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WorksheetsNews gathering & News writing
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
If a journalist reads an interesting rumour online, they should:
Write and publish a story about it
Ignore it
Find a verifiable source to prove it
What are news stories based on?
Facts
Opinions
Speculation
Before writing a story, you need to find out:
What your best friend thinks about it
The 5 Ws and H
Which page it will be placed on in the newspaper
A vox pop is
A review of popular music
An interview with members of the public
The lead story in a newspaper
The most important thing to do before an interview is
Choose something smart and professional to wear
Research the interview topic
Plan some jokes to put the interviewee at ease
Why is a news story unlike a piece of creative writing?
Choice of words is unimportant
Grammar and punctuation has to be correct
It doesn’t try to build suspense
In a story about a house fire, which of the following sources should be prioritised?
A statement from the fire brigade
The school teacher of the child who was rescued in the fire
A mother whose child nearly died in different fire last year
The inverted pyramid is a good structure to follow because:
It allows you to include all the relevant information
It helps editors know where to put the story in a newspaper
All the important information comes higher up in the story
When using quotations in a story you should:
Make sure you include everything the person said
Improve the wording to make it more news-worthy
Choose the most useful and interesting comments only
In news writing, short words and short sentences are best because:
They are quicker to write and this helps meet deadlines
Readers might not have had a university education
They make stories clear and easy to understand
Which of the following are best left out of a news story?
Statistics – they can be difficult to understand and boring
A biased politician whose views are one-sided and offensive
Opinion and speculation
What part of a news story should sum it up neatly and cover key information?
The last line
A quotation from a source
The intro
