key newspaper terminology

Attribution - A line identifying the source of a quote.
Banner - A wide headline extending across the entire page.
Banner ad - An advertisement stripped across the top or bottom of a Web page.
Bar - A thick rule. Often used for decoration, or to contain type for subheads or standing heads.
Broadsheet - A full-size newspaper, measuring roughly 14 by 23 inches.
Bug - Another term for a sig or logo used to label a story; often indented into the text.
Caption- A line or block of type providing descriptive information about a photo; used interchangeably with cutline.
Column - A vertical stack of text; also called a leg.
Column inch - A way to measure the depth of text or ads; it's an area one column wide and one inch deep.
Filler - A small story or graphic element used to fill space on a page.
Flag - The name of a newspaper as it's displayed on Page One; also called a nameplate.
Gutter - The space running vertically between columns.
Header - A special label for any regularly appearing section, page or story; also called a standing head.
Headline - Large type running above or beside a story to summarize its content; also called a head, for short.
Jump headline - A special headline treatment reserved for stories continued from another page.
Jump line - Type telling the reader that a story is continued from another page.
Layout - The placement of art and text on a page; to lay out a page is to design it.
Quotes - Words spoken by someone in a story. In page-design jargon, a liftout quote is a graphic treatment of a quotation, often using bold or italic type, rules or screens.
Sans serif - Type without serifs: This is sans serif type.
Serif - The finishing stroke at the end of a letter; type without these decorative strokes is called sans serif.
Spread - Another term for a large page layout; usually refers to a photo page.
Subhead - Lines of type, often bold, used to divide text into smaller sections.
Tabloid - A newspaper format that's roughly half the size of a broadsheet newspaper.

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