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Chapter 4
Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The person or body that owns, runs, or controls a publication, sets broad guidelines and general policies but is rarely concerned with day-to-day operations |
| Managing Editor | The person who has overall responsibility for a news operation or publication |
| Beat Reporter | Reporter assigned to check the same news source for each issue of the paper |
| General Assignment Reporter | A person who writes articles or does the work on any subject assigned as the editor sees fit |
| Jump | To continue a story from one page to another |
| WED | The concept of joint planning of pages or sections of publications by writers, editors, and designers |
| Maestro | The concept of joint planning of pages or sections of publications by writers, editors, and designers; also called WED approach |
| Mainbar | The main story of several stories about a topic on one page of a paper; the story that brings the issue into sharp focus. |
| Sidebar | A story supplementing, but separate from, another story on the same subject in the same issue of the paper |
| Future Book | A chronological list of upcoming events that might be worth covering; a long-range calendar of events and ideas |