FBLA Journalism Exam Questions and
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Blog - ✔✔Short for Web log. A Web-based publication in which articles, issued
periodically, appear in reverse chronological order
Bureau - ✔✔A news-gathering office maintained by a newspaper somewhere other tan
its central location. Papers may have bureaus in the next county; in the state capital; in
Washington, D.C.; or in foreign countries
Byline - ✔✔A line identifying the author of a story
Citizen Journalism - ✔✔A new form of media in which citizens actively participate in
gathering and writing information, often in the form of news
Closed-ended question - ✔✔A direct question designed to draw a specific response--for
example, "Will you be a candidate?"
Contextual advertising - ✔✔Advertising on a website that is directed to likely users of
that site based on demographic profiles
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, Convergence - ✔✔The coordination of print, broadcast and online reporting in a news
operation. The terms is defined in different ways by different people in the media
industry
Copy - ✔✔What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy
Copy desk - ✔✔The newspaper desk at which the final editing of stories is done,
headlines are written and pages are designed
Copy editor - ✔✔A person who checks, polishes and corrects stories written by
reporters. Usually copy editors write headlines for these stories; sometimes they decide
how to arrange soties and pictures on a page
Cover - ✔✔To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a
specific event. The reporter covering the police beat may be assigned to cover a murder,
for example
Crowdsourcing - ✔✔The practice of asking members of the public to provide
information for a story
Cutline - ✔✔The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph. The
terms dates from the days when photos were reproduced with etched zinc plates called
cuts.
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Blog - ✔✔Short for Web log. A Web-based publication in which articles, issued
periodically, appear in reverse chronological order
Bureau - ✔✔A news-gathering office maintained by a newspaper somewhere other tan
its central location. Papers may have bureaus in the next county; in the state capital; in
Washington, D.C.; or in foreign countries
Byline - ✔✔A line identifying the author of a story
Citizen Journalism - ✔✔A new form of media in which citizens actively participate in
gathering and writing information, often in the form of news
Closed-ended question - ✔✔A direct question designed to draw a specific response--for
example, "Will you be a candidate?"
Contextual advertising - ✔✔Advertising on a website that is directed to likely users of
that site based on demographic profiles
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, Convergence - ✔✔The coordination of print, broadcast and online reporting in a news
operation. The terms is defined in different ways by different people in the media
industry
Copy - ✔✔What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy
Copy desk - ✔✔The newspaper desk at which the final editing of stories is done,
headlines are written and pages are designed
Copy editor - ✔✔A person who checks, polishes and corrects stories written by
reporters. Usually copy editors write headlines for these stories; sometimes they decide
how to arrange soties and pictures on a page
Cover - ✔✔To keep abreast of significant developments on a beat or to report on a
specific event. The reporter covering the police beat may be assigned to cover a murder,
for example
Crowdsourcing - ✔✔The practice of asking members of the public to provide
information for a story
Cutline - ✔✔The caption that accompanies a newspaper or magazine photograph. The
terms dates from the days when photos were reproduced with etched zinc plates called
cuts.
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