Elements of the News Quiz

What is your name?

1. What term means question designed to eliminate people who don’t belong to the desired population?

• timeliness
• filter question
• conflict
• consequence

2. What term means the importance of an event; the greater the effect, the greater the value?

• timeliness
• filter question
• conflict
• consequence

3. What term means a good story topic that brings about tension, surprise, suspense, et cetera?

• prominence
• random sample
• conflict
• consequence

4. What term means how well known an individual is in the community?

• prominence
• random sample
• conflict
• consequence

5. What term means geographic nearness of a given event to your place of publication or your readers?

• prominence
• proximity
• conflict
• brainstorming

6. What term means story that causes the reader to feel emotions like sorrow, pity, or amazement?

• brainstorming
• human interest
• news judgement
• consequence

7. What term means writing a regional, national, or even international story to bring out a local angle?

• random sample
• human interest
• news judgement
• localization

8. What term means how new or current an event is?

• random sample
• human interest
• timeliness
• localization

9. What term means the art of obtaining ideas in a short amount of time?

• brainstorming
• human interest
• timeliness
• localization