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Student Journalism

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the rule of thirds?
Read - read - and read some more.
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
one sentence
The First Amendment protection

2. How many pixels does a yearbook or magazine?
300
Adobe Bridge
Three or more
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

3. How do you size a photo in InDesign?
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!
'many -' 'some -' 'most -' 'several -' 'a lot'
Right Click - Fitting - Fit content proportionally
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.

4. What can your x-girlfriend or boyfriend do if you make up lies about her in the paper?
Knowledge - Attitude - Skills - and Habits
Sue you for defamation
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent

5. Which one of the following is the AP Style for age?
Date or Place Leads
Using social media like Facebook and Twitter.
16-year-old
CMYK - 200 pixels per inch

6. 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
Photo captions that are well written with less than obvious information.
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail

7. What are the ways that going out for journalism could improve your life?
one sentence
Read - read - and read some more.
720 or 1080
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!

8. What are techniques a good photographer uses when taking photos?
Open Groups
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
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.

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

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10. What type of questions should you avoid in an interview?
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
$1.5 million or $2500
Fun - Looks great on college applications - makes you a better writer - work with new technology - Facebook is a part of the class
Yes or No Questions

11. Should you use the name of the school or current year?
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
No - unless it needs clarification.
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
Both - Good reporters balance facts and story telling.

12. What is the most read part of a newspaper?
Right Click - Fitting - Fit content proportionally
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm
Photo captions that are well written with less than obvious information.
Read - read - and read some more.

13. 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
Report accurate facts and quotes.
Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeir
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
title/name/said

14. What do high school students not lose when entering school?
Their rights to Freedom of Speech
Be the number one source of news about CITY HIGH!
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.
Being too broad or generalizing.

15. What does CNTRL B do in InDesign?
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
Concision
Format text boxes - add columns - center text in a box
720 or 1080

16. Where do commas go when using quotes?

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17. What program do I use to view photos?
Adobe Bridge
16-year-old
Students should decide editorial content in a student publication.
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.

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

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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.
No - unless it needs clarification.
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.
Tinker vs Des Moines
How do you spell your name?

20. How many sources must a story have?
Three or more
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable
Data - Facts and anything that is boring.
Adobe Bridge

21. What is the worst word of high school journalism?
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
Students should decide editorial content in a student publication.
Data
An infographic presents facts and numbers in an eye catching graphic.

22. Should 'you' or 'I' or 'our' ever be used in a story?
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.
No - on the rare occasion first person is used.
16-year-old
People or a single person

23. When should numbers be spelled out?
Never in news stories.
title/name/said
They have access to events and people that most students can't get into or have the ability to interview.
When the number is under ten.

24. What do students win for doing great work in journalism?
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
Scholarships - trips to Disneyland - becoming a published author - dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings - and intrinsic value of doing a job well.
Window - Text Wrap
Once in your life.

25. 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.
one sentence
Open Groups
The First Amendment protection
Be the number one source of news about CITY HIGH!

26. Should opinion writing and subjective word choices be used?
Never in news stories.
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
16-year-old
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail

27. 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
Never in news stories.
Very short
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!

28. What is the golden quote?
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
Provide a vision for how the school can be better.

29. What literary techniques should you use to tell a story?
Making up quotes - Lying to Mr. Rogers about where you are during class - Causing harm
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
Once in your life.

30. What should be used in place of adjectives?
Specific Nouns and Verbs
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.
How do you spell your name?
$1.5 million or $2500

31. What should be the focus almost every story?
Closed Groups
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
The combining of newspapers - internet - video - and all forms of journalism into one.
People or a single person

32. What is the correct use of principal and percent?
Concision
principal Malcolm Reynolds and 50 percent
$1.5 million or $2500
Report accurate facts and quotes.

33. What type of leads does Bobby Hawthorne and Mr. Rogers want to see?
Adjust the Tv setting. Increase the shudder speed.
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.
Why - How - Who
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.

34. What is the first question of an interview?
Public Forum
How do you spell your name?
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!
Description of a person - Description of a scene - Play on words - Anecdote - Startling statement

35. What is a sidebar?
A graphic element that lists off facts - figures - and important information in a format other than full text.
A question that usually isn't planned - but is a result of an interesting comment by the person being interviewed.
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.
Adjust the Tv setting. Increase the shudder speed.

36. What is a Twitter feed?
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
$1.5 million or $2500
Character development - Rising action - Dialog - Climax - Conflict
Repetition - Leading Lines - Rule of Thirds - And mainly avoid taking blurry photographs!

37. 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.
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.
Closed Groups
The green box

38. Feedback should be...
A group of twitter sources that you choose that are grouped together to provide an interesting source of information.
something the person can change.
A new paragraph
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!

39. What is GQ STUDD?
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail
Opinions - reactions - and interesting phrasing. They should not contain straight facts.
Yale - Stanford - McAllister - Middlebury and the greatest university of all... IOWA. Go Hawks!
Their rights to Freedom of Speech

40. 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
June 24 or March 30
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
Public Forum
Read - read - and read some more.

41. What is a nut graph?
Background information on the story that usually contains the who - what - how - where - why and when. It usually comes after the golden quote.
'many -' 'some -' 'most -' 'several -' 'a lot'
Seek Truth - Do no harm - Make a distinction between News and Opinion - Don't Sensationalize
Public Forum

42. What is the journalist's code?

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43. Every quote needs what before it?
Seek Truth and Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable
16-year-old
300
A transition

44. What can students not print in a paper?
The green box
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The
one sentence
Lies - Obscenity - Anything that will cause an undue disruption to the school.

45. What is convergence?
Report accurate facts and quotes.
16-year-old
It is the best quote of the story that usually is after the lead.
The combining of newspapers - internet - video - and all forms of journalism into one.

46. How do I make sure the image size is correct in PhotoShop?
WHO WHAT HOW WHERE WHY WHEN
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!
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
Great quotes - Strong Lead - Quote Transition - Unique Angle - Description - Detail

47. Who should lead a high school paper?
Students should decide editorial content in a student publication.
The school's name - Many - Really - A - An - The
300
A transition

48. Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.
Real interviews and descriptions of events a reporter has witnessed.
6:00 p.m. or 8-11 a.m.
Concision
The First Amendment protection

49. Why is journalism the best elective to take next year?
Fun - Looks great on college applications - makes you a better writer - work with new technology - Facebook is a part of the class
16-year-old
Image - Image Size - 200 PPI
something the person can change.

50. How many pixels per inch does a newspaper need not to be pixelated?
Dominant graphic or headline
Data
200
A connection to City High or a local angle.