News Organization

Types of content other than hard news:

• Analysis: discussion of the trends, data, or personalities behind hard-news stories. 
• Feature: in-depth, magazine-length story with in-depth analysis
• Editorial: unsigned piece giving the opinion of the organization's editorial board
• Op-Ed: "opposite the editorial page" expresses the opinions of an outside named writer 
• Column: opinion essay by a writer who regularly writes for the paper or a syndicate
• Sidebar: a story that accompanies the main news story, focusing on a particular aspect of an event.

A few broadcast titles:

• Anchor One in the television studio who ties together the newscast by reading the news and providing transitions from one story to the next. 
• Executive Producer The television executive with overall responsibility for the look of the television newscast. 
• Field Producer Behind-the-scenes television reporter who often does much of the field work for a network's on-camera correspondents. 
• Correspondent A television reporter who delivers the news on camera. Network correspondents may or may not do the actual news-gathering for their stories. 
• Show Producer Television news specialists who produce individual newscasts and report to the executive producer.

A typical organization chart for a traditional newspaper:





Digital Natives

• Huffington Post
• Politico
• Buzzfeed