Journalism I review

_____________ is spreading false reports about someone that injures that person's reputation.

• libel

• public disclosure

• defamation

• invasion of privacy

What are the two main qualities of news? (all news stories should have these two things)

• fairness and good grammar

• Freedom of Speech and brevity

• objectivity and balance

• lack of slander and fairness

Of the five main elements of news, most all news stories share which one?

• Proximity

• Oddity

• Impact

• Timeliness

Of the five main elements of news, this element states that a story is in the newspaper because it involves someone well-known.

• Timeliness

• Proximity

• Impact

• Prominence

For newspapers to fight a libel suit, they have what three main defenses?

• privilege, truth, and fairness

• truth, fair comment and opinion, and privilege

• privilege, public disclosure, and intrusion

• truth, privilege, and libel

_________________ is news that occurs just before a newspaper's deadline.

• Banner news

• Breaking news

• New news

• Skybox

______________ is the opening to any piece of journalistic writing.

• Topic sentence

• Thesis

• Story opening

• Lead

_________________ pertains to the unwritten rules of standards in a profession.

• ethics

• laws

• policy

• rules

'Lifeless corpse' is a ___________________.

• cliche

• common redundancy

• libel

• gender-neutral language

News articles are also called ______

• reports

• stories

• columns

• opinion