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Masthead is a list, usually found on the editorial page of a newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 or magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
, of the members of the newspaper's editorial board
Editorial board

The editorial board is a group of people, usually at a print publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publication's editorials will take....
. If no editorial board exists, the masthead will often feature a list of top news staff members. Some mastheads also include information such as the publication's founding date, slogan, logo and contact information.

The term masthead is borrowed from the shipping industry, when a brass plate would be affixed to the main mast of a commercial sailing vessel.






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Masthead is a list, usually found on the editorial page of a newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 or magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
, of the members of the newspaper's editorial board
Editorial board

The editorial board is a group of people, usually at a print publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publication's editorials will take....
. If no editorial board exists, the masthead will often feature a list of top news staff members. Some mastheads also include information such as the publication's founding date, slogan, logo and contact information.

The term masthead is borrowed from the shipping industry, when a brass plate would be affixed to the main mast of a commercial sailing vessel. This plate contained the name of the owner or owners of a ship.

Sample mastheads

  • for The New Republic
    The New Republic

    The New Republic is an United States magazine of politics and the arts. It is published semimonthly and has a circulation of approximately 60,000....
     magazine


The term MASTHEAD is often used to refer to the LOGO / name of the magazine on the front cover

Incorrect use of the word on websites


The word masthead or imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 is sometimes used on international websites. This is usually a mistake based on the incorrect translation of German websites, because in German speaking countries laws require a website to have an "Impressum
Impressum

An Impressum is the German language word for a type of page common to European print media and carried forward as a common webpage title for European websites....
" (legals, website details) in the way newspapers do. A better translation from the German "Impressum" may be "Impressum - Legal Disclosure," or "Impressum - Legal Notice." This retains the original German as required by law while telling English speakers much more than "masthead" or "imprint."