Newspaper Terms

I had an editor once who called stand-alone photos "wild art"

 

Yep, that's not exactly obscure.

 

Sted
Hed
I use "breef" too -- just to piss people off
colsig

 

i think the whole idea of spelling words as they sound was an effort to save characters and thus money because messages were sent via telegraph and that's how they were charged.

for me, it gives me an ability to communicate with my kids in text message.

find it funny that people harken back to the days of wax and xacto knives. no one here old enough to remember hot type? seems the last of those guys are just about at retirement age.

 

We're done?

Isn't there more to talk about?

 

And then, on to, the Trash-80.

 

Heck, I remember it, and I still have a ways to go before retirement age.

 

Gutter. White space. Negatives (both in a newspaper AND a photographic sense). Gamer.

It's amazing how few people understand ANY of those terms anymore.

And yes, at my first post-Navy paper in 1998, we were still doing inside pages by hand, with pica poles, waxers and veelox. Didn't use the whiz wheel, nor headline point counts very much.

 

I was right at the point where they gave us exhaustive instruction on counting heads in college ... and when I got to the pros, there was no need for it.

 

I don't know, but "the morgue" can pretty much refer to any part of a newspaper office nowadays, not just where the old papers are.

 

BC-Bus Plunge, 1st - Ld Writethru, 234
Eds: ADDS dropped word "grotesque" in lede; ADDS victims names in new 6th graf; CORRECTS spelling of state trooper's name throughout; pick up 7th graf, "Impaled on a fence post ..."

 

Sounds like great reading to accompany breakfast and coffee in the morning. Reminiscent of seeing the story on the wire a few years ago of the guy in Montana who supposedly butchered a little boy and fed him to his neighbors.

Eds: Note contents in 4th graf.