VocabularyFile.doc

Vocabulary File
• News agency – an organization that collects and distributes news items.
e.g. AP (Associate Press) – 美 (国) 联 (合通讯) 社
Reuters –
(英国) 路透社
AFP(Agence France Presse (=French Press Agency) – 法 (国) 新 (闻) 社
• Newspaper – a printed publication (usu. daily or weekly) containing news, advertisements, etc.
• Newsreel – a short cinema film of news and current affairs.
• Newsletter – an informal printed report issued periodically to the members of an organization etc.
• Newscast – a radio or television broadcast of news reports.
• Newsflash – a single item of important news broadcast separately and often interrupting other programmes.
• News Conference (also press conference) – a meeting at which someone makes an official statement to and answers questions of a group of journalists.
• Journalist – a person employed to write for, edit, or report for a newspaper, a journal, or news cast.
• Reporter – a person employed to report news for the media.
• Correspondent – a person employed to contribute materials for journal or broadcast from a particular area or on a particular subject.
• Newsman – a newspaper reporter.
• Newspaperman – a journalist
• Newsreader – a person who reads out broadcast news bulletins.
• Presenter – a person who introduces the different parts of a television ore radio show.
• Anchorman – a person, who coordinates activities, introduces mews reports, especially as a compare in a broadcast.
• Photojournalist – a person who reports news through the use of photographs.
• Cameraman – a person who operates a camera professionally for film or television.
• News agent – a person who sells newspapers or journals.
• News boy – a boy who sells or delivers newspapers.
• News-stand – a stall for the sale of newspapers.