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Slug

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, slug means: A short working identifier used by a newsroom to track a story during production.

In Turkish: haber takip kodu, çalışma başlığı

How it is used

Use for an internal story identifier; it can differ from both the published headline and a website's URL slug.

Example sentences

  1. The flood report is filed under the slug RIVER, not under its final headline.

    A stable identifier lets the newsroom find changing versions of the story.

  2. Check the slug before attaching the photographs to the housing investigation.

    Matching identifiers prevents material from being attached to the wrong assignment.

Common collocations

  • assign a slug
  • story slug
  • file under a slug
  • copyThe text of a news story or article that a journalist writes and sends to be edited and published.
  • 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.

More terms: Editing and the Newsroom

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