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Student Journalism
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journalism-and-media
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which one of the following is the AP Style for time?
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.
Students should decide editorial content in a student publication.
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
2. What are the two main responsibilities of a reporter?
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
16-year-old
Report accurate facts and quotes.
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm
3. How do you get text to wrap around an object?
Their rights to Freedom of Speech
Sue you for defamation
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
Window - Text Wrap
4. Which one of the following is the AP Style for money?
Journalism students do better because they are better writers - better critical thinkers - score higher on AP tests - build their resumes - and work well with others to get the job done!
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
Date or Place Leads
$1.5 million or $2500
5. How many pixels per inch does a newspaper need not to be pixelated?
Be the number one source of news about CITY HIGH!
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
200
Tinker vs Des Moines
6. What is the most read part of a newspaper?
300
Photo captions that are well written with less than obvious information.
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The
7. Should you use 'you' in a story?
Never write directly to the reader.
A connection to City High or a local angle.
Using social media like Facebook and Twitter.
Why - How - Who
8. Every quote needs what before it?
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
Concision
The green box
A transition
9. What is the first question of an interview?
How do you spell your name?
No - unless it needs clarification.
Their rights to Freedom of Speech
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.
10. What can students not print in a paper?
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
11. How is something determined to be slander or libel - as opposed to the exercising of freedom of speech?
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12. Should you use a question in a lead?
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
'many -' 'some -' 'most -' 'several -' 'a lot'
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Once in your life.
13. Who should lead a high school paper?
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
Students should decide editorial content in a student publication.
A connection to City High or a local angle.
Yes or No Questions
14. What is convergence?
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.
The combining of newspapers - internet - video - and all forms of journalism into one.
15. How do photos need to be formatted for the newspaper?
A compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting - photography and design.[1] The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch
An infographic presents facts and numbers in an eye catching graphic.
16. How do you size a photo in InDesign?
$1.5 million or $2500
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
Right Click - Fitting - Fit content proportionally
Seek Truth - Do no harm - Make a distinction between News and Opinion - Don't Sensationalize
17. 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
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
An infographic presents facts and numbers in an eye catching graphic.
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
Tinker vs Des Moines
18. How many pixels per inch does a high definition t.v. have ?
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
Right Click - Fitting - Fit content proportionally
A transition
720 or 1080
19. Supreme Court case that stated that students do not lose their freedom of speech rights in high school. Mary Beth tinker wore black arm bands to protest the Vietnam War.
Never in news stories.
Tinker vs Des Moines
Provide a vision for how the school can be better.
one sentence
20. What is the journalist's code?
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21. What is the biggest mistake when writing a lead?
In most cases - only when you have obtained the permission of the copyright holder. Each of these works is protected by copyright law - which means others can use them only if they have obtained permission. Publishing a credit line does not take the
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
Being too broad or generalizing.
Journalism students do better because they are better writers - better critical thinkers - score higher on AP tests - build their resumes - and work well with others to get the job done!
22. If my image is blurred how can I fix it on a digital SLR camera?
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
Adjust the Tv setting. Increase the shudder speed.
The combining of newspapers - internet - video - and all forms of journalism into one.
Real interviews and descriptions of events a reporter has witnessed.
23. Prohibits the Congress from making laws 'respecting an establishment of religion' - prohibiting the free exercise of religion - infringing on the freedom of speech and infringing on the freedom of the press.
Closed Groups
The First Amendment protection
'many -' 'some -' 'most -' 'several -' 'a lot'
When the number is under ten.
24. Each quote should begin...
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
one sentence
A new paragraph
25. What is a Twitter feed?
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
Click on share and type in an email address.
Sue you for defamation
Mr. Rogers of the Student Press Law Center (SPLC)
26. What schools have former editors of The Little Hawk attended?
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
Adobe Bridge
Read - read - and read some more.
27. A student publication is a public forum for student expression when school officials have given student editors the authority to make their own content decisions. A school can do that either through an official policy or by allowing a publication to
200
Public Forum
June 24 or March 30
one sentence
28. What is an infographic?
720 or 1080
People or a single person
Using social media like Facebook and Twitter.
An infographic presents facts and numbers in an eye catching graphic.
29. Should you use the name of the school or current year?
No - unless it needs clarification.
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The
Seek Truth - Do no harm - Make a distinction between News and Opinion - Don't Sensationalize
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm
30. What first - second or third person words be avoided in journalistic stories?
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31. How can you get thrown off The Little Hawk staff?
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
16-year-old
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
32. What is the worst word of high school journalism?
Closed Groups
The concept of libel/slander - both of which are referred to as 'defamation -' can be somewhat complex. But in general - all speech is presumed to be protected by the First Amendment with very narrowly-drawn exceptions. One of those exceptions involv
Data
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
33. What type of leads does Bobby Hawthorne and Mr. Rogers want to see?
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
Why - How - Who
34. Should 'you' or 'I' or 'our' ever be used in a story?
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.
Concision
Adjust the Tv setting. Increase the shudder speed.
35. Should sports reporters or anyone else encourage - congratulate or cheer on a team or individual?
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
Why - How - Who
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.
Never in news stories.
36. What words that are not very specific should never be used in transitions?
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37. How do you share a GoogleDoc?
Adobe Bridge
Students should decide editorial content in a student publication.
Click on share and type in an email address.
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
38. Which one of the following is the AP Style for a date?
June 24 or March 30
Read - read - and read some more.
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
A connection to City High or a local angle.
39. What leads do you want to avoid?
Window - Text Wrap
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
Date or Place Leads
40. Every single story in a high school newspaper must have what?
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Never in news stories.
A connection to City High or a local angle.
41. What advantage do high school journalists have to get into events?
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42. What should be avoided in direct quotes?
Closed Groups
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
one sentence
43. What is the golden quote?
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
title/name/said
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
44. Is a student's choice of dress protected by the First Amendment?
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45. What are techniques a good photographer uses when taking photos?
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
The green box
They have access to events and people that most students can't get into or have the ability to interview.
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
46. Feedback should be...
How do you spell your name?
something the person can change.
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
200
47. Why is journalism the best elective to take next year?
$1.5 million or $2500
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
Very short
Fun - Looks great on college applications - makes you a better writer - work with new technology - Facebook is a part of the class
48. What do high school students not lose when entering school?
Tinker vs Des Moines
Their rights to Freedom of Speech
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch
49. What is a nut graph?
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
When the number is under ten.
Window - Text Wrap
50. Quotes should contain?
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
'many -' 'some -' 'most -' 'several -' 'a lot'
16-year-old
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