The IPTC NewsCodes Working Group has now released the Q4 update to Media Topics, IPTC’s subject taxonomy used for classifying news content.

The main changes were made to the religion branch as part of our regular review cycle, and to sport events after discussing the terms with the Sports Content Working Group. This means that we have retired 29 terms and added 15 others. So in total we currently have 1,159 active terms in the vocabulary.

All new terms were created in en-GB and en-US versions, and have translations in Norwegian thanks to NTB. Other language translations will be added as they are contributed.

Below is a list of all of the changes.

New terms:

• medtop:20001338 education policy
• medtop:20001339 wellness
• medtop:20001340 mental wellbeing
• medtop:20001341 regular competition
• medtop:20001342 playoff championship
• medtop:20001343 final game
• medtop:20001344 Catholicism
• medtop:20001345 bar and bat mitzvah
• medtop:20001346 canonisation
• medtop:20001347 Shia Islam
• medtop:20001348 Sunni Islam
• medtop:20001349 atheism and agnosticism
• medtop:20001350 Eid al-Adha
• medtop:20001351 Hasidism
• medtop:20001352 Hanukkah

Retired terms:

• medtop:20000660 ecumenism
• medtop:20000662 Old Catholic
• medtop:20000665 Anglican
• medtop:20000666 Baptist
• medtop:20000667 Lutheran
• medtop:20000668 Mennonite
• medtop:20000669 Methodist
• medtop:20000670 Reformed
• medtop:20000671 Roman Catholic
• medtop:20000672 concordat
• medtop:20000675 Freemasonry
• medtop:20000687 interreligious dialogue
• medtop:20000689 religious event
• medtop:20000701 temple
• medtop:20001109 continental championship
• medtop:20001110 continental cup
• medtop:20001111 continental games
• medtop:20001112 international championship
• medtop:20001113 international cup
• medtop:20001114 international games
• medtop:20001115 national championship
• medtop:20001116 national cup
• medtop:20001117 national games
• medtop:20001118 regional championship
• medtop:20001119 regional cup
• medtop:20001120 regional games
• medtop:20001121 world championship
• medtop:20001122 world cup
• medtop:20001123 world games

Label changes:

• medtop:12000000 religion and belief -> religion
• medtop:20000128 international court or tribunal -> international court and tribunal
• medtop:20000423 environmental politics -> environmental policy
• medtop:20000458 mental health and disorders -> mental health
• medtop:20000657 religious belief -> belief systems
• medtop:20000661 Mormon -> Mormonism
• medtop:20000663 Orthodoxy -> Christian Orthodoxy
• medtop:20000664 Protestant -> Protestantism
• medtop:20000674 cult and sect -> cult
• medtop:20000690 religious festival or holiday -> religious festival and holiday
• medtop:20000697 religious facilities -> religious facility
• medtop:20000702 religious institutions and state relations -> relations between religion and government

Definition changes:

• medtop:12000000 religion
• medtop:20000117 arbitration and mediation
• medtop:20000423 environmental policy
• medtop:20000657 belief systems
• medtop:20000658 Buddhism
• medtop:20000659 Christianity
• medtop:20000661 Mormonism
• medtop:20000664 Protestantism
• medtop:20000673 Confucianism
• medtop:20000674 cult
• medtop:20000676 Hinduism
• medtop:20000677 Islam
• medtop:20000678 Jainism
• medtop:20000679 Judaism
• medtop:20000680 nature religion
• medtop:20000681 Zoroastrianism
• medtop:20000682 Scientology
• medtop:20000683 Shintoism
• medtop:20000684 Sikhism
• medtop:20000685 Taoism
• medtop:20000686 Unificationism
• medtop:20000690 religious festival and holiday
• medtop:20000691 Christmas
• medtop:20000692 Easter
• medtop:20000693 Pentecost
• medtop:20000694 Ramadan
• medtop:20000695 Yom Kippur
• medtop:20000696 religious ritual
• medtop:20000697 religious facility
• medtop:20000698 church
• medtop:20000699 mosque
• medtop:20000700 synagogue
• medtop:20000702 relations between religion and government
• medtop:20000704 pope
• medtop:20000705 religious text
• medtop:20000706 Bible
• medtop:20000708 Torah
• medtop:20001271 All Saints Day
• medtop:20001273 baptism

Hierarchy moves:

• medtop:20000423 environmental policy moved from medtop:06000000 environment to medtop:20000621 government policy
• medtop:20000479 healthcare policy moved from medtop:07000000 health to medtop:20000621 government policy
• medtop:20000480 government health care moved from medtop:20000479 healthcare policy to medtop:07000000 health
• medtop:20000483 health insurance moved from medtop:20000479 healthcare policy to medtop:07000000 health
• medtop:20000690 religious festival and holiday moved from medtop:20000689 religious event to medtop:12000000 religion
• medtop:20000696 religious ritual moved from medtop:20000689 religious event to medtop:12000000 religion
• medtop:20001177 Olympic Games moved from medtop:20001123 world gamesto medtop:20001108 sport event
• medtop:20001178 Paralympic Games moved from medtop:20001123 world games to medtop:20001108 sport event
• medtop:20001239 exercise and fitness moved from medtop:10000000 lifestyle and leisure to medtop:20001339 wellness
• medtop:20001293 streaming service moved from medtop:20000045 mass media to medtop:20000304 media

As always, the Media Topics vocabularies can be viewed in the following ways:

• In a collapsible tree view
• As a downloadable Excel spreadsheet
• On one page on the cv.iptc.org server
• In machine readable formats such as RDF/XML and Turtle using the SKOS vocabulary format: see the cv.iptc.org guidelines document for more detail.

For more information on IPTC NewsCodes in general, please see the IPTC NewsCodes Guidelines.