Which of these is a technique used in newspaper headlines?

Puns, Abreviation, Rhyming, Inventing New Words

What is a definition of convergence?

Different ways of accessing news

What is mainstream bias?

Favoritism of stories that everybody else is reporting

What is the gatekeeper's job?

They decide what counts as news

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1
Which newspaper is printed on pink paper?
Manchester Evening News
The Mirror
Daily Star
The Financial Times
2
Mrs Butler has sang for which famous person?
The Pope
The Queen
Prince Charles
Barack Obama
3
The Warrington Guardian is a...?
Rag
Local Newspaper
Tabloid
Broadsheet
4
Which of these is a broadsheet?
The Guardian
Daily Mirror
The Sun
Daily Star
5
Who regulates what is reported?
BBC
ITV
BBFC
Ofcom
6
A genre that includes more than one genre is called what?
Convergence
Convention
News
Hybrid
7
Which of these is an example of soft news?
Politics
Celebrity gossip
Natural disaster
Financial
8
How does an active audience access the news?
They download the app
They select their own news
The listen to the news
They read the news
9
Who wrote about the 4Cs?
Levi Strauss
Vladamir Propp
Young and Rubican
Gammon and Marshmont
10
Which of these is not a type of newspaper?
Local
Rag
Tabloid
Broadsheet
11
Which of these is a technique used in newspaper headlines?
Puns
Abreviation
Rhyming
Inventing New Words
12
What is a definition of convergence?
The BBC
Different ways of accessing news
Reading the sports pages
The writing of news stories
13
Which of these is not a news value?
Convergence
Elite Persons
Unexpectedness
Conflict
14
Succeeders are...?
anti-materialistic
seen as losers by other people
people that find it difficult to make ends meet
pillars of society
15
Which of these is a tabloid?
The Sun
The Observer
The Financial Times
The Guardian
16
The lead story should go where in a news broadcast?
First
Second
Finally
Third
17
Which of these is a 'red top?'
Financial Times
The Guardian
The Observer
The Sun
18
'Malaysian Airlines flight MH103 disappears suddenly.' Which news value is this?
Familiarity
Negativity
Unexpectedness
Consonance
19
PSB stands for
public service broadsheet
public service broadcasters
public service BBC
public service bank
20
What is mainstream bias?
Favoritism of dramatic and sensational events
Stories that favour 'us' and not 'them.'
Favoritism of stories that everybody else is reporting
Presentation of stories that favour one version
21
The masthead is another name for...?
Title
Headline
Picture
Article
22
Which of these is not part of the uses and gratifications theory?
Companionship
Personal Identity
Convergence
Entertainment
23
Mainstreamers are.....?
wannabes
people that follow a crowd
people with old fashioned values
people that try new things
24
'Two British people on board, feared dead.' What news value is used here?
Unexpectedness
Consonance
Familiarity
Negativity
25
What is the gatekeeper's job?
They decide what counts as news
The write the news stories
They work as security in the office
They choose what pictures get published

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