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1
Newspapers, magazines and broadcast news operations provide what percentage of the factual information on the Internet?
78%
60%
100%
85%
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Which news driver profiles people who are in the public eye?
Timeliness
Proximity
Human interest
Prominence
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What is soft news?
News that’s based on opinions, not facts
News that’s circulated on the Internet, not on paper
News that is entertaining or interesting
advice columns
4
When writing an article for a school newspaper, whether or not your article is offensive to anyone must be considered.
False
True
5
The inverted pyramid style of journalism puts the ___________________ facts in the first paragraph.
least important
Names and dates
first
Most important
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What is a journalist's duty?
To report on things as fast as possible so they are the first ones
To seek the truth and share a fair & comprehensive report
To write a good article which has a lot of details
To get all of the facts so that the story will be entertaining
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To be ____________________ is to keep an open mind and report both sides of an issue.
objective
quiet
subjective
biased
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The farther from home, the greater the news value.
False
True
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What is fabrication?
Using facts older than 2 years
Potecting someone's image
Not including certain facts
Making up details within your writing
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What makes a story "newsworthy"?
News drivers
The story has to be published.
The story has to be about a celebrity.
The story has to have balanced sources.
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Which Constitutional Amendment protects the Freedom of the Press?
The first amendment
The tenth amendment
The fifth amendment
The second amendment
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What is a source?
A person that a reporter interviews for the story
A published news source
A published online news source
A reporter resource that lists all of the rules of writing
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What is Journalism?
A hard thing to do
The study of writing in journals
An American business practice
The reporting and publishing of the news
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What is an editorial?
The job that reporter's get when they are promoted
A part of the writing process
An opinion piece published on a special page
The process when an editor works with an unfinished story
