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Glossary Journalism & Media

Byline

The line naming who wrote a piece. It signals responsibility for the reporting as much as authorship of the words.

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Cold storage

Keeping private keys on a device that never touches the internet. It defends against remote theft…

GPU

A graphics processing unit: a chip built to run many calculations in parallel. Originally for rendering…

Machine learning

Building software that improves at a task by finding patterns in data rather than by being…

API

An application programming interface: a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for…

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