Intro to Journalism: Exam 1

The term "podcast" means

A portable on-demand video/audio

Which is true about access to filings in civil and criminal court cases?

All filings are open to the public, except in juvenile cases.

When should you check past stories on file or online databases for additional information when writing a story?

Before you begin reporting or, in the case of breaking news, before you begin writing.

The EyeTrack study showed that people are drawn to which type of visual first when looking at a print publication?

Color photographs

What statement is most true about observation?

Details from observation are more common in feature stories, but they also can enhance breaking news stories.

The traditional reporting principles for print and broadcast news include all of the following EXCEPT what?

Find sources only through social media.

Which sentence is the correct attribution for broadcast news?

Fire officials say a lighted cigarette caused the fire that destroyed a home on Main Street.

Researchers at the University of Colorado found which of the following about how college students used media on their smartphones?

For text stories, most people stopped reading before the fourth paragraph

Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Walsh gave what advice about conducting interviews?

If a source refuses to answer a question, rephrase it and ask it again later in the interview.

A news story focusing on the loss of thousands of lives in a natural disaster is most clearly linked with which quality of news?

Impact

Social media have resulted in all of the following changes in news delivery EXCEPT

Increased company profits as readers and viewers shared digital content

Which of the following is NOT a change that the news industry has seen with increased online news delivery?

Increased use of linear story structure

Which statement is true about plagiarism?

It is plagiarism if you paraphrase information from another publication and you don't attribute it.

Which of the following is true for telephone interviews?

It is usually not necessary to use icebreakers.

Choose the sentence that is punctuated correctly.

Martin Luther King Jr. gave a famous speech, "I have a dream."

Media convergence is best defined as

Merging of print, broadcast, and online media

Why were the events surrounding the Virginia Tech shooting a pivotal moment in the use of social media?

News organizations realized they could use Facebook and other sites to connect with sources to tell a breaking story.

In an email interview, what is the optimal number of questions?

No more than 5.

Changes in recent decades, especially in blogs, citizen journalism and social media, have had what effect on the journalistic concept of objectivity?

Objectivity has decreased, and more analysis is present in stories

What are two sites that journalists can use for curation of photos, Tweets, posts and items about a news story on a composite Web page?

Pinterest and Storify

Which of these is NOT a good tip for reporting with social media?

Post photos or videos you find on social media sites immediately.

Which of the following word list contains five common qualities of news

Proximity, timeliness, conflict, human interest, and unusual nature

Which of the following is a rule for writing a good Twitter post?

Put the strongest words at the beginning

In online media, the letters "RSS" stand for

Really simple syndication

Which statement is most true about how you should check background and prepare before an interview?

Search online databases, official websites, printed materials and news clippings to find information.

Which is NOT a question typically answered in a summary lead?

So what?

Jayson Blair worked for what paper when he was found to have fabricated stories?

The New York Times

Which of these sentences is in active voice?

The dog jumped on the stove, starting the fire.

Which statement is in passive voice?

Three students were arrested by the police.

Which is the BEST rule for the wording of attribution?

Use "said" for humans and "according to" for reports and other objects.

Which statement is true about differences in writing for print and broadcast?

Visuals are more important in broadcast writing than in print writing.

The term "blog" is a shortened version of what term?

Web log

How do social media differ from traditional media?

With traditional media, people are contributors; with social media, they are receivers.

Which statement is true?

You don't need to attribute information if it is common knowledge or indisputable.

What is true about verifying information gathered from social media?

You should try to corroborate the information from a Twitter account by checking with other users.

Choose the best definition for the word "blog."

a personal journal or column posted on the Web

What is Technorati?

a search engine that indexes blogs and tracks posts to them

"Mojo" is

a term for mobile journalists equipped with multiple devices who work primarily out of the newsroom.

Janet Cooke's Pulitzer Prize was returned because she was found to have ________ in her story about Jimmy.

fabricated information

When writing a news story, reporters use information

from interviews, direct observation and printed sources.

According to the "trust-o-meter" offered by Stephen C. Miller of The New York Times, which offers the most credible Web information?

government sites

A hard news story is called that because it is

hard for people to read because of the death and destruction included.

When writing for mobile media, one of the most important points to stress in stories is

immediacy.

The Radio Television Digital News Association says that when getting information from online sources,

information gathered online should be confirmed before broadcast, as is the case with any other form of news gathering.

What is the structure of most basic news stories?

lead, nut graph (if needed), lead quote, supporting facts, more quotes and comments, additional information, ending

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

often requires that information is blacked out or cut out when records are released.

The best questions in interviews are

short and focused on one topic.

In finding sources, Google and other search engines

should be used in conjunction with traditional directories and guides.

A nut graph

states the main point of the story, typically before the third to fifth graph.

The most common lead for a hard-news story is a ________ lead.

summary

What are icebreakers?

techniques to use at the start of an interview to put the subject at ease

The best story structure for mobile media is

the inverted pyramid.

The focus of a story is

the main idea of the story.

If a source tells you not to use his or her name after an interview has been completed, you should

try to understand what the issue is and so you can discuss what the source is uncomfortable sharing.

When using sources from a member of a minority group, it's best to

use labels if the ethnic or racial background of a source is relevant to the story.

The Denver Post, the Hartford Courant and the Tuscaloosa News all won Pulitzer Prizes because they

used social media expertly to cover disasters in their communities.

When Mark Potter of "NBC Nightly News" speaks of "sponsorship" in reporting, he means

using a source he knows and trusts to sponsor or refer him to other credible sources.

Crowdsourcing is

using large groups of people to gather or produce content through social media

The questions that elicit the most quotes and anecdotes start with all of the following EXCEPT

when

"Off the record" means that

you may not use information from the source even if you don't identify the person.