FBLA JOURNALISM 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Futures file - ✔✔A collection-filed according to date- of newspaper stories, letters,
notes and other information to remind editors about stories to assign. See also tickler
✔✔Gatekeeper - ✔✔An editor who determines what readers or viewers read, hear, and
see.
✔✔Graf - ✔✔A shortened form of paragraph, as in "Give me two grafs on that fire."
✔✔Graphics editors - ✔✔Usually, the editor responsible for all non photographic
illustrations in a newspaper, including information graphics, maps, and illustrations
✔✔Hard lead - ✔✔A lead that reports a new development or a newly discovered fact.
See also soft lead
✔✔Hard news - ✔✔Coverage of the actions of government or business; or the reporting
of an event, such as a crime, an accident, or a speech. The time element often is
important.
✔✔HTML - ✔✔Short for hypertext markup language, the coding language used to
create texts on the Web.
✔✔Hyperlink - ✔✔A connection between two places on the Web
✔✔Hyperlocal - ✔✔Information that is intensely local in its emphasis.
✔✔Hypertext - ✔✔A Web document coded in HTML
✔✔Information graphic - ✔✔A visual representation of data
✔✔Interest - ✔✔A measure of the cumulative effect of all the news values. The more
elements of the six news values that appear in the story, the more interesting that story
will be to readers
✔✔Invasion of Privacy - ✔✔Violation of a person's right to be left alone
✔✔Inverted pyramid - ✔✔The organization of a news story in which information is
arranged in descending order of importance
✔✔Investigative Reporting - ✔✔The pursuit of information that has been concealed,
such as evidence of wrongdoing
, ✔✔Lay out - ✔✔V. To prepare page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are
to be placed in the newspaper; now done with design software.
✔✔Layout - ✔✔n. The completed page drawing, or page dummy
✔✔Lead - ✔✔The first paragraphy or first several paragraphs of a newspaper story
(sometimes spelled lede); the story given the best display on Page One; or a tip.
✔✔Libel - ✔✔Damage to a person's reputation caused by a false written statement that
brings the person into hatred, contempt or ridicule or injures his or her business or
occupational pursuit.
✔✔Media Fragmentation - ✔✔The impact of the internet and digital media on traditional
media, such as newspapers and broadcast television. The addition of many new
websites and social media divides or fragments the audience into smaller parts
✔✔Multimedia Editor - ✔✔An editor responsible for coordinating or producing news
content for various media.
✔✔Multimedia Journalist - ✔✔A journalist capable of producing content in more than
one medium, such as radio and newspapers
✔✔New media - ✔✔Emerging forms of computer-delivered news
✔✔News conference - ✔✔An interview session in which someone submits to questions
from reporters. Also called a press conference
✔✔News director - ✔✔The top news executive of a local television station
✔✔News release - ✔✔An item that is sent out by a group or individual seeking publicity.
Also called a handout or press release
✔✔News value - ✔✔A measure of how important or interesting a story is.
✔✔Not for attribution - ✔✔An expression indicating that information may not be
ascribed to its source.
✔✔Nut paragraph - ✔✔A paragraph that summarizes the key element or elements of a
story. A nut paragraph is usually found in stories not written in inverted-pyramid form.
Also called a nut graf.
✔✔Off the record - ✔✔An expression that usually means "Don't quote me." Some
sources and reporters use it to mean "Don't print this." Phrases with similar, and equally
ambiguous, meanings are "not for attribution" and "for background only."
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Futures file - ✔✔A collection-filed according to date- of newspaper stories, letters,
notes and other information to remind editors about stories to assign. See also tickler
✔✔Gatekeeper - ✔✔An editor who determines what readers or viewers read, hear, and
see.
✔✔Graf - ✔✔A shortened form of paragraph, as in "Give me two grafs on that fire."
✔✔Graphics editors - ✔✔Usually, the editor responsible for all non photographic
illustrations in a newspaper, including information graphics, maps, and illustrations
✔✔Hard lead - ✔✔A lead that reports a new development or a newly discovered fact.
See also soft lead
✔✔Hard news - ✔✔Coverage of the actions of government or business; or the reporting
of an event, such as a crime, an accident, or a speech. The time element often is
important.
✔✔HTML - ✔✔Short for hypertext markup language, the coding language used to
create texts on the Web.
✔✔Hyperlink - ✔✔A connection between two places on the Web
✔✔Hyperlocal - ✔✔Information that is intensely local in its emphasis.
✔✔Hypertext - ✔✔A Web document coded in HTML
✔✔Information graphic - ✔✔A visual representation of data
✔✔Interest - ✔✔A measure of the cumulative effect of all the news values. The more
elements of the six news values that appear in the story, the more interesting that story
will be to readers
✔✔Invasion of Privacy - ✔✔Violation of a person's right to be left alone
✔✔Inverted pyramid - ✔✔The organization of a news story in which information is
arranged in descending order of importance
✔✔Investigative Reporting - ✔✔The pursuit of information that has been concealed,
such as evidence of wrongdoing
, ✔✔Lay out - ✔✔V. To prepare page drawings to indicate where stories and pictures are
to be placed in the newspaper; now done with design software.
✔✔Layout - ✔✔n. The completed page drawing, or page dummy
✔✔Lead - ✔✔The first paragraphy or first several paragraphs of a newspaper story
(sometimes spelled lede); the story given the best display on Page One; or a tip.
✔✔Libel - ✔✔Damage to a person's reputation caused by a false written statement that
brings the person into hatred, contempt or ridicule or injures his or her business or
occupational pursuit.
✔✔Media Fragmentation - ✔✔The impact of the internet and digital media on traditional
media, such as newspapers and broadcast television. The addition of many new
websites and social media divides or fragments the audience into smaller parts
✔✔Multimedia Editor - ✔✔An editor responsible for coordinating or producing news
content for various media.
✔✔Multimedia Journalist - ✔✔A journalist capable of producing content in more than
one medium, such as radio and newspapers
✔✔New media - ✔✔Emerging forms of computer-delivered news
✔✔News conference - ✔✔An interview session in which someone submits to questions
from reporters. Also called a press conference
✔✔News director - ✔✔The top news executive of a local television station
✔✔News release - ✔✔An item that is sent out by a group or individual seeking publicity.
Also called a handout or press release
✔✔News value - ✔✔A measure of how important or interesting a story is.
✔✔Not for attribution - ✔✔An expression indicating that information may not be
ascribed to its source.
✔✔Nut paragraph - ✔✔A paragraph that summarizes the key element or elements of a
story. A nut paragraph is usually found in stories not written in inverted-pyramid form.
Also called a nut graf.
✔✔Off the record - ✔✔An expression that usually means "Don't quote me." Some
sources and reporters use it to mean "Don't print this." Phrases with similar, and equally
ambiguous, meanings are "not for attribution" and "for background only."
