Journalism
Journalists use these five things, often called the 'Five W's', to answer the most basic questions of a news story.
What is Who, What, Where, When, Why?
When the price of a product goes up, consumers generally buy less of it. This is the basic law of this.
What is Demand?
This is what the 'www' stands for in a website address.
What is World Wide Web?
This document shows a company's revenues and expenses over a period of time to determine profit or loss.
What is Income Statement?
Mizzou's mascot's name.
Who is Truman the Tiger?
This is the name for the short, bold text at the top of a news article that summarizes the story.
What is Headline?
This term describes the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given year.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
This is the most common programming language taught in introductory CS courses, known for being easy to read and using indentation instead of curly braces.
What is Python?
When a business records a sale before the customer has paid, the amount owed is tracked here on the balance sheet.
What is Accounts Receivable?
Mizzou's tradition, which began in 1911, is widely credited as being the first ______ in the country.
What is Homecoming?
This inverted structure used in news writing places the most important information at the top of the story.
What is Inverted Pyramid?
This economic principle holds that the true cost of any choice is the value of the next best alternative you gave up.
What is Opportunity Cost?
A program that translates your code into a language the computer can understand is called this.
What is Compiler?
This basic accounting equation states that a company's resources equal the sum of what it owes and what its owners claim.
What is Assets = Liabilities + Equity?
This Hollywood A-lister and Oscar-winning producer attended Mizzou as a journalism major before dropping out in 1986, just two weeks before graduation, to pursue acting in Los Angeles.
Who is Brad Pitt?