Journalism and Story Writing

What is the most important part of the story?

• Lead

• Attribution

• Details

• Length

These words provide no impact or interest so they should be avoided in the lead. (More than one answer)

• a, an, the, recently, there, there, are

• At a meeting, Tonight, Tomorrow

• verbs, adjectives, adverbs

• nouns, subjects and predicates

Which of the following is an example of ACTIVE voice?

• Students used sharp blades in the dissection.

• Sharp blades were used by students during the dissection.

A journalist should inject himself / herself in the story and give their opinions throughout the stories they write.

• True

• False

Attribution means

• giving credit to the speaker

• decay

• plagiarism

• reporting

This kind of feature is designed to make the reader smile/laugh/frown/cry and probably has a surprise ending

• human interest

• historical

• personal experience

• sights & sounds

What does the "Q" stand for in the L-T-Q-T-Q writing model?

• Question

• Quote

• Quality

In the Inverted Pyramid writing style, where are the "Important Details" written?

• In the first sentence

• At the very end of the story

• After the lead sentence

News articles about light topics such as sports, fashion and entertainment are called...

• Soft News

• Prime stories

• Feature stories

• Investigative stories

What is an open-ended question?

• An older question
• A yes or no question
• A question requiring the interviewee to give longer explanations and lead to follow-up questions.
• A new question