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News hole

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, news hole means: The space available for editorial material after advertisements and other fixed elements are allocated.

In Turkish: habere ayrılabilen sayfa alanı

How it is used

Print newsroom jargon; it describes available editorial space rather than a missing story.

Example sentences

  1. A late advertisement reduced the news hole by half a page.

    Commercial space allocation directly changes the room available for reporting.

  2. The editor shortened two reports to fit the smaller news hole.

    Copy length must be adjusted to the available print space.

Common collocations

  • shrink the news hole
  • available news hole
  • fill the news hole
  • 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.

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