Journalism Knowledge Check

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

Our freedom of press is protected by the ______________.

• 2nd Amendment

• Bill of Rights

• First Amendment

• Declaration of Independence

What is the definition of ethics?

• A system of moral principals

• A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation

• The action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation

• Permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that criticism in the same story

In Journalism, which term best describes the name of the first paragraph of an article?

• Introduction

• Lead

• Headline

• Attribution

What is Journalism?

• Journalism is the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast.

• Journalism is the activity or profession of writing books for public entertainment.

• Journalism is a special hobby that some people take up to increase their writing and interviewing skills.

News stories are organized using the ____ style, in which information is presented in descending order of importance.

• Base news

• hard news

• inverted pyramid

• soft news

A spoken false statement

• defamation

• slander

• libel

A published, false written statement

• libel

• slander

• plagiarism

The action of damaging the good reputation of someone.

• libel

• defamation

• slander