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OCR A-level Media - Paper 1: News and online media

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select all of the red tops.

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
2.

What's another name for a tabloid

a)

Entertainment press

b)

Popular press

c)

Quality press

d)

Party press

3.

What's another name for a broadsheet?

a)

Entertainment press

b)

Popular press

c)

Quality press

d)

Party press

4.

What are small quality press newspapers called?

a)

Tabloids

b)

Narrowsheets

c)

Smallsheets

d)

Compacts

5.

Which is a tabloid?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which is a compact? Choose all that apply.

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
7.

Which is a broadsheet?

a)
b)
8.

Which of these papers are right wing?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
9.

Which of these would you NOT find in a print newspaper?

a)

Splash

b)

Standfirst

c)

Hyperlink

d)

Standalone

10.

Which is the jump line?

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

Which is the copy?

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.

Which is the masthead?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

What identifies this headline as from a quality press title?

a)

Its length

b)

Its capitalisation

c)

Its serif typography

d)

Its lack of full stop

14.

Which of these papers is owned by The Scott Trust Limited?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
15.

Which was founded on 5 May 1821?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
16.

Which is the biggest-selling UK daily print newspaper?

a)
b)
c)
d)
17.

Which was founded on 4 May 1896?

a)
b)
c)
d)
18.

Which of these papers is centre-left, politically?

a)
b)
c)
d)
19.

What is a standfirst?

a)

The main picture in a newspaper article

b)

The first column in a newspaper article

c)

A block of bold or bigger font at the start of a newspaper article's copy

d)

The main front page article, inducing the headline, image, and copy.

20.

What type of newspaper is more likely to have a hard-news agenda? Choose all that apply.

a)

Popular press

b)

Tabloid

c)

Compact

d)

Broadsheet

e)

Quality press

21.

Which paper is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT)?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
22.

Who is the controlling shareholder for the DMGT?

a)

Rupert Murdoch

b)

Lil Pump

c)

Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere

d)

David Guetta

23.

Which attracts an ABC1 audience?

a)
b)
c)
d)
24.

Who chaired the public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press, after the phone hacking scandal?

a)

Rupert Murdoch

b)

Lord Leveson

c)

Lord Sugar

d)

Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere

e)

Jeremy Corbyn

25.

Which of the following are typical features of a tabloid?

a)

Lots of images

b)

Lots of copy

c)

Serif fonts for headlines

d)

Celebrity news agenda

e)

Fully capitalised headlines

26.

What is a standalone

a)

A picture story with little or no copy

b)

A pullout

c)

The main story on the newspaper front page

d)

A list of contents

27.

What terms can be applied to this paper?

a)

Right wing

b)

Red top

c)

Tabloid

d)

Quality press

28.

What terms can be applied to this paper?

a)

Right wing

b)

Tabloid

c)

Popular press

d)

Red top

29.

What terms can be applied to this paper?

a)

Compact

b)

Popular press

c)

Quality press

d)

Red top

30.

What terms can be applied to this paper?

a)

Red top

b)

middle market tabloid

c)

Broadsheet

d)

Popular press

31.

Another name for a popular press newspaper is a (a)   .

32.

(a)   is owned by The Scott Trust.

33.

The Daily Mail's political alignment is (a)  

34.

The Daily Mail is owned by

(a)  

35.

The Guardian is

a)

Liberal

b)

Right-wing