Not surprisingly, the US goes its own way on much journalistic lingo, using terms distinct from those employed in the same context by the rest of the English speaking world. Consider the "sidebar". Often, for a important story, there is material that is pertinent to an understanding of the story but that does not QUITE fit into it. A story, after all, is a narration, not a data dump. Anyway, the additional material that bears upon a story is often carried separately, by its side, or within a outline (a "box") nearby. In the US, this is called a "sidebar." In rest of Anglophone, it is a "boxout". Consider also the "subhead". This is an often italicized bit of material below the headline but before the lead paragraph ("lede graf"). In the US -- subhead. Rest of world -- standfirst. And the "copy editor"? This is the last person between the journalist writing a story and the general public about to read it. Th...