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Student Journalism

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Every quote needs what before it?






2. If my image is blurred how can I fix it on a digital SLR camera?






3. Which one of the following is the AP Style for money?






4. How many pixels per inch does a newspaper need not to be pixelated?






5. Should you use the name of the school or current year?






6. Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.






7. What does the T tool do in InDesign?






8. Which one of the following is the AP Style for age?






9. What first - second or third person words be avoided in journalistic stories?

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10. If I don't know how much about a DSLR what setting should I have the camera on?






11. Where do commas go when using quotes?

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12. What is the number one goal of great high school papers?






13. Most information is not known about individuals in the group. Everything about a person is unknown until you have a conversation. To a great extent - each person controls information about themselves.






14. What is the best way to get viewers on to a website?






15. What are the ways that going out for journalism could improve your life?






16. What is the rule of thirds?






17. What is a Twitter feed?






18. How long should a paragraph be in journalism?






19. How many sources must a story have?






20. How do I make sure the image size is correct in PhotoShop?






21. How do you get text to wrap around an object?






22. What makes a good story from a bad story?






23. What is the correct use of principal and percent?






24. What advantage do high school journalists have to get into events?

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25. What is an infographic?






26. How do you share a GoogleDoc?






27. Should you use 'you' in a story?






28. What are the two main responsibilities of a reporter?






29. Should sports reporters or anyone else encourage - congratulate or cheer on a team or individual?






30. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier - the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision - gave public high school officials greater authority to censor some school-sponsored student publications if they chose to do so. But the ruling doesn't apply to publicati






31. What is the first question of an interview?






32. Why are many high school papers not read?






33. What type of leads does Bobby Hawthorne and Mr. Rogers want to see?






34. Information is free and available to others. Some information is always open information - like a person's name - where they live - where they work - or their family. People make inferences based on this information - although not in proportion to ot






35. What do students win for doing great work in journalism?






36. Should 'you' or 'I' or 'our' ever be used in a story?






37. Which one of the following is the AP Style for a date?






38. What should be the focus almost every story?






39. What obvious words should be avoided in a school newspaper?

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40. What is the biggest mistake when writing a lead?






41. What do all great writers do everyday?






42. Every single story in a high school newspaper must have what?






43. Journalists can use a _____ paragraph?






44. How should you attribute a person on the first reference?






45. How is something determined to be slander or libel - as opposed to the exercising of freedom of speech?

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46. Quotes should contain?






47. Are facts or stories more important?






48. What schools have former editors of The Little Hawk attended?






49. What literary techniques should you use to tell a story?






50. What is a nut graph?