WHCA

The W.H.C.A., created in 1914, is an independent group whose members are accredited to cover the president.

2025 February 26, Michael D. Shear, “What Is the White House Press Pool, and Why Is Trump Seizing Control of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

w:White House Correspondents' Association

(US politics, journalism) Initialism of White House Correspondents' Association.


dicatalectic

(poetry) doubly catalectic, at both the middle and the end of the verse


initial caps

(journalism, typography) A casing style similar to title case except that every word invariably begins with a capital letter.


dialogue tag

Not every paragraph of dialogue needs to have a dialogue tag attached to it.

Sometimes inexperienced writers will discover the useful tool of tacking on detail to a dialog tag with a present participal or adverbial phrase: "It's too late," she said, closing the door.

2000, Tom Romano, Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers, →ISBN, page 63:

A dialogue tag has to indicate sound

2004, Leslie Wainger, Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:

An alternative style forsakes italics altogether and assigns a dialogue tag: This is going nowhere, he thought.

2011, Deborah Halverson, Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:

A line of dialogue followed by a dialogue tag looks like this: “Nothing suits me better than a fried egg on toast early in the morning,” Billy said.

2015, Kris James with Laura E. Koons and Stefanie Spangler Buswell, Beyond the Style Manual: Bundle #1, Red Adept Publishing:

(narratology, authorship) A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)


radioplay

(authorship) A script for a story to be produced as a radio show, such as a radio drama.


A-story

(authorship) The main plot in a story, especially a television show.


self-edit

en-verb

self-edit (third-person singular simple present self-edits, present participle self-editing, simple past and past participle self-edited)

self-edits (present singular third-person)
self-editing (participle present)
self-edited (participle past)
self-edited (past)

(authorship) To edit one's own writing while it is being written.


narrative hook

(authorship) A highly exciting opening to a book intended to peak a reader's interest.


page-one rewrite

en-noun

page-one rewrite (plural page-one rewrites)

page-one rewrites (plural)
page one rewrite (alternative)

(authorship) A complete rewrite from the beginning, most commonly of a screenplay.


book tour

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-book tour.wav

(authorship) A series of public events performed by authors in order to promote a newly-released book, including book signings, media appearances, etc.


expository lump

expository lump (plural expository lumps)

(authorship) A portion of a story that contains an excessive amount of exposition.


earn out

en-verb

earn out (third-person singular simple present earns out, present participle earning out, simple past and past participle earned out or earnt out)

earns out (present singular third-person)
earning out (participle present)
earned out (participle past)
earned out (past)
earnt out (participle past)
earnt out (past)

Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.

2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing:

(authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.


Spenserian stanza

en-noun

Spenserian stanza (plural Spenserian stanzas)

Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).

(poetry) A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth (ABABBCBCC).


elegiac pentameter

(poetry) A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth shortened to a single long syllable.


marsiya

From Persian مرثیه (marsiye), from Arabic مَرْثِيَة (marṯiya).

(poetry) An elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain ibn Ali and his comrades of the Karbala'.


free-hanging

(editing, typography; said of headings or list items) Not run in; on a separate line (or multiple separate lines) defined by hard returns.


kionedon

From Ancient Greek κιονηδόν (kionēdón), from κίων (kíōn, “pillar”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “adverbial suffix”).

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion); in vertical lines from top to bottom.


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion)


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is vertical, as on a pillar (kion)


orthographic neighbour

orthographic neighbour (plural orthographic neighbours)

orthographic neighbours (plural)
orthographic neighbor (alternative)

For example, given the word 'cat', the words 'bat', 'fat', 'mat', 'cab', etc. are considered orthographic neighbors.

n.d. Wisconsin Medical College, "MCWord: An Orthographic Wordform Database" (Definitions)

To go even further, the issue concerning the influence of the emotional characteristics of orthographic neighbours has never been investigated directly to our knowledge.

2010 Pamela Gobin and Stéphanie Mathey, "The influence of emotional orthographic neighbourhood in visual word recognition," Current psychology letters [Online], Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2010 | 2010, Online since 07 October 2010, connection on 30 September 2016. URL : http://cpl.revues.org/4984

(orthography) A word that differs from another word of the same length by only one letter.


orthographic neighborhood

orthographic neighborhood (plural orthographic neighborhoods)

orthographic neighborhoods (plural)
orthographic neighbourhood (alternative)

In summary, the present experiments have shown that addition and deletion neighbors form part of a word’s orthographic neighborhood.

2009, Colin J. Davis, “Re(de)fining the Orthographic Neighborhood: The Role of Addition and Deletion Neighbors in Lexical Decision and Reading”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 35(5): 1550-1570:

(orthography) The set of words that can be formed by changing one letter while maintaining letter positions.


Betteridge's law

Betteridge's law of headlines (alternative)
Betteridge's Law (alternative)

/ˈbɛtɹɪd͡ʒɪz ˌlɔː/

/ˈbɛtɹɪd͡ʒəz ˌlɔ/

/ˈbɛtɹɪd͡ʒəz ˌlɑ/

Named after British technology journalist Ian Betteridge who wrote about the phenomenon in a February 2009 online article, although the general concept is older.

No, no, hell no. The true answer is that there is no one answer; that what works best is a dynamic combination of solitary, pair, and group work, depending on the context, using your best judgement. Paired programming definitely has its place. (Betteridge’s Law strikes again!) In some cases that place may even be “much of most days.” But insisting on 100 percent pairing is mindless dogma, and like all mindless dogma, ultimately counterproductive.

2012 March 3, Jon Evans, “Pair Programming Considered Harmful?”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2017-07-15:

Conforming to Betteridge’s law of headlines, the answer is no – or at least, not yet.

2014 February 6, James Temple, “Will Google Translate Let Us Talk to Aliens and Dolphins?: Google’s Peter Norvig Says, Umm, No”, in Recode, archived from the original on 2018-11-12:

And from the National Journal: “When U.S. Steps Back, Will Russia and China Control the Internet?” As Betteridge’s Law of Headlines suggests, the answer is no.

2014 March 25, Jonathan Zittrain, “No, Barack Obama isn’t Handing Control of the Internet over to China: The Misguided Freakout over ICANN”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 2014-03-30:

An earlier and slightly mysterious version of Betteridge's law applies to the rarefied world of particle physics. Hinchliffe's Rule – the mystery lies in who Hinchliffe is or was – states that any scientific paper or website posting whose title ends with a question mark is to be answered with a 'no' or, at best, 'probably not'.

2015, Philip Gooden, “Arts”, in Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule: Life’s Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories, London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 86:

Andrew Marr believes that a headline with a question mark at the end is 'often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic.' (Marr 2005: 253). His advice to readers is – 'If the headline asks a question, try answering "no"' (loc. cit.). This motto has since been parlayed into a 'law' – Betteridge's Law, named for Ian Betteridge after he wrote a piece for Technovia questioning the validity of a news item published under a headline that ended in a question mark[…].

2016, Tim Holmes, “How to Create Great News Headlines”, in Subediting and Production for Journalists: Print, Digitial, Social (Media Skills), 2nd edition, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 88:

For the avoidance of doubt, and with a nod to Betteridge’s law, it is not true that the reason prostate cancer research receives half as much funding as breast cancer, despite a higher mortality rate, is because of bias against men.

2018 February 5, Ally Fogg, “This is the real reason more men are dying of prostate cancer”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-06-12:

(journalism) An adage stating that any headline ending in a question mark can be correctly answered by the word "no".


misscan

en-verb

misscan (third-person singular simple present misscans, present participle misscanning, simple past and past participle misscanned)

misscans (present singular third-person)
misscanning (participle present)
misscanned (participle past)
misscanned (past)


dialytika

The oxia and varia are represented using the regular acute and grave accent characters, the dialytika with the regular diaeresis character, and the psili and dasia are represented using the regular combining-comma-above and combining-reversed-comma-above characters.

2003, Richard Gillam, “The Greek Alphabet”, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, part II (Unicode in Depth: A Guided Tour of the Character Repertoire), chapter 7 (Scripts of Europe), page 240:

(orthography and typography) A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet


sourcerer

sourcerers (plural)
sourceror (alternative)

He has an opposite belief when it comes to "sourcerers," a category in which he puts the Kissingers, the Haigs, and the Weinbergers -- people whose goal, as Mr. Smyser sees it, is to use the press, and ultimately the public, as a means to an end.

1983, Abraham Henry Raskin, Who Said That?:

Media whistleblowers cannot be summarily characterized either as "sources" or "sourcerers".

1992, Hastings communications and entertainment law journal, page 396:

Neither the government litigators nor the evil sourcerers could count on prevailing on any particular set of facts.

1997, Louis S. Freeman, Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-offs, Joint Ventures and Other Strategic Alliances, Financings, Reorganizations and Restructurings, Volumes 3-4:

All effective sourcerers are part news detective.

2003, Sharyl Attkisson, Don Rodney Vaughan, Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News, →ISBN, page 100:

(informal, journalism) A source that massages information they provide to the press to fit their agenda


biolet

(poetry) A six-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABbaBA.


dateliner

The telegraph editor can use the undated as the top of the weather story and tack as many dateliners as he cares on the bottom, with the best coming first.

1946, Robert Miller Neal, Editing the Small City Daily, page 224:

A second Punta del Este dateliner, by Juan de Onis, quoted Secretary of State Dean Rusk giving the official U. S. view, which had already been reported extensively by Kenworthy and Szuie.

1958, Publication - Issues 1-134, page 93:

Pr. (6/13) carries TASS dateliner from Damascus citing new aggression by Israel along Syrian -Israeli front, and states that Israeli forces began move into Syrian territory as UN observers arrived in El Quneitra region.

1964, Radio Liberty Research Paper - Issues 2-33:

(journalism) An article that is published under a dateline.


brachy

Mostly clippings of various scientific terms prefixed with brachy- (short), from the Ancient Greek βραχύ (brakhú).

(orthography, printing) A breve, as applied to Ancient Greek <˘>.


enjamb

enjamb (third-person singular simple present enjambs, present participle enjambing, simple past and past participle enjambed)

enjambs (present singular third-person)
enjambing (participle present)
enjambed (participle past)
enjambed (past)

(poetry) To carry a sentence over to the next line without a pause.


serpentine verse

en-noun

serpentine verse (countable and uncountable, plural serpentine verses)

(poetry) A form of verse constructed so as to begin and end with the same word.


eye in the sky

(journalism) A reporter who rides in a helicopter in order to gauge levels of road traffic.


soft news

"Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.

1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97:

"We have to cover the hard news always, but we have to cover the soft news to meet demand," said Monique Villa, the managing director of Reuters Media, the division that contains its picture and news wires.

2006 June 1, Stephen Brook, quoting Monique Villa, “Reuters moves into lifestyle journalism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(journalism) Broadcast news mainly intended to entertain rather than to inform.


kill fee

(journalism) The reduced fee paid to a writer whose commissioned work does not get published.


rhyme letter

(poetry) The repeated letter or letter sequence in alliteration.


deep background

(US, journalism) The status of information acquired from a source that may be used, but without either naming or directly quoting the source.


caudation

From the Medieval Latin caudātus, from the Classical Latin cauda (“tail”).

To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized.

1978, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics - Volumes 11-12:

As with the voice, this physicality is natural and flexible, a background of four-beat lines, grouped into four five-line stanzas (a central section flanked by anacrusis and caudation) with occasional moves to five- or six- beat lines, and occasional catalexis ("unrealized"/"silent" beats), always at stanzaic ends.

1996, Language and Literature - Volume 21, page 102:

(writing) A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.

There is no adequate reporting system in use that can afford to treat words otherwise than as Hamlet's mother treated her heart, "cleave them in twain and fling away the basser half;" but in script the "baser half" in variably the final portion, and we get in the sentences of the curt style a jumble of inchoate nouns, paraplegic verbs and amputated adjectives, truncated of their tails and dependent each for its re-caudation on the accurate re-cordation (ahem !) of an equally deficient context.

1893, The National Stenographer - Volume 4, page 210:

But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation.

1956, Louis Lavater, The Sonnet in Australasia, a Survey and Selection:

In it, aided by diagrams and equations, you can learn of caudation and lateral expansion, doubling and interlacing.


scooplet

There it was. A minor little news scooplet that I let slip out in front of a phalanx of hungry New York media people. I hinted at the truth: If Tom Coughlin had not remained as head coach of the Giants, I might still be in a Giants uniform.

2008, Tiki Barber, Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond, page 14:

Thus, a steady run of small, intimate scooplets interspersed with the occasional meaty piece had kept him afloat for the past few years.

2009, Peter Burden, News of the World?: Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings:

(journalism) A minor scoop or exclusive.


stoichedon

From Ancient Greek στοιχηδόν (stoikhēdón), from στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “in the manner of”).

(historical, calligraphy) An epigraphical form in which the letters are arranged as rows and columns within a grid arrangement.


Meliboean

From the name of a shepherd in Virgil's first eclogue.


flashline

(journalism) An eye-catching phrase usually placed above a headline.


subhed

(journalism) Alternative form of subhead.


man bites dog

Shortened version of a phrase attributed to various 19th-century journalists: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."

(journalism) A situation that is worth reporting on because it is unusual or bizarre.


flying white

zh-l

飛白／飞白 (fēibái)

(Chinese calligraphy) A kind of calligraphic technique that involves applying a relatively dry brush at high speed to create dry, streaky strokes.


lens louse

Not all the lens lice are in front of the camera. The old "front page" tradition still lingers in our business. There are enough bald-headed, cigar-smoking, visor-decked, hard-drinking city editors to keep the legend alive inside the newsroom.

1956, ABA Journal, volume 42, number 9, page 845:

Just lens lice for the society photographers.

(journalism, slang, derogatory) A person who tries to get into photographs for the sake of publicity.


Topic A

A check on Capitol Hill indicates that federal aid to education—not Laos—is Topic A among those who […]

1961, National Review, volume 10, page 263:

For the few days a story topic is Topic A, elite members of the subculture rush to shape its most widely accepted connotation.

1998, Douglas Gomery, Media in America: The Wilson Quarterly Reader, page 115:

[…] getting rid of Saddam Hussein was "Topic A" ten days after the inauguration — eight months before September 11.

2004, Kristina Börjesson, Into the Buzzsaw, page 81:

(journalism) The main topic of current interest.


forever chemical

en-noun

forever chemical (plural forever chemicals)

From forever + chemical. From being a chemical compound which is highly unlikely to break down.

Forever chemicals have infiltrated water across 43 states nationwide, impacting the drinking supply of about 19 million Americans.

2019 June 7, Jamie Feldman, “Here's Everything We Know About The Forever Chemicals In Food”, in Huffington Post:

These are the Keith Richards of chemicals, known as forever chemicals because they can survive for years without really breaking down.

2020 January 23, Bruce Y. Lee, “Forever Chemicals In Your Drinking Water, It Is Worse Than Previously Thought”, in Forbes:

Some of the most commonly used PFAS chemicals, like PFOS and PFOA (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid) have long half-lives, earning them the moniker the forever chemical.

2020 January 24, Sarah Gibbens, “Toxic forever chemicals more common in tap water than thought, report says.”, in National Geographic:

They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down and have been found to accumulate in humans.

[2021 May 13, Tom Perkins, “Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-05-13:

U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co (MMM.N) on Tuesday set a 2025 deadline to stop producing PFAS, the "forever chemicals" used in anything from cell phones to semiconductors that have been linked to cancers, heart problems and low birth weights.

2022 December 20, “3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3 bln”, in Reuters:

polyfluoroalkyl substance
polyfluoroalkyl substance

(journalism, environmentalism, often in the plural) Synonym of PFAS (“perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance”).


chosen one

Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.

Qui-Gon: He... is the Chosen One. He... will bring balance... Train him.

1999, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace:

(informal, authorship) A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined to become the one.


popcrete

Blend of pop art + concrete, coined by Augusto de Campos; see concrete poem.

(poetry) A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.


pers. comm.

(journalism, bibliography) Abbreviation of personal communication, used by authors to reference personal correspondence in academic referencing.


Graun

That the Graun's effort is part of a coordinated new offensive in that department is pretty conclusively illustrated by […]

2017, Martin Gitlin, When Is Free Speech Hate Speech?, page 134:

(newspapers, humorous) Clipping of Grauniad (“The Guardian newspaper”).


alibi copy

alibi copy (countable and uncountable, plural alibi copies)

(journalism) A copy of a published story and the reporter's notes, which is kept archived in case of legal challenges, etc.


haikuist

(poetry) A person who writes haiku; a haiku poet.


haikuish

en-adj

haikuish (comparative more haikuish, superlative most haikuish)

more haikuish (comparative)
most haikuish (superlative)

(poetry) Resembling or characteristic of haiku; haikulike.


doha

(poetry) A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.


astonisher

(typography, journalism, chiefly US) A short line of smaller type above (or sometimes below) the main headline of an article, usually placed flush-left.

He reveled in socking the reader right in the eye with an “astonisher.”

1969, Shandy Hill, chapter 17, in Dear Sir: You Cur, Philadelphia: Whitmore Publishing, page 119:

(journalism) A headline or lead (introductory paragraph) designed to capture attention through a surprising statement.


hephthemimeral

(poetry) Of or relating to a hephthemimer.


(Canada, US, journalism) Indicates the end of a story, article, or press release that is submitted for editing and typesetting.


ticking clock

(writing) A literary device in which the protagonist has a strict time limit, used to heighten tension.


diiambic

(poetry) In or relating to the diiambus meter.


Pencourt

(UK, journalism) Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour collectively.


copytaking

(journalism, historical) The work of a copytaker, typing up news stories telephoned in by reporters.


cutter and paster

en-noun

cutter and paster (plural cutters and pasters)

She's a great cutter and paster; she can get half the magazine done in a week.

The editor as cutter and paster has brought together an unpretentious assemblage of literary elements: a chronological survey of Latin (what is it? ' writings', or 'readings'? literature, history, apologetics? satire...

1959, American Comparative Literature Association et al, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, page 75:

(informal, journalism) An editor who cuts and pastes or copies and pastes text, stories, pictures, etc. to be published.


catch and kill

non-disclosure agreement
non-disclosure agreement

(journalism) The media technique of suppressing a story by buying the exclusive rights to it, with a legally enforceable non-disclosure agreement, and then refusing to publish it.


metri causa

From Latin metrī causā (literally “for the sake of poetic metre”).


news report

(journalism, newspapers) An individual item of news.


monocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙩ (capital) or ꙩ (lowercase).


double monocular O

en-noun

double monocular O (plural double monocular Os)

From being the doubled form of the monocular O (Ꙩ/ꙩ) letter.

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙭ (capital) or ꙭ (lowercase).


binocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙫ (capital) or ꙫ (lowercase).


bind rune

We have also 2 uncommon Bind-runes here, the OL in SOL and the ER in HUILER.

1867, George Stephens, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, page 356:

(writing) A type of ligature formed by two or more runes; most commonly with two or three runes sharing one or more common vertical strokes, or with several runes arranged vertically with their vertical strokes joined end-to-end.


Elon time

From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.

(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commercial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla, Inc.; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk.


preantepenultima

[…] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.

1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:

(poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.


ypogegrammeni

Borrowed from Greek υπογεγραμμένη (ypogegramméni), from Ancient Greek ὑπογεγραμμένη (hupogegramménē).

bor+

υπογεγραμμένη

der

ὑπογεγραμμένη

(orthography) The Greek iota subscript, ͺ or ͅ.


i'jam

i'jam (plural)
ijam (alternative)
i'jām (alternative)

(orthography) Dots used in modern Arabic script to distinguish between consonants with identical backbone (rasm) shapes.


I before E, except after C

Formed because of the rhyme between the names of the letters E and C, /iː/ and /siː/. The "rule" was invented in the 19th century.

i before e, except after c (alternative)

(orthography, mnemonic) In English words that contain the letters I and E together, the I tends to come before the E (ie), except in cases when the two are preceded by the letter C, in which case the E comes before the I (cei).


hao siao

From Hokkien 嘐潲 (hau-siâu, “fake”). Compare Tagalog hawsyaw.

hao-siao (alternative)
haosiao (alternative)

A Malacañang spokeswoman on Friday said the Bureau of Customs will not tolerate the involvement of media practitioners and "hao siao" (fake) journalists in smuggling, if true.

2011 September 23, Willard Cheng, Palace: Customs won't tolerate 'hao siao' journalists, ABS-CBN News:

On a list prepared by the BOC’s public information and assistance division and posted at the main Customs gate were the names of nearly 100 media people, including some said to be hao-siao.

2013 June 4, Jerry E. Esplanada, Who’s ‘hao-siao’ or legit journalist? BOC confused, Philippine Daily Inquirer:

15th Congress House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II said that there is a lot of resistance against FOI because of the fear it may be used by “hao-siao” or illegitimate media members to ruin politicians (Garcia, 2012).

2018, Ronald U. Mendoza, Edsel L. Beja, Jr., Julio C. Teehankee, Antonio G. M. La Vina, Maria Fe Villamejor-Mendoza, editors, Building Inclusive Democracies In Asean, World Scientific:

(Philippines, journalism, derogatory) pseudojournalists, not employed by a reputable news organization but who pass themselves off as journalists in order to cash in on the payoffs and bribes from news sources, particularly during elections.


fudge box

(journalism, printing, historical) A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.

(journalism, by extension) A small blank area left in a newspaper layout for the insertion of late-breaking news.


antistrophize

en-verb

antistrophize (third-person singular simple present antistrophizes, present participle antistrophizing, simple past and past participle antistrophized)

antistrophizes (present singular third-person)
antistrophizing (participle present)
antistrophized (participle past)
antistrophized (past)

(transitive, poetry) To turn into antistrophe.


Guj

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Gujarat.


Maha

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Maharashtra.


J'khand

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Jharkhand.


U'khand

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Uttarakhand.


K'taka

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Karnataka.


T'gana

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Telangana.


B'luru

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Bengaluru.


B'lore

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Bangalore.


C'garh

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Chandigarh.

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Chhattisgarh.


Hyd

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Hyderabad.


vyaz

(calligraphy) A traditional lettering style for Cyrillic and Slavosphere Latin, slender, ornate and interweaving.


H'yana

(India, journalism) Abbreviation of Haryana.


picture desk

(journalism) The photography department of a newspaper.


pink-slime journalism

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pink-slime journalism.wav

Coined by journalist Ryan Smith in 2012.

(journalism, derogatory) The mass publication of poor-quality news reports (computer-generated or written by poorly-paid outsourced writers) across a network of ostensibly local news outlets.


if it bleeds, it leads

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(journalism, colloquial) Sensational, violent stories are to be prioritized.


constructed script

en-noun

constructed script (plural constructed scripts)

(writing, linguistics) A new writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture as a natural script.


death knock

(journalism) The journalistic practice of visiting people related to somebody who has died, to gather information about the deceased and the killing.


bookwriting

Our bookwriting services embed the true essence of our words in the right manner.

(Can we date this quote?), “Book Writing Services - Professional Book Writers For hire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(writing) The process of writing a book.


imaginism

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪ(ˌ)nɪzəm/

From Russian имажини́зм (imažinízm), from Latin imāgō (“image, representation”).

(poetry) A Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images.


flannel panel

The contributors had a really big credit on their features, so that saves some space / And everyone else is up there in the Flannel Panel From Hell.

1993 September, Your Sinclair, number 93, page 2:

[…] with my (cough!) gargantuan talents other than use them to collect a fortnightly wage for writing flannel panels and interviews with the seemingly miserable (I could never figure out why) cast of Hey Dad...! about how they all got on so well.

2011, Marc Andrews, Claire Isaac, David Nichols, Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007, page 106:

(journalism, slang) A section of a magazine listing the contributors and their roles.


pre-moderation

"We can't completely lock down creativity," says founder Michael Acton Smith, "But nor can we allow the Wild West. So we use tools like software filtering, pre-moderation and post-moderation and we track every communication on the site."

2010 September 8, Milo Yiannopoulos, “Moshi Monsters is leading the way on child safety”, in The Telegraph:

Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian:

(journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.


post-moderation

(journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments after they appear online, with the goal of removing the publication of offensive or dangerous material while allowing discussions to occur in real time.


paragraph break

paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)

(writing systems, orthography) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing or a subsequent indent.


McJournalism

From Mc- + journalism, by association with the McDonald's fast food chain.

The Inquirer finds itself out there in the real world, with a far broader mix of readers. The readers it wants to grab now, in its post-Alpha era, are the middle-brow, middle-class, highly transient denizens of the outer suburbs. They seem more likely candidates for the McJournalism of USA Today than for an Inquirer committed to taking new strides toward seriousness and solidity.

1983 April, Paul Taylor, “Gene Roberts: Down-Home Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer”, in Washington Journalism Review, volume 5, number 3, →ISSN, page 41:

The result is a reader-friendly McJournalism, with material in nuggets, created not out of any misplaced notion that the reader is stupid and needs spoon-feeding, but out of awareness of the reader’s severe time limitations and respect for her ability to choose what and how much she needs.

1995, Marshall Cook, Leads and Conclusions (Elements of Article Writing), Cincinnnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, pages 93–94:

(journalism, sometimes derogatory) A style of mainstream journalism characterized by superficiality, predictability and the lack of in-depth reporting, most commonly applied to increase profits and appeal to a wide readership.


Monk's Tale stanza

Monk's Tale stanza (plural Monk's Tale stanzas)

As used in The Monk's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

(poetry) An eight-line stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC.


middle article

(journalism) A light essay of less seriousness than editorial matter.


heptasyllable

(poetry) line of verse with seven syllables


enneasyllable

(poetry) line of verse with nine syllables


hamsterization

From hamster + -ization, in allusion to a hamster wheel.

Hamsterization / As newsrooms have shrunk, the job of the remaining reporters has changed. They typically face rolling deadlines as they post to their newspaper's website before, and after, writing print stories. Some are required to blog and tweet as well, some to produce videos.

2011, Steven Waldman, Information Needs of Communities, page 55:

One can see the possibility for limitless content for a 24/7 world: churnalism, hamsterization, the news cyclone—names to describe the condition keep coming.

2014, Nikki Usher, Making News at The New York Times, page 232:

Long-standing concerns about journalism's “stopwatch culture” and the negative impact of time pressures on newswork have been exacerbated in the digital age by growing demands for multi-platform technological proficiency, resulting in “hamsterization” of journalistic work.

2017, Bob Franklin, The Future of Journalism:

Dean Starkman famously likened this news work to the “hamster wheel,” and others have referred to it as the “hamsterization” of journalism, by which news workers have to continuously take on more digital labor.

2019, Victor Pickard, Democracy Without Journalism?, page 84:

(journalism, informal) A tendency whereby journalists are expected to take on increased responsibilities relating to 24/7 digital publishing.


MGN

(UK, journalism, historical) Initialism of Mirror Group Newspapers.


wilamowitzianus

Named after the German classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

(poetry, Ancient Rome) a meter consisting of two choriambs, used in Attic tragedy and in Roman comedy, used by Plautus and Terence.

Metres of Roman comedy#Wilamowitzianus
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff


(US, military, nautical, journalism) Abbreviation of journalist, petty officer, first class A journalist of the U.S. Navy holding the rating of first class petty officer, the highest class of regular petty officer.


blackout poem

(literature, poetry) A poem created from another text by selectively covering up words.


managing editor

managing editor (plural managing editors)

(journalism) A senior member of a publication's management team.


iota adscript

(Greek orthography) The iota subscript when written beside the affected letter rather than underneath it.


cream puff piece

cream puff piece (plural cream puff pieces)

cream puff pieces (plural)
creampuff piece (alternative)

In some cases, that was true; they thought I was just another beauty or fashion editor who would do a cream-puff piece about their products .

1995, Paula Begoun, Miriam Bulmer, Don't Go Shopping for Hair Care Products Without Me, Beginning Press, →ISBN, page 17:

This week includes criticism of our story on Laura Bush as a "cream puff piece" and praise for the new invention we featured which turns off other peoples' televisions, called TV-B-Gone.

2004 October 21, “Letters: Laura Bush, and TV-B-Gone”, in NPR:

While he was a player with the Florida Marlins a writer did a “cream puff piece” on him where Renteria told him his family calls him Ricky instead of Rich.

2012 December 6, Jesse Rogers, “Cubs Notes: No Rule 5 pick”, in ESPN:

(journalism, publishing, informal) A positive article or review that is largely based on opinion.


glossy magazine

glossy magazine (plural glossy magazines)

(journalism, publishing) A magazine printed on high-quality glossy paper.


lede to kum

(journalism) A placeholder for ‘lead to come’, spelled this way so it is not inadvertently thought to be part of the article.


newsbeat

(journalism) Synonym of beat (“the primary focus of a reporter's stories”).


drott-kvaett

(poetry) A poetic meter characterized by strict patterns of stave-rhyme and internal rhyme.


Skeltonics

(poetry) The irregular poetic meter used by John Skelton (c.1460–1529), English poet.


front-pager

(journalism) An article published on the front page.


press pass

(journalism) A card or document which grants some type of special privilege to journalists.


frauditor

A blend of fraud + auditor. The journalistic sense appeared in the early 2020s. The first appearance of the business sense is uncertain.

First Amendment auditor
First Amendment auditor

(US, journalism) An intimidating, phony or insincere First Amendment auditor.


pack journalist

pack journalist (plural pack journalists)

(journalism) A person engaged in pack journalism.


Hipponactean

We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; […]

1888, James Wood Davidson, The Poetry of the Future, New York, N.Y.: John B. Alden, page 30:

(poetry) A Hipponactean verse; (especially) a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse.


live shot

(journalism) A direct shot of a reporter or anchor in a scene or surroundings outside of the studio.


time copy

(journalism) A newspaper or periodical copy that is set in type and held for future use.


middle-market

(journalism) Catering to readers who seek entertainment as well as news coverage.


vowel rhyme

vowel rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural vowel rhymes)

Coordinate term: consonant rhyme


consonant rhyme

consonant rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural consonant rhymes)

(prosody, poetry) Synonym of consonance.


SOT

SOT (countable and uncountable, plural SOTs)

(broadcasting, journalism) Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.


total story time

total story time (countable and uncountable, plural total story times)

Coordinate term: total running time

(broadcasting, journalism) The total amount of time of a story or report, from the beginning by the announcer or newscaster until its end, including any tape or other material within it.


total running time

total running time (countable and uncountable, plural total running times)

(broadcasting, journalism) The total amount of time of the taped portion of the total story time.


Skeltonic

(poetry) Employing or relating to Skeltonics.


choseong

Borrowed from Korean 초성 (choseong, “initial sound”).

bor+

So, Choseong means the first/initial sound. Always located at the beginning of a syllable.

2024 January 29, Richard Lee, Mastering 399 syllables, Hangeul keeper, page 5:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant, consonant cluster, or silence in the syllable onset


jungseong

Borrowed from Korean 중성 (jungseong, “medial sound”).

[…] and one vowel called the medial (jungseong; syllable nucleus).

2018 March 7, Taebum Kim, Korean-English Dictionary 17000: 17,000 Words for Learning Korean, Core Voca, page 2:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a vowel or diphthong in the syllable nucleus


jongseong

Borrowed from Korean 종성 (jongseong, “final sound”).

A Korean syllable is divided into three parts: choseong (initial consonant), jungseong (peak vowel), and jongseong (final consonant).

2014 June 20, Korean Culture and Information Service (South Korea), Guide to Korean Culture: Korea's cultural heritage, 길잡이미디어, →ISBN, page 72:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant or consonant cluster in the syllable coda


photo kill

(journalism) An advisory stating that a previously issued photograph should no longer be used, for example because it was found to be fake or to violate a copyright.


down-page

(journalism, newspapers) Of an article or story, appearing in a relatively low position on the page.


nightfulness

He feels such delightfulness, stay out all-nightfulness, may I get tightfulness, / Which none can explain.

1894 April 2, chapter XIX, in A New England Woman, The Socrates Publishing Company, page 133:

They had thought themselves / in Hawaii when suddenly the pines, / trembling with nightfulness, / shook them out of their sibyllance.

1967 [1957], Frank O'Hara, “Romanze, or The Musical Students”, in Meditations in an Emergency, 2nd edition, Grove Press, page 20:

“And as this nightfulness appears to thin with distance, it should be entirely possible to pinpoint its epicenter? I find myself very much inclined to agree, Picnic. […]”

2016 September 2, Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night, Tom Doherty Associates, page 163:

Tonight the crescent moon is on its back / facing the darkness and I know that feeling / of nightfulness and the half ring it leaves / like part of a cupmark on a walnut table […]

2017, Julia McCarthy, “A Stab in the Dark”, in All the Names Between, Brick Books, page 5:

(rare, chiefly poetry) The state of being nightful.


verbivocovisual

Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.

In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against. This assessment, directed specifically at Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who visited Saint Petersburg and Moscow in February 1914, indicates the formalists' unwillingness to acknowledge the many poetic and artistic innovations shared by the Russian and Italian futurists. In the realm of Russian futurist book art and its Italian futurist analogue—the parole-in-libertà (words-in-freedom)—poetic language was transformed by the elimination of grammar and syntax, the experimentation with new arrangements of words and letters on the page, and the highlighting of language for its sonic expressivity. Both Russian futurist book art and the parole-in-libertà incorporated verbal, visual, and sonic elements into their art forms, although the Russians ventured much further into the verbivocovisual than did the Italians.

2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, The Getty Research Institute, →ISBN, page 68:

Alicia Genovese details very well the definition of avant-garde Brazilian concretist poetry of the 1960s. She did this through a Joycean neologism by which poetry was verbivocovisual in a synthesis of materials with which the poem operates: the verb (the uses of language), the sound (including the rhythm), and the space (the visual). [...] The play with language(s), the mixing of registers and working with space (large blank spaces between words), the cutting off of words like dance steps, and the androgynous enunciation "rió [...]" from Poem 39, are there in order to tense (crispar) the expectations, those of the representation and reception, and to tell us that there are neither final nor definitive statements/utterances.

2016, Martins, Laura M, “Per-verse Latin American Women Poets”, in Rodríguez, Ileana, Szurmuk, Mónica, editors, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 518:

We saw that the verbal, visual and hearing aspects together help to give a more genuine and relevant significance to the popular symbolism. In some frames, if we focus only on the verbal elements and constructions, we are not able to identify any carnivalization, for example. But by observing the three dimensions together as one, verbivocovisually, we see that the background sound gives dialogues a more grotesque or carnivalesque sense. Lastly, we conclude that popular symbolisms are embedded into the scene through the verbivocovisual language. These symbols have as their main goal to create a distance, a break from the real world within the narrative. At the same time, the plot reminds us a great deal of the real world, both anchored in the fight for power.

2023, Pais, Ana Carolina, “The Symbology of Popular Culture in Game of Thrones: Carnivalization and Tyrion's Wedding Party”, in Álvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso, Lozano, Fernando, Soldevila, Rosario Moreno, Rosillo-López, Cristina, editors, Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities, Vol. 1: Time, Space and Culture, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 239:

(poetry) Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.

Augusto de Campos
Concrete poetry
Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
experimental novel


inverted pyramid

en-noun

inverted pyramid (plural inverted pyramids)

(journalism) A structure of article-composition in which the key facts are given first (e.g. the headline and first paragraph) and auxiliary and circumstantial information is given in the following paragraphs.


-pody

From Ancient Greek -ποδία (-podía) from πούς (poús, “foot”).

(poetry) A unit or line consisting of a specified number of metrical feet


Panama Papers

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(business, journalism, crime) A trove of leaked documents that were published in 2016.


trend piece

By the time J. made the List, another variety had been identified and sanctioned by the junketeers. The trend piece.

2001, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days:

Instead of complaining that the author didn’t take into account that every individual is his or her own special flower, why not enjoy this lively, charming sketch of a workplace for what it is? An impressionistic and lighthearted rendering of a clever, mildly provocative idea. In other words, a trend piece.

2016 March 24, Leon Neyfakh, “In Defense of the Trend Piece”, in Slate, →ISSN:

The 31-year-old singer has generated countless headlines and trend pieces after the release of her sixth studio album in June, but she’s been working in the industry for more than 15 years now.

2024 July 26, Nadia Khomami, Lanre Bakare, “Charli xcx: from slow burn pop star to ‘brat’ US election influencer”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(journalism) An article explaining a trend or topical issue, often illustrated with anecdotes, statistics, and expert opinions.


back-pager

(journalism) An article published on the back page.


soft media

soft media (usually uncountable, plural soft medias)

(journalism) Any type of media organization that deals primarily with commentary, entertainment, arts and lifestyle.


not for attribution

(US, journalism) Indicating that a source must not be named.


Chocolate Factory

Coined by the UK technological newspaper The Register.

The Chocolate Factory has appealed the Epic verdict and also plans to challenge the DoJ's victory.

2024 August 15, Thomas Claburn, “Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious”, in The Register:


bus plunge

bus plunge (countable and uncountable, plural bus plunges)

We ran a bus plunge story on page 6 to fill the empty space so we could make deadline.

(journalism, idiomatic, often uncountable) A phrase often used in filler story headlines in print newspapers, prior to the adoption of computer-aided typesetting and publishing methods, as it filled out the usual width of a column in the eight-column layout then prevalent in the industry.

(often followed by "story") A specific instance of such a story.

(by extension) A similar example in other media of a filler story.

1935 January, “BUS PLUNGE INJURES SIX FROM NEW YORK; Vehicle Goes Over High Embankment in 'the Narrows' at Lewistown, Pa.”, in The New York Times (newspaper), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 2024-09-30, page 5

“One of them said to me, ‘We’re keeping up the bus plunges in your absence,’ or words to that effect,” says Siegal. Bus plunges had become an inside joke, with editors scouting the wires for new ones.

2006 November, Jack Shafer, “The Rise and Fall of the “Bus Plunge” Story”, in Slate, The Slate Group, archived from the original on 2024-06-25:

Here's the thing about newspapers: they can't publish blank space. You've gotta put something in there. So editors started putting in lots of "bus plunge" briefs because they were short, simple, and filled space easily.

2012 October, George Patrick, “Why Buses Always Plunge But Never Fall, Drop, Descend Or Plummet”, in Jalopnik, G/O Media, archived from the original on 2024-08-29:


Ceaușescu moment

Ceaușescu moment (plural Ceaușescu moments)

Ceaușescu moments (plural)
Ceausescu moment (alternative)

Coined by The Economist when comparing a speech by Tony Blair on 7 June 2000 with Nicolae Ceaușescu's last speech on 21 December 1989:
:But when the prime minister gulped and started to skip over chunks of his text in the face of the unexpected heckles and slow hand-claps from the unthreatening, decent folk of the Women's Institute, it was uncannily reminiscent of the moment in 1989 when the obedient masses of Bucharest startled Nicolae Ceausescu by their sudden decision to boo. The dictator on his balcony raised his hands, looked puzzled, stepped backwards—and the rest is history.

2000 June 8, “The Ceausescu moment”, in The Economist

2003 July 15, Boris Johnson Zimbabwe Hansard Vol. 409 Part 429 col. 6WH
One way or another, Mugabe will go and it will be sooner rather than later. It is a question for him: does he want to go like Ian Smith and continue to live in Harare or does he want a Ceausescu moment?

I myself became certain that Saddam had reached his fin de régime, or his Ceauşescu moment, when he celebrated his 100-percent win in the “referendum” of 2003 by releasing all the nonpolitical prisoners (the rapists and thieves and murderers who were his natural constituency) from Abu Ghraib.

2005 May 9, Christopher Hitchens, “Abu Ghraib Isn’t Guernica”, in Slate:

John McCririck, the racing pundit and former Big Brother contestant, later described it as a Ceausescu moment. Galloway had primed himself for adulation, only to stand above the crowd and find that his waving did not mute their howling.

2006 January 28, Shane Hegarty, “Profile George Galloway: Cat who didn't get the cream”, in The Irish Times:

The kind of civil upheaval that many abroad had expected and planned for with Fidel out of the picture simply did not transpire. There was no Ceausescu moment.

2009, Julia Sweig, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209:

The late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted to Hyundai founder Chung Ju Yung to having dreams where he was stoned to death in the public square by his people. What the Dear Leader feared was his "Ceauşescu moment" (which can now also be understood as a “Qaddafi moment”).

2012, Victor Cha, Nicholas Anderson, “North Korea after Kim Jong Il”, in North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 104:

2021 February 22, James Macpherson, “The Australian Open booing: Daniel Andrews’ Ceausescu moment?”, in Spectator Australia

Was the European Super League fiasco the Ceausescu moment for neoliberalism?

2021 April 24, David McWilliams, “A 30-year economic supercycle ended this week”, in The Irish Times:

2021 December 21, David Osland, “Ceaușescu moment for Boris Johnson at the World Darts Championship”, in Labour Hub

(chiefly politics, journalism) A moment when a public figure is booed in public; (by extension) a moment when a person or regime previously considered unassailable suddenly looks vulnerable; the outbreak of a revolution.


locus amoenus

Learned borrowing from Latin locus amoenus (“pleasant place”).

lbor

(literature, poetry) A literary motif of an idealised place of safety or comfort, typically comprising a meadow, trees (for shade) and water; sometimes evoking connotations of Eden or Elysium.


lead paragraph

(US, journalism) Synonym of lead (“the introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article”).


press cutting

(journalism) Synonym of clipping (“an article clipped from a newspaper or from a magazine”).


anti-Pindaric

Here the image of burning Aetna is used to characterize the anti-Pindaric.

2003, John T. Hamilton, Soliciting Darkness - Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition, page 209:

(poetry) Of a measure, where the strophe of one system answers to the strophe of another.


Pindaric ode

(poetry) A formal type of lyric poetry originating in Ancient Greece, consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.


mesode

From Ancient Greek μεσῳδός (mesōidós); see meso-, ode.

(poetry) Part of a lyric or choral ode which occurs between the strophe and antistrophe.


trashline

(journalism) A line of text prepended to an article, explaining why the piece has been withdrawn or corrected.