Deadline

How it is used

Daily life in a newsroom is built around deadlines. Reporters meet, miss or work to a deadline, and they are often on deadline in the evening. Print papers have fixed press deadlines; online outlets work to constant rolling deadlines.

Example sentences

1. The deadline for the print edition is 10 p.m., so we need your copy by nine.

2. I can't talk now, I'm on deadline.

Common collocations

• meet a deadline
• miss a deadline
• tight deadline
• on deadline
• press deadline

Related terms

• newsroomThe office where journalists and editors of a newspaper, broadcaster or news website work together to gather, write and publish the news; also the team itself.
• copyThe text of a news story or article that a journalist writes and sends to be edited and published.
• editorA journalist who decides what is published or broadcast and checks, corrects and improves other people's work; also the person in charge of a whole publication or section.
• breaking newsNews about an important event that is happening right now or has only just happened, reported as soon as it is known and updated as more details come in.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• deadline · Business English
• deadline · Project Management
• deadline · Office & Administration

More terms: Editing and the Newsroom

• editor-in-chief
• copy editor