Name:_______________________________________ Date:____________________________

Journalism Midterm: Part 2

a. partisan press b. penny press c. yellow journalism d. muckraking e. shock jock f. global
village g. computer-assisted reporting

1. ______ Early American newspapers that aligned themselves with one political party
2. ______ Journalism that crusades for social justice or to expose wrongdoing
3. ______ The use of various news databases and other resources on the internet to facilitate the
gathering of certain kinds of news information
4. ______ The concept of the world as having become a more tightly interrelated community
because of simultaneous broadcast of significant events
5. ______ Newspapers, from the mid-nineteenth century that were filled with news, read by a
mass audience, and included advertising
6. ______ A DJ who entertains his audience by saying outrageous, often vulgar or offensive, things
about people or situations
7. ______ A sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographs, screaming
headlines, frauds, etc.

a. ethics b. slander c. fair comment d. "composite characters" e. libel f. right of reply

g. privileged statements h. in loco parentis i. prior restraint j. plagiarism

8. ______ A libel defense that protects a journalist's expressed opinion of public figures or reviews
of books, records, and the like
9. ______ The legal idea that school authorities act "in place of the parent" and assume a parent's
rights, duties, and responsibilities
10. ______ Written defamation
11. ______ The taking and using as one's own the writings of another person
12. ______ Censorship in advance of publication
13. ______ A damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast
extemporaneously
14. ______ Statements made on the floor of Congress, in the state legislature, or in a courtroom
that, if published, are immune from libel suits
15. ______ Fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics of several real people
16. ______ The opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that criticism
in the same story
17. ______ A system of moral principals
a. advance b. brainstorming c. conflict d. consequence e. filter question f. localization
g. prominence h. proximity i. timeliness

18. ______ The writing of a regional, national, or even international story to bring out the local
angle
19. ______ The geographic nearness of a given event to your place of publication
20. ______ Involves tension, surprise, and suspense, and arises with any good news topic
21. ______ It is posed at the beginning of a survey and is designed to eliminate people who do not
belong to the desired population
22. ______ How well-known an individual is in the community, school, nation, or the world
23. ______ A story about a coming event
24. ______ Refers to the importance of the event
25. ______ A method of obtaining many ideas in a short time
26. ______ Refers to how new or current the event is

a. publisher b. beat reporter c. general assignment reporter d. WED e. managing editor

f. mainbar g. sidebar h. future book

27. ______ The concept of joint planning of pages or sections of publications

28. ______ The person who has overall responsibility for a news operation or publication
29. ______ A person who writes articles on any subject assigned
30. ______ A story supplementing, but separate from, another story on the same subject in the
same issue of the paper
31. ______ The person who owns, runs, or controls a publication
32. ______ A chronological list of upcoming events
33. ______ The story that brings the issue into sharp focus
34. ______A person assigned to check the same news source for each issue of the paper

a. primary source b. formal interview c. stock question d. -est question e. open-ended

question f. off the record

35. ______ An agreement that the interviewer will not print the information shared
36. ______ Structured to allow the interview subject latitude in answering
37. ______ The person who has the best and most reliable information about a topic
38. ______ Usable in any situation
39. ______ Such questions are generally avoided by interviewers
40. ______ A meeting set up and planned in advance