The following terms identify items that can be found in most newspapers. If possible, collect newspapers from several different places and compare them by locating as many of the following elements as you can find in each newspaper:

byline	name of an article's writer, printed at start of story
caption or cutline	explanation that accompanies photos
column	arrangement of type running in a line down a page
date	day the newspaper was printed
dateline	line at beginning of story that names the city in which the reported incident was written (not listed if it is a locally written story)
edition	localized and updated versions of the same-day paper
graphic	picture, map, graph, table, chart or symbol
headline	title above a newspaper article
jumpline	copy that tells the reader where a story is continued
lead	opening lines of a news story, usually first and sometimes second paragraph; usually contains most of the 5 W's and H (who, what, when, where, why and/or how)
masthead	also called the flag; nameplate of the newspaper as it appears on page 1 with day of week and issue of paper numbered from its first edition
page index	table of contents listed by topic and section/page
photographer	name of person who took a photo or the agency supplying it
place	city and state of the newspaper's location
ragged right	unjustified copy on the right side of a column, leaving more open white space on a page
section	pages collated together, usually covering specific topics
sidebar	short news story accompanying and presenting sidelights of a major news story
summary deck	capsule that adds detail to the headline
wire services	news-gathering agencies that distribute news and photographs to subscribing newspapers (Associated Press or AP, New York Times News Service, Reuters, Scripps Howard News Service, etc.