Journalism Semester 1 Review

Select ALL newsworthy values that apply to this story:

Chadwick Boseman passes away from cancer two weeks ago.

• Impact

• Weight

• Timeliness

• Proximity

• Prominence

Journalism is indispensable to democratic societies; history reveals that the more democratic a society, the more news and information it tends to have.

• False

• True

A style of writing most commonly applied to news stories in which the most important facts appear early in the story and less important facts later in the story.

• Inverted Pyramid

• By-line

• Lead

• Editorial

It is the reference material used for finding words with similar meanings.

• encyclopedia

• textbook

• dictionary

• thesaurus

What does "timeliness" mean?

• writing a news story that is new and current

• writing a news story that is about history

• writing a news story that is clocks and watches

What was the language/code that was used with the telegraph?

• Pig Latin

• Morse code

• Russian

• Klingon code

The term used when editing the errors in an article is

• deleting

• formalizing

• checking

• proofreading

The first section of the newspaper is called

• sports

• editorial

• news

• features

News reporting on all relevant sides of an issue that allows representatives of those various sides the same coverage is ...

• soft news

• fairness

• frame

• beat

Select the newsworthy value that best applies to this story:

The most recent weather report.

• Weight

• Usefulness

• Impact

• Conflict