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Newspaper Terms

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by jimmydangles, May 9, 2008.

  1. My all-time favorite:

    The morgue.
     
  2. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Haven't heard veelox in years.
     
  3. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

  4. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Guys remember cleaning up around the apartment or home and finding those goddamn hairlines, scotch, and 1 pts everywhere?
     
  5. jimmydangles

    jimmydangles Member

    Can we define a few of these, so the noobs can learn a little?

    We shorten every word possible -- even in speech. "Sport" becomes "spt" (pronounced "spit"), etc.
     
  6. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Which ones?
     
  7. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Chapel Meeting ("Don't touch the mu'er fik'n type!")
     
  8. jimmydangles

    jimmydangles Member

    Thanks for tossing the young'uns a bone, FW.

    Veelox, for one. And I'm not sure I know exactly what a takeout is, other than it's an assignment I probably want (and the best food I can hope to eat on a journalism salary).
     
  9. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    Takeout, thumbsucker, long-form = stories that are quite lengthy and informative, delving deep into a topic. Should be developed during the course of covering a beat. Falling by the wayside in the name of style and decreased attention spans.
     
  10. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Veelox=Was the result of a processing machine what would would produce a high-gloss, high-quality boardsheet print.
    Takeout=Wow. I thought this was a common one. (I'm not passing judgment). It's basically a long feature. A lot of places had a "takeout writer." Originally it was a magazine term. You could pull the pages out, self-contained, or take them out.
     
  11. jimmydangles

    jimmydangles Member

    Had an inkling, just never heard it defined.

    Has anyone else ever heard of "Wellingtons?"
     
  12. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    I'm glad we have lost the term "dingbat" from our lexicon. Our old hot-type composing room guys just couldn't understand why the smart-ass college kid didn't want to run them all over the place.

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