Campus Journalism (Multiple-Choice Type) Quiz. This test covers various topics in Campus Journalism including canons of journalism, parts of a campus paper, and news story elements. You may use the items below for a pretest or for summative assessment purposes.
- What canon of journalism distinguishes news reports from expressions of opinions, and that news reports should be free from opinion or bias of any kind?
- Fair Play
- Impartiality
- Decency
- Responsibility
- Every defamatory imputation is presumed to be malicious, even if it be true, if no good intention and justifiable motive for making it except:
- If it is an oral or spoken defamation
- If the party injured is identifiable
- If it is with motive of public interest
- If the statement is not directly defamatory
- It means ‘to set type so it fills line completely; also, to space type so column is exactly filled vertically.’
- Kill
- Justify
- Jump
- Boil
- He/she is a person who examines first impressions of printing to correct errors, primarily typographical, but also in fact and style.
- Copyreader
- Copywriter
- Proofreader
- Rim Man
- It is a copyreading instruction which literally means ‘let it stand;’ or to restore part of the copy that was deleted.
- Stet
- Close-Up
- Retain
- Remain
- It is the collection of data, usually appearing on editorial page, which lists publisher, editors, and staff of publication.
- Masthead
- Editorial Cartoon
- Editorial
- Morgue
- Sometimes complementing the editorial, this is a visual representation of an opinion, usually humorous in presentation.
- Editorial Column
- Editorial Cartoon
- Editorial
- Masthead
- It includes the writer’s or photographer’s name or signature line above story or under the picture.
- By-line
- Border
- Caption
- Credit Line
- It means ‘to enlarge a picture or any section of it.’
- Bleed
- Blow-Up
- Crop
- Center Spread
- It is a headline style which is set so that all lines are even at right and ragged at left.
- Flush
- Inverted Pyramid
- Flush –Left
- Flush-Right
- These are news with emotional impact about individuals or animals; may be fairly short items such as brights, or longer features.
- Science and Health
- Editorials
- Human Interest
- Sports News
- It is the method of determining number of specific letters which can be set in line of head.
- Unit Counts
- Wrap-Up
- Teletype
- Memory
- This page layout is desirable to use when one story is more important than any other. The readers’ attention is directed to the upper-right or upper-left corner so that the eye naturally focuses on the main story.
- Contrast/Balance
- Streamlined Layout
- Circus Layout
- Brace and Focus
- This design is broken-column layout carried to the extreme. The page is broken up with no attempt on regularity, symmetry and order.
- Circus Layout
- Streamlined Layout
- Brace and Focus
- Perfect Balance
- Which of these terms best replaces the word ‘reject’ in headline writing?
- Pit
- Nix
- Rap
- Mull
- How many unit counts will the small letters ‘m’ and ‘w’ have in a headline?
- ½ Unit
- 1 Unit
- 1 ½ Units
- 2 Units
- What term has been coined to describe corruption in the media industry?
- Envelopmental
- Commercialism
- Cuffed Journalism
- Shut Media
- Which word supplies the given statement from the Philippine Journalists Code of the Philippines: I shall not commit any act of ____?
- Dishonesty
- Plagiarism
- Improper Emphasis
- Defamation
- When a reader takes hold of a newspaper, he instinctively starts looking at the top left corner of the page. This area is called:
- POA
- Terminal Area
- Fallow Corners
- Optical Magnet Area
- It is the term used to mean two or more heads touching horizontally.
- Column Rules
- Tombstones
- Armpits
- Thumbnail
- It is the unit of printer’s measurement, e.g. 12 point, 1/6 inch.
- Pix
- Pica
- Point
- Pasa
- It is the vertical line separating type masses.
- Condensed
- Column Inch
- Column Rule
- Fold
- He/she is a staff member who edits copy, sometimes writes headlines and dummies-up pages.
- Copyreader
- Copy Editor
- City Editor
- Rewrite Man
- It is a newspaper format with pages approximately 11×15 inches; also a philosophy of presenting news of sensational content and in circus form.
- Broadsheet
- Tabloid
- Teletype
- Style Book
- It is a small head that rides above main headline.
- Banner
- Kicker
- Headline
- Gutter
- These are little boxes on either side of the newspaper’s nameplate.
- Drop-Ins
- Ears
- Dummy
- Deck
- It is a headline that runs across the top of the first page; also called a streamer.
- Kicker
- Deck
- Banner
- Basement
- It means ‘to eliminate unwanted areas of a picture.’
- Cut
- Crop
- Cub
- Bleed
- It involves a defamatory statement which, applied to any person, would hold him up to “public hatred, contempt, ridicule, aversion, or disgrace, or induce an evil opinion of him in the minds of right-thinking persons, and deprive him of their friendly company and society.”
- Libel per se
- Libel per quod
- Slander
- Oral Defamation
- This is the most important point in any sports story because the writer has to tell his readers who won the game.
- Individual Stars
- Comparison of Teams
- Spectacular Plays
- The score or outcome
- This editorial explains the significance of a news event or a current idea, condition or situation.
- Commendation
- Interpretation
- Criticism
- Entertainment
- He/she must always remember that the lead of a story becomes more effective if written with words that move or denote action, but he/she should not overdo it either.
- Feature Writer
- Editor
- Sports Writer
- Human Interest Writer
- This type of editorial points out the good or the bad features of a situation mentioned on the news page and tells what should be done about it. Its purpose is to influence the reader.
- Entertainment
- Editorial of Criticism
- Interpretation
- Commendation
- This news story element always helps to make facts interesting to people. The greater the degree of unusualness in a story, the greater its value as news.
- Conflict
- Oddity
- Prominence
- Proximity
- It is an assemblage of words written in bigger, bolder letter than the usual page text at the beginning of the news.
- News Title
- Headline
- Lead
- Quote
- Complete the Philippine Journalism code statement: I shall presume persons accused of being innocent until proven otherwise. I shall exercise caution in publishing names of __and women involved in criminal cases so that they may not unjustly lose their standing in society.
- Personalities
- Government officials
- Minors
- Journalists
- This sports lead tells the personality or personalities who lead the team to victory, whether he is the top scorer who made the crucial play to win.
- Outstanding Player
- Significant Play Lead
- Novelty Lead
- Significance of Game
- As what it suggests, this is the most entertaining and playful type of sports lead; it may describe the player, the play, or others. This can be made using figurative language or whatever the sports writer chooses.
- Significant Play
- Novelty Lead
- Outstanding Player
- Significance of Game
- How many unit counts does the headline ‘BCIS bags medals in NEPPESA quiz bee’ have?
- 40 and ½
- 39 and ½
- 41
- 41 and ½
- It is a diagram or layout plan of a newspaper or magazine page, showing the position of each story and picture.
- Dummy
- Follow Copy
- Halftone
- Linotype
- Which of these has a corresponding 2 unit counts?
- Figures 0-9
- Capital Letter W
- All spaces
- Capital Letter X
- What news value stresses that a story is interesting if the readers clearly realize its direct implication to them?
- Timeliness
- Conflict
- Proximity
- Prominence
- These are editorials which tackle issues or topics that do not have direct element of timeliness as they are “universal.”
- Second-run First-run
- Editorials
- Argumentative
- Features
- In writing a news headline, which of these terms can be best used in replacement for the word ‘former’?
- Curb
- Ex
- Gird
- Back
- In journalism, it is defined as an accurate and timely account of an idea, issue, or an event that affects a significant number of people.
- News
- Advertisement
- Broadcast
- Write-up
- It is a news story that goes beyond the day’s facts and seeks to analyze, interpret, and uncover facts related to an issue or event.
- Follow-up Story
- Sidebar Story
- News Features
- Editorial
- It is a news story that takes off from previous news reports and looks at the story from another angle, from another source, or simply updates the reader with the developments of the story.
- Follow-up Story
- Sidebar Story
- News Features
- Editorial
- It includes the page number, date of publication, and name of newspaper positioned on top of the page.
- Nameplate
- Folio
- Index
- Credit Line
- It is the act of putting of the writer’s opinion in the story.
- Editorializing
- News Coverage
- Reflective Writing
- Feature Writing
- The pull on the reading diagonal is like that of gravity. The reader cannot turn it off or even turn it down. All he can do is place optical magnets in certain areas—especially the ___—to lure the eye through the whole page.
- Terminal Area
- Primary Optical Area
- Fallow Corners
- Basement