Prelim Exam in Campus Journalism

What is journalism?

• Reading
• Editing
• The writing of newspapers, magazines, and news to be broadcast.
• Violent news story.

What is a lead?

• The conclusion
• Most important part of a story
• The people named in your story
• You are are the lead as the writer

Journalists start with a lead.

• True
• False

You should write a story word for word.

• False
• True

One story inside a newspaper is called a...

• source
• headline
• citation
• article

The title of a newspaper article is called a...

• source
• headline
• citation
• article

If you reuse a photo from your source you should make a ____ to protect you from plagiarism.

• source
• headline
• citation
• article

When writing in journalistic style, you should always report on  ______ first in the article.

• the least important story details
• what the photograph is
• who the author is
• the most important story details

Jack wrote an article titled, "The Vikings Beat the Jaguars." What is the best category to put it under?

• Sports
• Movies/Music/TV
• Technology
• Travel

Wilma wrote an article titled, "All About Google Glasses." What is the best category to put it under?

• Sports
• Movies/Music/TV
• Technology
• Travel