Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adland | an idealised land portrayed by advertisements. |
| admass | the mass audience of advertisements. |
| advertorial | an advertisement presented as if it were editorial material. |
| antipress | opposed to the Press. |
| backfile | the back numbers of a journal etc. |
| blatt | (Sl.) a newspaper. |
| broadsheet | a newspaper of large format, measuring approx 40×60cm (about 16×24in); a quality newspaper. |
| byline | a line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article or photograph naming the author or photographer; (verb) to write under a byline. |
| centerfold | the centre pages of a magazine. |
| centrefold | the centre pages of a magazine. |
| churnalism | a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research. |
| cliffhang | to keep a reader in suspense. |
| cliffhanging | the act of keeping a reader in suspense. |
| copyedit | to proofread copy for a newspaper. |
| copywriting | writing advertising copy. |
| cutline | (US) a caption. |
| factoid | an invented fact believed to be true because of its appearance in print. |
| factoidal | like a factoid. |
| fandom | the world of fans. |
| fanzine | a magazine for fans. |
| fauxmance | (Coll.) a fake romance between two celebrities in order to gain press coverage. |
| feuilleton | (Fr.) in French and other newspapers, a part ruled off the bottom of a page for a serial story, critical article, etc; a contribution of this kind. |
| flackery | publicity. |
| freesheet | a newspaper distributed free. |
| frontlist | a list of books about to be published. |
| frontpage | to put on the front page of a newspaper. |
| girlie | a magazine showing scantily clad females. |
| girly | like a girl (noun) a girly magazine showing scantily clad females |
| headline | to provide with a title. |
| iconic | like an icon. |
| iconical | like an icon. |
| iconically | (Adv.) ICONICAL, like an icon. |
| iconicity | the state of being iconic. |
| iconify | to make an icon of. |
| iconise | to make an icon of. |
| iconize | to make an icon of. |
| izvestiya | (Russian) news, information. |
| journalism | the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media. |
| lamestream | the traditional media such as newspapers, television and radio, considered by some people as old-fashioned and gullible when compared to online news sources such as blogs. |
| leaderette | a brief newspaper leader. |
| lede | the introductory section of a news story. |
| magalogue | a large mail-order catalog in the form of a magazine. |
| magazine | a type of periodical publication. |
| masscult | culture as popularised by the mass media. |
| mook | (Japanese) a book produced in magazine format. |
| newsiness | the quality of being newsy. |
| newspaper | a collection of folded printed sheets of paper published periodically (usu daily or weekly) for circulating news, etc; (verb) to work on a newspaper. |
| newssheet | a simple form of document or publication giving news and information. |
| newswire | a teleprinter which transmits news stories as they occur. |
| newswriting | journalism. |
| nonstory | an insignificant news story. |
| offprint | a reprint of a single article from a periodical; (verb) to make an offprint. |
| personal | related to oneself (noun) an advertisement or notice in the personal column of a newspaper |
| photojournalism | journalism in which written copy is subordinate to pictorial usually photographic presentation of news stories or in which a high proportion of pictorial presentation is used. |
| photojournalist | a practitioner of photojournalism. |
| plugola | free incidental advertising. |
| promo | (Short for) promotion, in sense of a promotional video recording; (verb) to promote with a video. |
| rapportage | (Fr.) the description of real events in writing. |
| reportage | the act or process of reporting news. |
| reportorially | (Adv.) REPORTORIAL, relating to the work of a reporter. |
| scarehead | a newspaper heading designed to raise a scare. |
| screenwriter | a writer of screenplays. |
| semimonthly | half-monthly; (noun) a periodical appearing twice a month. |
| sportswriting | journalism on sports subjects. |
| strapline | a subsidiary headline in a newspaper or magazine. |
| sub | (Short for) submarine; subscription; substitution; (verb) to subscribe, substitute etc. |
| subedit | to proofread and correct text for a newspaper. |
| subhead | an inferior heading. |
| subsidiariat | a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc). |
| tabloid | a small newspaper. |
| tabloidy | like a tabloid newspaper. |
| telejournalism | journalism for television. |
| termly | once a term; (noun) a periodical appearing once a week. |
| thinkpiece | a journalistic piece designed to provoke thought. |
| topline | important enough to be mentioned in a headline; (verb) to feature in a headline. |
| topliner | a person who is topline, important enough to be mentioned in a headline. |
| zine | (Sl.) a specialist magazine. |