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FBLA journalism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a freelance writer? | a writer paid to work on different jobs or projects without being a permanent employee |
| A news reporter's job description is best described by: | gathering information to further develop a story that is newsworthy for all citizens. |
| The impact of the use of _____ with broadcast journalism, specifically, is the connection that the journalists are having with their readers. They are getting the readers involved to express their opinions, making it more engaging for the reader | social media |
| Features often: | have a personal slant and are written in an individual style |
| According to AP style, which state abbreviation is correct?Haw. A) Haw. B) Ia. C) Alas. D) Ala. | Ala. |
| What is not another name for a graphic in a newscast that displays an interviewer's name and title? | chroma key |
| What does FOI stand for? | Freedom of Information |
| You are asked to cover the mayor drowning at a nearby lake. Your photographer exclusively gets video of the mayor's body in a body bag. Should you use the video in your package? | Depends, its best to ask a manager for permission and make sure to blur the bag |
| Which Supreme Court Case in 1988 gave schools the right to refuse to support speech that was "inconsistent with the shared valued of civilized social order? | Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier |
| If a news script has not previously been read before it makes its way to the airwaves this is called what? | Cold Copy |
| What is the primary purpose of journalism | To give people the information they need to make better decisions about their lives and function in a democratic society . |
| What is the difference between a direct lede and an indirect lede? | Direct ledes are always succinct and define the theme immediately. Indirect ledes hold off on telling the reader what a story is about. |
| What is a lede? | A lede is the first sentence of your writing |
| In 2013, what media company purchased Al Gore's network, Current TV? | Al Jazeera |
| What is the term for journalists who are attached to military units? | embedded journalists |
| _____ journalism is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. | Yellow |
| Web logs (blogs) | Internet journals written by reporters with specialty fields or interests; blogs also may be written by citizen journalists |
| Bureau | A news-gathering office maintained by a newspaper somewhere other tan its central location. Papers may have bureaus in the next county; in the state capital; in Washington, D.C.; or in foreign countries |
| Byline | A line identifying the author of a story |
| Citizen Journalism | A new form of media in which citizens actively participate in gathering and writing information, often in the form of news |
| Closed-ended question | A direct question designed to draw a specific response--for example, "Will you be a candidate?" |
| Contextual advertising | Advertising on a website that is directed to likely users of that site based on demographic profiles |
| Convergence | merging of media and platforms |
| Copy | What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy |
| Copy desk | The newspaper desk at which the final editing of stories is done, headlines are written and pages are designed |
| source | a person who supplies reporters with information |
| newspaper | publication that contains information about current events, features on different topics and advertisements |
| penny press | newspapers that were named after the cost, 1 cent |
| inverted pyramid | journalism style that puts the most important facts in the first paragraph |
| yellow journalism | mid-1890s journalism that represented sensationalism, screaming headlines and cheap melodrama |
| muckraking | the beginning of investigative journalism; journalists took on the role of promoting social responsibility investigating corruption, especially in big business, social institutions and politics |
| First Amendment | the First Amendment to the Constitution, which provides the rights to free speech and free press |
| censorship | the prevention, or attempted prevention, of printing or broadcasting materials that are considered by some to be objectable |
| mass media | refers to all the channels of communication that reach a large audience |
| Golden Age of Radio | refers to the 1930s when Americans listened to radios for music, drama, comedy, variety shows and news |
| network | a group of stations that broadcasts the same programs at the same time |
| multiple platforms | the news organization has both a print publication and an Internet site; media through which consumers obtain news, such as through newspapers and news magazines, television, radio, and the Internet |
| multiple media | may include print, broadcast and Internet; adding audio and video elements to a print story |
| objective | to keep an open mind and report both sides of an issue |
| reporter | a journalist who gathers facts and prepares information to send out by mass media to the people who will read or listen to it; also called a correspondent |
| correspondent | journalist who gathers facts and prepares information to send out by mass media to the people who will read or listen to it; also called a reporter |
| gatekeeper | editors, producers, publishers and other managers who decide what will get into the paper, onto the Web site or onto the nightly news broadcast |
| ethics | the moral principals that govern the appropriate conduct for individuals and organizations |
| jargon | language that pertains to one's business |
| Spilt Screen | In television, when you have two images on the same screen at the same time, that is called a what? |
| Layout | The Completed Page Drawing - Or Page Dummy |
| Omni-Directional | A microphone which picks up sound from all directions is called a: |
| Digest | A Magazine - Periodical - Etc - That Summarizes News Of Current Events |
| Pulitzer Prize | The Most Prestigious Of Journalism Awards. It Was Established By Joseph Pulitzer And Is Administered By Columbia University |
| Anecdote | A Short Account Of A Particular Incident Or Event - Especially Of An Interesting Or Amusing Nature - Or An Obscure Historical Or Biographical Account |
| Spot News | A Timely Report Of An Event That Is Unfolding At The Moment |
| Stylebook | A Book Of Rules On Grammar - Punctuation - Capitalization And Abbreviation In Newspaper Text. The Ap And Upi Publish Similar Style Books That Are Used By Most Papers. |
| 4. Who was the editor of the first United States newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick? | Benjamin Harris |
| 5. How many sentences are in most lede paragraphs? | one or two |
| 7. Defamation by written words or by communication in some other tangible form is known as: | Libel |
| Which editor has the lowest rank in the newsroom? | Copy editor |
| According to the AP Style Guide, the following rules for 'last' are correct, EXCEPT: | The word last is necessary to convey the notion of most recent when the name of a month is used. |
| A plaintiff in a libel suit involving a statement published in the mass media usually must prove six things: (1) identification, (2) publication, (3) falsity, (4) injury, (5) fault, and (6) | defamation |
| An article of inordinate and suffocating length produced to gratify the author and/or aspirations of the news agency is known as | Goat-Choker |
| Information about a surprise event or breaking news whether on or off the record is known as a: | tip-off' : |
| What is the rule called that dictates your subjects' placement in a photograph? | Rule of Third |
| Playing video reports on web pages or print journalists recording interviews for broadcast online is an example in journalism of: | Convergence |
| Wikinews | A wiki on which users can post or update information in news format |
| wiki | A type of website that allows users to add or alter content. Wikipedia, for example, is a user-written and user-updated encyclopedia. |
| webcast | |
| URL | Short for Uniform Resource Locator, the address of an internet site. |
| Truth | Correspondence to fact or reality. Truth is the best defense against libel |
| teleprompter | A mechanical or electronic device that projects broadcast copy next to the television camera lens so that a newscaster can read it while appearing to look straight into the lens. |
| Summary Lead | |
| Soft News | Stories about trends, personalities or lifestyles. The time element usually is not important. See also hard news. |
| Soft lead | A lead that uses a quote, anecdote or other literary device to attract the reader. See also hard lead. |
| slug | A word that identifies a story as it is processed through the newspaper plant or on broadcast news. A slug is usually placed in the upper left-hand corner of each take of a newspaper story. See also take. |
| situation ethics | The philosophy that recognizes that a set of rules can be broken if circumstances indicate that the community would be served better by breaking them. |
| Sidebar | A secondary story that is run alongside a major story on the same topic. A story about a disaster, for example, may have a sidebar that tells what happened to a single victim. |
| Shield law | Legislation giving journalists the right to protect the identity of sources |
| Qualified privilege | The right to report what government officials say or do in their official capacities if the report is full, fair and accurate. Also called conditional privilege. |
| profile | A story intended to reveal the personality or character of an institution or person. |
| Short for portable document format. An electronic facsimile of a printed document | |
| Open-records law | A state or federal law guaranteeing public access to many-but not all- kinds of government records |
| Open-meetings law | A state or federal law guaranteeing public access to meetings of public officials. Also called a sunshine law |
| Op-ed page | The page opposite the editorial page, frequently reserved for columns, letters to the editor and personality profiles. |
| not for attribution | An expression indicating that information may not be ascribed to its source |
| media fragmentation | The impact of the internet and digital media on traditional media, such as newspapers and broadcast television. The addition of many new websites and social media divides or fragments the audience into smaller parts |
| hyper text | A Web document coded in HTML |
| Hyperlocal | Information that is intensely local in its emphasis. |
| Hard lead | A lead that reports a new development or a newly discovered fact. See also soft lead |
| Graf | A shortened form of paragraph, as in "Give me two grafs on that fire." |
| Futures file | A collection-filed according to date- of newspaper stories, letters, notes and other information to remind editors about stories to assign. See also tickler |
| Classified and retail advertising still account for: | 80 percent of business revenue |
| Which of the following is considered a wire service? | The associated press |
| According to the AP Style Guide, which of the following is the appropriate abbreviation for "Weightlifting" when writing on Sports events? | WEI |
| You just finished interviewing a source. When you log on to Instagram, you notice that they requested to follow you. You should: | Accept the request and invite them to be a friend of the main media Instagram account too. |
| An important funding source for journalism and media is advertising revenue. In general, which media source is the MOST expensive for advertisers: | TV |
| The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is an independent entity that disperses federal money for public broadcasting and is a: | Private non-profit corporation authorized by Congress |
| SLR | single lens reflex |
| Most public broadcasters get the majority of their funding from all of the following EXCEPT: | Donors |
| Public relations specialists do all of the following EXCEPT: | Sell advertisements |
| Who is not a historical figure of journalism? | Andrew mulligan. Popular ones are Jospeh Pulizer, Fredrick Douglass, and William Randolph Hearst |
| An editorial board is defined as: | Group of people at a publication who strategize and determine the tone and direction |
| Which government agency requires pharmaceutical ads contain disclosures when broadcast on TV: | FDA |
| Which headline is most consistent with AP Style in voice, structure, and format? | President announces budget; Congress to discuss it. |
| A short audio or video segment produced to advertise an upcoming news bulletin or news items is called a(n): | Teaser |
| Social media is allowing users to participate in generating news like never before. Pew Research found all of the following to be true EXCEPT: | Less than 10% of online users commented about the news |
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