Vocabulary
Sentence Structure/Punctuation
The Eye of the Tiger
News Article Structure
PSA Project
100

Someone who finds and presents information as news to the audiences of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, or the Internet is a:

What is a reporter?

100

WHEN WRITING QUOTED INFORMATION, THE END PUNCTUATION IS ALWAYS PLACED HERE.

What is inside the quotation mark?

100

The Eye of the Tiger committee that is responsible for the layout, color choices, and font sizes for the newsletter is the:

What is the Design/Layout Committee?

100

IN THE ARTICLE ABOVE, THE AUTHOR'S NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE:

WHAT IS THE BYLINE?

100

PSA stands for:

What is Public Service Announcement?

200

RULES ABOUT BEHAVIOR AND ACTIONS MOST PEOPLE FOLLOW

What are ethics?

200

DAILY DOUBLE: After an interview, a journalist decides to reduce information without omitting important facts. He or she also selects words that resemble the words used by the interviewee. This strategy is known as:

What is paraphrase?

200

The committee that is responsible for submitting supportive images captured at WECA to the design/layout committee is the:

What is the Technology Committee?

200

This part of a news article should be written in a way that will prompt the audience's curiosity and motivate them to read the full article.

What is the headline?

200

The MAIN purpose of a PSA is to:

What is inform?

300

DAILY DOUBLE: Printed information that is false

What is libel?

300

WHEN WRITING ONE OF THESE, A COMMA IS INSERTED AT THE BEGINNING AND THE FIRST LETTER IS CAPITALIZED.

What is a direct quote?

300

The initial discussion about the E.O.T. design and layout included Mrs. Wright's not so popular suggestion about a news caption coming out of this part of a lion.

What is the tiger's mouth?

300

The part of a news article that contains a significant amount of information and details is the:

What is the body?

300

The FIRST step in the creation of a PSA is to:

What is identify a topic?

400

This specific freedom under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution involves the right to publish and disseminate information, thoughts, and opinions without restraint or censorship.

What is Freedom of Press?

400

When a journalist decides to only use a few of the exact words of what someone says, they are using a:

Partial Quotation

400

This phase of creating a newsletter involves all eyes "on deck" in order to identify necessary corrections or revisions prior to a newsletter's release.

What is the editing phase?

400

The FIVE facts necessary for a summary lead story are:

What are who, what, when, where, and why?

400

When creating a storyboard, the creator ensures that each frame corresponds with the:

What is script?

500

THIS IS NECESSARY WHEN A JOURNALIST RELEASES INCORRECT, FLAWED, AND ERRONEOUS INFORMATION.

What is a retraction?

500

THE ITALICIZED PORTION OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE IS KNOWN AS:

The U.S. has no plans to invade,” said White House press secretary Jim Smith.

What is attribution?

500

The following example would be placed in which Eye of the Tiger news category?

                Cell Phones in Our Schools 

When you were a kid did you ever have to call your mother and the school wouldn't let you? Kids today still have to call their mothers sometimes but their school won’t let them! Schools have become more strict about phones even when it's an emergency. So that’s why it would be a great thing if schools  would let us have cellphones in school.

What is Editorial?

500

DAILY DOUBLE: The primary purpose of this type of Journalism is to address people as citizens who are valued in a community.

What is Public Journalism?

500

A public service announcement is this TYPE of journalism.

What is Broadcast Journalism?