Journalism Skills
What is the purpose of a hook in a work of journalism?
to engage the reader in the topic of focus and in the author's story
The Light of Truth is a collection of journalistic works by __________
Hoop Dreams took place in which U.S. State (for the most part)?
Illinois
How do you spell my last name?
Biondi
The three main goals (1 word each) that we've talked about with journalism are to...
inform, intrigue, and inspire
Progressive Era journalists who exposed larger-scale problems in society were often called "_________" , a term coined by President Theodore Roosevelt.
muckrakers
What type of narration did we see in the segment about online dating scams that we watched?
2nd person narration
Which 4 teams are in the World Cup semifinals?
Argentina, Croatia, France, and Morocco
If a documentary maker makes a shot that involves a person looking directly at the camera and describing their perspective on what's happening in the scene, that type of shot is called a...
talking head
Ida Tarbell famously wrote about which major company?
The Standard Oil Company
Which famous journalist, and which famous world leader does Al Gore quote in An Inconvenient Truth (in a clip that we watched)?
Upton Sinclair and Winston Churchill
What is the acceleration due to gravity (on Earth) in m/s2?
9.8 m/s2
What's the one question you should always ask at the beginning of an interview, and the one question you should always ask at the end of an interview?
Beginning: Is it ok if I record/take notes? (Is this on the record?)
End: Is there anything you'd like to add?
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle focuses on the meat packing industry in which American city?
Chicago
What are the names of the 2 protagonists of Hoop Dreams?
Arthur and William
What classroom are we in?
Seaverns 108
A detailed, vivid description of a moment in the story that opens the introduction of a piece of journalism is also called a...
The magazine that we read about that published Progressive Era journalists' work, balancing progressive reform with sensationalism, was called ___________.
McClure's
Al Gore introduced himself as what in An Inconvenient Truth?
The Former Next President of the United States
How many Pokémon were there in the original generation?
151