Test #1 (Chapters 1-3) Study Guide
I. The Challenge of Journalism
Find the best answer to each question and fill in the correct response on the Scantron sheet.
1) What is a niche audience?
2) What is the traditional definition of journalism?
3) In journalism who or what is the gatekeeper?
4) What do we mean by “blaming the messenger”?
5) Which if these are NOT part of public journalism?
6) In the future news will be delivered___________.
7) The school publication that best serves as a matter of record is___.
8) A role that is more likely for a high school newspaper than for a big
city paper is____ .
9) A role for a publication that involves public relations is_____.
10) In the advocacy model, journalism serves to_____.
11) In the market model, journalistic content depends on _______.
12) In the trustee model, journalists _________.
13) Public journalism is different from other trustee models in that:
14) To produce good public journalism, you should _____.
II. Laws, Ethics, and Policy
15) What is libel?
16) What is defamation?
17) In libel cases, what is negligence?
18) In libel cases, what is identification?
19) In invasion of privacy cases, what is appropriation?
20) In invasion of privacy cases, what is meant by intrusion?
21) What is policy?
22) What is meant by false light?
23) What is prior review?
24) Freedom of the press in the U.S. is ______.
25) In journalism ethics involve___.
26) Libel and slander are ______.
27) A private letter that defames the person to whom it is sent is ___.
28) Privilege protects a journalist from charges of defamation when____.
29) To establish fault in a libel case, a public official must prove ____.
30) To avoid libel charges, a journalist _______.
31) Copyrighting your written work protects you from ___.
32) The 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlheimer decision established that ____.
III. Defining the News
33) What is hard news?
34) What is soft new
35) What is a story’s local angle?
36) What is news judgment?
37) When you’re brainstorming, what are you doing
38) In journalism, what is a scoop?
39) On a school newspaper, what is a tally?
40) What is meant by balance in a news story?
41) A news article is called a story because_____.
42) In high school journalism, objectivity is ____.
43) Conflict drives news because …
44) High school newspapers find timeliness hard to achieve because___.
45) The tally of a budget meeting must be flexible enough to allow for _____.
46) A good candidate for a news brief column is ______.
47) An example of a local angle in a national news story is ____.
48) Borrowing or adapting story ideas from other newspapers is ____.
49) Effective news stories are the result of …
50) In a beat system , reporters should …