Review - Journalism I Final Exam

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Which principle of journalism is related to fairness and equality in reporting?

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Impartiality

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Independence

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Free from the influence of others; exists for the purpose of readers and nothing else

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Select the newsworthy value that best applies to this story: A report on a civil war in the Middle East.

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Conflict

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Select the newsworthy value that best applies to this story: The most recent weather report.

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Usefulness

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Select the newsworthy value that best applies to this story: A report on a food shortage across the entire country.

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Impact

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Select the correct definition for the following newsworthy value: Novelty

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How interesting or unusual a story is.

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What is the main difference between impact and weight?

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Impact deals with how many people are affected; weight deals with how emotionally heavy a story is.

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Which of the following stories does NOT contain the value of proximity? A story about Douglass students completing a service project. A story about a local Memphis nonprofit organization. A story about raising the national minimum wage.

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A story about the Queen Elizabeth in England.

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Which invention in journalism history first allowed people to quickly create and distribute books?

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The printing press

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Why was the invention of photojournalism important to the history of reporting?

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It allowed people to see evidence of what was happening in the world.