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SPJ Code of Ethics
Parts of a Newspaper
Media Law
Design
Miscellaneous
100

This is what SPJ stands for.

What is the Society of Professional Journalists?
100

This is where you would find the breaking news and biggest news headlines of the day.

What is the front page?

100

This involved saying something aloud publicly that is untrue and damages a person's reputation, hurts their ability to make money and provide for themselves and/or their family, and/or endangers their safety.

What is slander?

100

Two pages of a yearbook that are side by side are called this.

What is a spread?

100

This is the pretty much the only kind of photo editing that is allowed in journalism in which unimportant parts of a photo are cut out of the frame.

What is photo cropping?

200

This Code of Ethics has to do with not giving up in search of the true story and reporting it when you find it.

What is Seek Truth and Report It?
200

This is where you would find a game brief or a player profile.

What is the Sports section?

200

This involved writing something publicly that is untrue and damages a person's reputation, hurts their ability to make money and provide for themselves and/or their family, and/or endangers their safety.

What is libel?

200

In a yearbook, content is organized into ______ on spreads.

What are modules?
200

True or false: It is always unethical in journalism to 'photoshop' someone or something into or out of a photo.

True

300

This Code of Ethics has to do with protecting sensitive groups' information and privacy, respecting others, and not making things worse than they already are.

What is Minimize Harm?

300

This is where you would find an album review or a editorial.

What is the Opinion section?

300

This law protects intellectual property, like a music video, from being published in the news in its entirety. Parts can be published for review or news purposes, but not the entire thing.

What is copyright law?

300

In a yearbook, the biggest module on the spread is called the _______.

What is the dominant module?

300
When a journalist makes a mistake and publishes something that is untrue or unclear, this is published to correct that mistake.

What is a retraction?

400
This Code of Ethics has to do with not allowing yourself to be bribed or biased into telling anything but the truth.

What is Act Independently?

400

This section of the newspaper includes articles on major events happening in the world. It is typically the biggest section of the newspaper.

What is the News section?

400

This is the exception to copyright law -- it includes allowing copyrighted material to be used for educational or journalistic purposes.

What is fair use?

400

This includes timelines, Q&As, maps, charts, graphs, surveys and polls, and more.

What is alternative coverage?

400
This is the space that is left in front of and above a person's head in a photo.

What is lead room?

500
This Code of Ethics has to do with taking responsibility for your actions and/or mistakes, as well as being honest about how you found out the information you found.

What is Be Accountable and Transparent?

500

This is the only section of the newspaper where content can be paid for to be published.

What is the Ads section?

500

This law differs from state to state and has the ability to legally protect journalists for keeping your sources private and anonymous.

What are shield laws?

500

This is the design principle wherein the meaning of the words in the design match the way the design looks. (Example -- the word 'contrast' written in black and white to highlight the contrast)

What is visual-verbal unity?

500
Attribution is the proper way of stating who said something in a quote. Write proper attribution to this quote by Ms. Thornton: "I don't know how to swim," ________________.

"I don't know how to swim," Ms. Thornton said.