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Student Journalism

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the number one goal of great high school papers?
Adobe Bridge
Be the number one source of news about CITY HIGH!
When the number is under ten.
No - unless it needs clarification.

2. What do students win for doing great work in journalism?
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
'I -' 'We -' 'Our -' 'Us -' 'You'
something the person can change.
A guide

3. What leads do you want to avoid?
Date or Place Leads
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement

4. What is the biggest mistake when writing a lead?
Read - read - and read some more.
People or a single person
Being too broad or generalizing.
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.

5. What can students not print in a paper?
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
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
'I -' 'We -' 'Our -' 'Us -' 'You'
Format text boxes - add columns - center text in a box

6. What is the best way to get viewers on to a website?
something the person can change.
Using social media like Facebook and Twitter.
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable
Click on share and type in an email address.

7. What words that are not very specific should never be used in transitions?

8. How many sources must a story have?
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.
Three or more
Sue you for defamation
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement

9. What is GQ STUDD?
Why - How - Who
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
Yes - in some cases. Courts have recognized that students' choice of clothing can communicate certain messages and ideas - ranging from their stance on political and social issues to their social standing or religious beliefs.
Being too broad or generalizing.

10. How can you get thrown off The Little Hawk staff?
Three or more
'I -' 'We -' 'Our -' 'Us -' 'You'
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

11. Every single story in a high school newspaper must have what?
Sue you for defamation
A connection to City High or a local angle.
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.

12. How many pixels per inch does a high definition t.v. have ?
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
720 or 1080
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
$1.5 million or $2500

13. Guarantees students their freedom of speech except for speech that is obscene - libelous - unlawful - violates school regulations or causes a disruption to the school.
Report accurate facts and quotes.
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch
The First Amendment protection
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act

14. What is the worst word of high school journalism?
Yes or No Questions
Dominant graphic or headline
June 24 or March 30
Data

15. What makes a good lead?
720 or 1080
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
something the person can change.
A connection to City High or a local angle.

16. What program do I use to view photos?
Adobe Bridge
$1.5 million or $2500
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits

17. What literary techniques should you use to tell a story?
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict

18. What is the golden quote?
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
720 or 1080
Very short

19. Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.
Concision
720 or 1080
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch
The First Amendment protection

20. Which one of the following is the AP Style for money?
Mr. Rogers of the Student Press Law Center (SPLC)
Their rights to Freedom of Speech
Read - read - and read some more.
$1.5 million or $2500

21. Should opinion writing and subjective word choices be used?
Adjust the Tv setting. Increase the shudder speed.
Never in news stories.
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
A new paragraph

22. Is a student's choice of dress protected by the First Amendment?

23. What does CNTRL B do in InDesign?
A connection to City High or a local angle.
Data
Format text boxes - add columns - center text in a box
Dominant graphic or headline

24. What is a Twitter feed?
Sue you for defamation
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
Inside of the quotes - 'The Little Hawks are deep and are going to win big -' Rogers said.
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.

25. Should you use the name of the school or current year?
Date or Place Leads
No - unless it needs clarification.
Very short
Window - Text Wrap

26. What are the 5 Ws and H
The green box
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
720 or 1080

27. What type of questions should you avoid in an interview?
Three or more
Yes or No Questions
Iowa Freedom of Expression Act
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent

28. Can I use cartoon characters - song lyrics or another publication's photographs in my publication?
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
16-year-old
Open Groups
How do you spell your name?

29. 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
Yes - in some cases. Courts have recognized that students' choice of clothing can communicate certain messages and ideas - ranging from their stance on political and social issues to their social standing or religious beliefs.
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
A new paragraph
Yes or No Questions

30. What is required for people to succeed in social systems such as groups?
something the person can change.
Read - read - and read some more.
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.

31. What should be used in place of adjectives?
Data
Very short
Specific Nouns and Verbs
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail

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

33. What does the T tool do in InDesign?
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
Public Forum
Very short
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.

34. Quotes should contain?
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
Fun - Looks great on college applications - makes you a better writer - work with new technology - Facebook is a part of the class
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!

35. Should you use 'you' in a story?
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Adobe Bridge
Never write directly to the reader.
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.

36. A.P. Style stands for...
Concision
Public Forum
Associated Press Style that is a guideline for correct journalistic style.
Inside of the quotes - 'The Little Hawks are deep and are going to win big -' Rogers said.

37. 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
Photo captions that are well written with less than obvious information.
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.
Public Forum
The First Amendment protection

38. What makes a good story from a bad story?
Real interviews and descriptions of events a reporter has witnessed.
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
Why - How - Who

39. What is a nut graph?
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
People or a single person
Window - Text Wrap

40. Where do you go for help in legal situations?
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
Window - Text Wrap
Mr. Rogers of the Student Press Law Center (SPLC)
title/name/said

41. What can your x-girlfriend or boyfriend do if you make up lies about her in the paper?
one sentence
Sue you for defamation
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
Specific Nouns and Verbs

42. Which one of the following is the AP Style for time?
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.
Both - Good reporters balance facts and story telling.
Fun - Looks great on college applications - makes you a better writer - work with new technology - Facebook is a part of the class
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail

43. 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
Makes text boxes and allows you to write.
Sue you for defamation
Three or more
Open Groups

44. What type of leads does Bobby Hawthorne and Mr. Rogers want to see?
Sue you for defamation
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.
Why - How - Who
Never - sports reporters should not cheer.

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

46. What are the four codes for journalists?
16-year-old
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
something the person can change.

47. Where do commas go when using quotes?

48. How do you get text to wrap around an object?
Once in your life.
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm
Yes - and occasionally they are. In such cases the individual reporter and the editor could be held legally responsible. Court decisions indicate that a school which does not control the content of a student publication may be protected from liabilit
Window - Text Wrap

49. When should numbers be spelled out?
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
When the number is under ten.
Specific Nouns and Verbs
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.

50. What are techniques a good photographer uses when taking photos?
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Once in your life.