Common Terms
First Amendment and terms
Quoting and Writing
Court Cases
Soft or Hard News
100
What are the 3 ways a CIRCLE can be used when copy editing a story?
Abbreviate, Spelled Wrong or Use Numerals
100
What is slander?
Verbal words to cause harm to someone
100
What is 1 main difference between a direct quote and an indirect quote?
The quotations or Indirect quotes sums up, when direct is word for word
100
In this court case students wore armbands to school to protest a war and their rights.
Tinker v. Des Moines
100
A story about the president being shot would be what type of news?
Hard news
200
What is the correct proportion of direct to indirect quotes?
50/50
200
What is libel?
Written words to hurt someone
200
What is a transition or transitional statement?
Words, phrases or paragraphs that hold a story together.
200
What is the court case that a student presented a speech and used elaborate and explicit sexual metaphors?
Bethel v. Fraser
200
A story in the Gardner News about the school shutting down, would be what type of story?
Hard news
300
Which one is NOT an example of how to write a lead: HOW, WHEN or WHY?
When
300
What are the 5 freedoms of the first amendment?
Speech, Petition, Religion, Press, and Assembly
300
What is it called when you put the speaker's ideas and words into your own (the reporter's) words?
Paraphrasing
300
What war was going on during the Tinker v. Des Moines court case?
What is Vietnam War
300
A feature story over the dance team going to the Orange Bowl, months down the road?
What is soft news
400
What do you always do when starting a direct quote?
Start a new paragraph
400
What is prior review?
Where the principal or someone else higher up has the right to review the paper and possibly restrain certain stories.
400
What is the 1st paragraph called in journalism?
Lead
400
What court case was created because a principal deleted 2 pages of the paper, with stories about teen pregnancy being on them?
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
400
Michael Jackson's death, at that time is considered:
Hard News
500
What is redundancy?
Repeating or saying something over and over again.
500
What is (can you say) the 1st Amendment?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
500
What type of quote is it when it is written in FIRST person?
Direct Quote
500
What did the principal do in the Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier?
What is prior restraint
500
School dance policy changed in a Florida high school is considered:
Soft news
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