Nut graph, the Glossary
In article structure for journalism, the nut graph or nut graf (short for "nutshell paragraph") is a paragraph that explains the context of the story "in a nutshell".[1]
Table of Contents
8 relations: Article structure, Five Ws, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Journalism, Lead paragraph, Paragraph, Poynter Institute, Sound bite.
- Journalism terminology
- Newswriting
Article structure
Article structures in journalism encompass various formats to present information in news stories and feature articles.
See Nut graph and Article structure
Five Ws
The Five Ws is a checklist used in journalism to ensure that the first paragraph (the "lead") contains all the essential points of a story.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.
Lead paragraph
A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas. Nut graph and lead paragraph are journalism terminology.
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Paragraph
A paragraph is a self-contained unit of discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea.
Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
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Sound bite
A sound bite or soundbite is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often used to promote or exemplify the full length piece.
See also
Journalism terminology
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- Above the fold
- Beat reporting
- Boxout
- Death knock
- Doorstepping
- Electronic news gathering
- Evergreen (media)
- False title
- Feature story
- Fixer (person)
- Full Ginsburg
- Glossary of journalism
- Gotcha journalism
- Hack writer
- Headline
- Hot take
- Hyperlocal
- Journaille
- Lead paragraph
- Leaktivism
- Listicle
- Lupara bianca
- Man bites dog
- Media scrum
- Morgue file
- Newshole
- No comment
- Nut graph
- Page 3
- Political handicapping
- Press gaggle
- Puffery
- Reverse ferret
- Sidebar (publishing)
- Silly season
- Spike (journalism)
- Stealth edit
- Stop press
- Stringer (journalism)
- Tick-tock (journalism)
- Truth sandwich
Newswriting
- Africa Check
- BLUF (communication)
- Blind item
- Bus plunge story
- Capsule review
- Churnalism
- Creative journalism
- Creative nonfiction
- Fact-Check Ghana
- Fact-checking
- Feature story
- Gonzo journalism
- Inverted pyramid (journalism)
- Journalese
- New Journalism
- News style
- Nut graph
- Presstitute
- Strange to Relate
- The wrong type of snow
- Wikipedia and fact-checking
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_graph
Also known as Nut graf, Nut paragraph, Nut shelled, Nut sheller, Nut shellers, Nut shelling, Nut-shelled, Nut-sheller, Nut-shellers, Nut-shelling, Nutgraf, Nutgraph, Nutshelled, Nutsheller, Nutshellers, Nutshelling, Nutshellism, Nutshellisms.