Journalism & Media vocabulary · Interviews and Quotes
Transcript
Meaning in journalism & media, with examples
/ˈtrænskrɪpt/nounCommon term
In journalism & media, transcript means: A written or printed copy of exactly what was said in an interview, speech, broadcast or recording.
In Turkish: deşifre, döküm, transkript
How it is used
Reporters make or check transcripts to quote accurately; many now use automatic transcription tools and then correct the text. Outlets sometimes publish a full transcript of an important interview. The verb is transcribe.
Example sentences
Send me the transcript of the interview so I can check the quotes.
It took me two hours to transcribe the recording of the meeting.
Common collocations
full transcript
interview transcript
read the transcript
transcribe a recording
Related terms
interviewA meeting or conversation in which a journalist asks someone questions to get information, opinions or quotes for a story or programme; also the published or broadcast result.
quoteThe exact words that someone said or wrote, repeated in a story inside quotation marks; as a verb, to repeat someone's words and say who said them.
intervieweeThe person who answers the questions in an interview, as opposed to the interviewer, who asks them.
accuracyThe quality of being correct in every fact, name, number and quote, which is the first duty of a journalist in most codes of practice.
