In its weekly newsletter to members, Associated Press Newsfeatures offered a glossary of shoptalk. Samples:
Block Buster: story written from the files.
Think piece: story written without the files.
Color piece: one fact, four adjectives.
Column: no facts, five adjectives.
Objectivity: New York rewrote the lead.
Subjectivity: Kansas City rewrote Dallas which rewrote Houston.
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