Journalism Jeopardy

Writing

100

The use of any part of another's writing and passing it off as your own.

What is plagiarism?

200

Giving credit to someone's work.

What is attributing?

300

Ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events.

What is objectivity/neutral?

400

To put a speaker's words into the reporter's own words without changing the meaning or inserting opinion. Used to clarify lengthy, fuzzy or complicated thoughts. They do not have to be used in quotation marks.

What is paraphrase?

Editing

100

______ 1. Smith recently received his (a) Master’s Degree. (b) master’s degree. (c) M.A.

What is B?

200

______ 2. The play begins at 8 (a) PM (b) P.M. (c) pm (d) p.m. in the auditorium.

What is D?

300

______ 3. Labor Day falls on (a) September 4 (b) September 4th (c) Sept. 4 (d) Sept. 4th this year.

What is C?

400

(a) Ph.d. (b) PH.D. (c) Ph.D. (d) ph.d.

What is C?

Articles

100

Stories that are revolved around game summaries, previews and player profiles

What is sports?

200

A story that focuses more on entertaining than on simply informing the audience. These may be written on virtually any topic.

What is feature story?

300

A relatively short, usually unsigned column offering the opinion of the newspaper on a variety of topics.

What is editorial?

400

News that occurred right away and needs to highlighted asap

What is breaking news?

Reporting

100

Copy used under or with a photograph. It identifies what or who is in the picture and where it is taken. (Also called cutline)

What is caption?

200

A brief description of the contents of a news story printed in larger type, usually above the story.

What is headline.

300

A person assigned to check the same news source for each issue of the paper (for example, art, music, theater, police administration).

What is a reporter?

400

A chief copy editor.

What is news editor?