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Student Journalism

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is journalism the best elective to take next year?
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
Real interviews and descriptions of events a reporter has witnessed.
People or a single person
Fun - Looks great on college applications - makes you a better writer - work with new technology - Facebook is a part of the class

2. How many pixels per inch does a high definition t.v. have ?
Both - Good reporters balance facts and story telling.
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
720 or 1080
A guide

3. What do high school students not lose when entering school?
Their rights to Freedom of Speech
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
Both - Good reporters balance facts and story telling.

4. What program do I use to view photos?
Adobe Bridge
Click on share and type in an email address.
200
Never in news stories.

5. What is convergence?
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
Tinker vs Des Moines
The combining of newspapers - internet - video - and all forms of journalism into one.

6. When should numbers be spelled out?
Lifeless data - too many facts - not enough stories bad leads - reporters are not attending events and getting good quotes
one sentence
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!
When the number is under ten.

7. What is the correct use of principal and percent?
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
Both - Good reporters balance facts and story telling.
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch

8. How many sources must a story have?
Lifeless data - too many facts - not enough stories bad leads - reporters are not attending events and getting good quotes
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.
Three or more

9. What is the first question of an interview?
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
When the number is under ten.
How do you spell your name?
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable

10. How do I make sure the image size is correct in PhotoShop?
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
Click on share and type in an email address.
Tinker vs Des Moines
$1.5 million or $2500

11. What does the opinion section of the paper do?
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
Provide a vision for how the school can be better.
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.
Be the number one source of news about CITY HIGH!

12. What are techniques a good photographer uses when taking photos?
Why - How - Who
Never in news stories.
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
June 24 or March 30

13. What is required for people to succeed in social systems such as groups?
Data
Closed Groups
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm

14. Feedback should be...
something the person can change.
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Why - How - Who
title/name/said

15. What can students not print in a paper?
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
Window - Text Wrap
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm

16. Should you use 'you' in a story?
A guide
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
Never write directly to the reader.
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.

17. What is the most read part of a newspaper?
Adjust the Tv setting. Increase the shudder speed.
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
Photo captions that are well written with less than obvious information.
title/name/said

18. Quotes should contain?
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
Very short
A connection to City High or a local angle.
The First Amendment protection

19. What should every object be lined up with in InDesign?
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
A guide
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
Being too broad or generalizing.

20. What is a follow up question?

21. What do all great writers do everyday?
Report accurate facts and quotes.
Read - read - and read some more.
Closed Groups
June 24 or March 30

22. Where do commas go when using quotes?

23. Should sports reporters or anyone else encourage - congratulate or cheer on a team or individual?
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
When the number is under ten.
300
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.

24. What is the golden quote?
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.

25. Which one of the following is the AP Style for time?
They have access to events and people that most students can't get into or have the ability to interview.
A transition
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
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.

26. What is a sidebar?
Read - read - and read some more.
The green box
$1.5 million or $2500
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.

27. How do you share a GoogleDoc?
Click on share and type in an email address.
something the person can change.
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.

28. Which one of the following is the AP Style for age?
one sentence
Using social media like Facebook and Twitter.
title/name/said
16-year-old

29. Each quote should begin...
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
June 24 or March 30
A new paragraph

30. Should you use a question in a lead?
People or a single person
Never in news stories.
The combining of newspapers - internet - video - and all forms of journalism into one.
Once in your life.

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

32. 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.
Sue you for defamation
Format text boxes - add columns - center text in a box
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
The First Amendment protection

33. How long should a paragraph be in journalism?
Very short
one sentence
Dominant graphic or headline
Real interviews and descriptions of events a reporter has witnessed.

34. What do students win for doing great work in journalism?
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
Date or Place Leads
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.

35. What makes a good story from a bad story?
Data
16-year-old
Real interviews and descriptions of events a reporter has witnessed.
Click on share and type in an email address.

36. Should 'you' or 'I' or 'our' ever be used in a story?
Data
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.
Yes or No Questions

37. What are the four codes for journalists?
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable
one sentence
The First Amendment protection
$1.5 million or $2500

38. What should be the focus almost every story?
Data
Adobe Bridge
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
People or a single person

39. What are the ways that going out for journalism could improve your life?
A connection to City High or a local angle.
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!
Never in news stories.
'I -' 'We -' 'Our -' 'Us -' 'You'

40. Every single story in a high school newspaper must have what?
Never in news stories.
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
Public Forum
A connection to City High or a local angle.

41. What can your x-girlfriend or boyfriend do if you make up lies about her in the paper?
Sue you for defamation
Click on share and type in an email address.
Dominant graphic or headline
'I -' 'We -' 'Our -' 'Us -' 'You'

42. 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
A new paragraph
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
Data
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch

43. Where do you go for help in legal situations?
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
Mr. Rogers of the Student Press Law Center (SPLC)
Seek Truth - Do no harm - Make a distinction between News and Opinion - Don't Sensationalize
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!

44. 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
Date or Place Leads
No - unless it needs clarification.
Open Groups
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.

45. Why are many high school papers not read?
Lifeless data - too many facts - not enough stories bad leads - reporters are not attending events and getting good quotes
'I -' 'We -' 'Our -' 'Us -' 'You'
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
Being too broad or generalizing.

46. What is an infographic?
An infographic presents facts and numbers in an eye catching graphic.
Being too broad or generalizing.
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The

47. What is the number one goal of great high school papers?
Right Click - Fitting - Fit content proportionally
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
Be the number one source of news about CITY HIGH!
Concision

48. Are facts or stories more important?
A connection to City High or a local angle.
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
Both - Good reporters balance facts and story telling.
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The

49. What type of leads does Bobby Hawthorne and Mr. Rogers want to see?
Why - How - Who
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
They have access to events and people that most students can't get into or have the ability to interview.
one sentence

50. What is a Twitter feed?
When the number is under ten.
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.
Tinker vs Des Moines
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.