This is the ability to be believed and trusted by your readers/viewers.
What is credibility?
100
In this function, journalists provide information about products, goods, and services.
What is the economic function?
100
This is the most important defense against libel.
What is truth?
100
This court case stemmed from high school students wearing black arm bands to school to protest the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines ISD?
100
This is the definition of plagiarism.
What is passing off the work of others as your own?
200
This is a journalist's ability to be fair, neutral observers of events and issues.
What is objectivity?
200
In this function, journalists provide features stories and photos that are not considered "hard news."
What is the entertainment function?
200
This defense against libel involves a publication promptly correcting false information.
What is admission of error?
200
This court case stemmed from a principal deleting stories from the school paper about teen pregnancy and divorce.
What is Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier?
200
This is what it's called when you steal words or ideas, which are not "tangible property."
What is stealing intellectual property?
300
This is what a journalist strives for by ensuring things are factual and no errors exist in a story.
What is accuracy?
300
In this function, the press reports what is likely to happen in the future.
What is the sentry function?
300
This defense against libel argues that you can report what is said in an official legislative or judicial session, as long as it is accurate and fair.
What is privilege?
300
In the Tinker case, this is who the court ultimately sided with.
Who is the students?
300
This is how you give an author credit if you use something from their work.
What is citations?
400
This is the difference between slander and libel?
What is slander is spoken defamation and libel is written defamation?
400
In this function, the media determine what topics the public thinks about and talks about.
What is the agenda-setting function?
400
This defense against libel argues that those who have thrust themselves into the public spotlight must accept the criticism and attention that come with it.
What is public officials and public figures?
400
In the Hazelwood case, this is who the courts ultimately sided with.
Who is the principal/school district?
400
This is the definition of self-plagiarism.
What is using a work you previously wrote and passing it off as new information/ideas?
500
This is what you can be charged for if you knowingly and maliciously publish false information about someone.
What is libel?
500
In this function, the press provides a public forum where all sorts of ideas are presented.
What is the marketplace function?
500
This defense against libel states that you may share your opinion in a review format, as long as the facts are still true.
What is fair comment?
500
These are the limits placed on student publications per the Hazelwood case.
What are you can't publish tories that are disruptive to the learning environment, are harmful, or are inappropriate for school-aged individuals?
500
This is why it's important that journalists DO NOT plagiarize in their publications.