lay out a story.

Here's Don Murray defining it:

“A story that uses a sequence that seems normal to organize the information for the reader. Chronology is used in a narrative; sometimes a place is described by taking a walk through it. Often a legislative act is shown by allowing the reader to experience the process of getting a bill passed or blocked.”