Are you news savvy?

1. Journalists must have a certain college degree to get hired and do their jobs.

• True

• False

2. Any news stories printed online have been fact-checked just like those printed in newspapers.

• True

• False

3. The ads that appear as sidebars on most websites are always approved by the people who run the websites.

• True

• False

4. Newspapers, magazines, and websites will always tell you if something they wrote was incorrect.

• True

• False

5. Journalists don’t write stories about their friends.

• True

• False

6. Journalists never write their own opinion.

• True

• False

7. It’s easy to tell if a story is one-sided or unfair.

• True

• False

8. Whoever wrote a story usually writes the headline (or title) that goes with it.

• True

• False

9. Journalists let the people who are in their stories read the articles before they are printed.

• True

• False

10. A good journalist won’t print something if they think it will get someone in trouble.

• True

• False