FBLA JOURNALISM EVALUATION EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔News Meeting - ✔✔news conference or press conference is a media event in which
newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions
✔✔Direct Quotation - ✔✔in which you copy an author's words directly from the text and
use that exact wording in your essay
✔✔Indirect Quotation - ✔✔An indirect quotation is when the meaning but not the exact
words of something someone spoke is referred to - NO quotation marks; paraphrasing
✔✔Partial Quotation - ✔✔use of a direct quotation in which a middle section of the
quote has been removed; the text that has been directly quoted must be enclosed in
quotation marks and the source must be cited
✔✔Sound Bite - ✔✔a short extract from a recorded interview, chosen for its pungency
or appropriateness
✔✔Dialogue - ✔✔conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,
play, or movie
✔✔Attribution - ✔✔to show or indicate where information in a news story comes from
✔✔In-depth Reporting - ✔✔usually refers to taking a closer look at a news event,
person or issue; would involve more than the typical number of interviews than for a
breaking news story, a deeper level of background research and might result in a longer
story that explores different aspects of the subject in greater levels of detail
✔✔FOIA - ✔✔Freedom of Information Act - a United States federal law that grants the
public access to information possessed by government agencies; government officials
are required to disclose data unless it falls under one of the nine exceptions:
Classified information - damages national security
Internal information involving personnel rules and agency practices
Material specifically shielded from disclosure by another law
Confidential commercial or financial data (trade secrets)
Records that would be privileged in litigation
Information that would invade someone's privacy
Law enforcement records
Information related to government regulation of financial institutions
Certain geological/geographical data
✔✔Computer-assisted Reporting - ✔✔describes the use of computers to gather and
analyze the data necessary to write news stories
, ✔✔Visual Journalism - ✔✔practice of strategically combining words and images to
convey information
✔✔Breakout Box - ✔✔a critical piece of electrical test equipment used to support
integration testing, expedite maintenance, and streamline the troubleshooting process
at the system, subsystem, and component level by simplifying the access to test signals
✔✔Locator Maps - ✔✔a simple map used in cartography to show the location of a
particular geographic area within its larger and presumably more familiar context
✔✔Caption - ✔✔a title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration, cartoon,
or poster
✔✔Primary Headline - ✔✔main headline that captures reader attention, label
✔✔Secondary Headline - ✔✔Second tier of info that adds detail, sub headline
✔✔Banner - ✔✔a headline extending across the width of a newspaper page, usually
across the top of the front page
✔✔Ear - ✔✔a small box in either upper corner of a newspaper page, usually the front
page or split page, containing the name of or a symbol for the edition, a weather
bulletin, slogan, etc.
✔✔Digest - ✔✔a magazine, periodical, etc, that summarizes news of current events
✔✔Feature Story - ✔✔a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an
aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an
individual style
✔✔Human Interest Story - ✔✔a feature story that discusses a person, or people, or a
companion animal in an emotional way; presents people and their problems, concerns,
or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the
reader or viewer
✔✔Trend - ✔✔(of a topic) be the subject of many posts on a social media website within
a short period of time
✔✔Editorial - ✔✔a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an
opinion on a topical issue
✔✔Subjective Writing - ✔✔a style of writing that is not well suited for news reporting,
textbooks or other forms of writing in which the information or writing needs to be based
on pure facts (for opposite - writing based purely on facts - see objective writing)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔News Meeting - ✔✔news conference or press conference is a media event in which
newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions
✔✔Direct Quotation - ✔✔in which you copy an author's words directly from the text and
use that exact wording in your essay
✔✔Indirect Quotation - ✔✔An indirect quotation is when the meaning but not the exact
words of something someone spoke is referred to - NO quotation marks; paraphrasing
✔✔Partial Quotation - ✔✔use of a direct quotation in which a middle section of the
quote has been removed; the text that has been directly quoted must be enclosed in
quotation marks and the source must be cited
✔✔Sound Bite - ✔✔a short extract from a recorded interview, chosen for its pungency
or appropriateness
✔✔Dialogue - ✔✔conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,
play, or movie
✔✔Attribution - ✔✔to show or indicate where information in a news story comes from
✔✔In-depth Reporting - ✔✔usually refers to taking a closer look at a news event,
person or issue; would involve more than the typical number of interviews than for a
breaking news story, a deeper level of background research and might result in a longer
story that explores different aspects of the subject in greater levels of detail
✔✔FOIA - ✔✔Freedom of Information Act - a United States federal law that grants the
public access to information possessed by government agencies; government officials
are required to disclose data unless it falls under one of the nine exceptions:
Classified information - damages national security
Internal information involving personnel rules and agency practices
Material specifically shielded from disclosure by another law
Confidential commercial or financial data (trade secrets)
Records that would be privileged in litigation
Information that would invade someone's privacy
Law enforcement records
Information related to government regulation of financial institutions
Certain geological/geographical data
✔✔Computer-assisted Reporting - ✔✔describes the use of computers to gather and
analyze the data necessary to write news stories
, ✔✔Visual Journalism - ✔✔practice of strategically combining words and images to
convey information
✔✔Breakout Box - ✔✔a critical piece of electrical test equipment used to support
integration testing, expedite maintenance, and streamline the troubleshooting process
at the system, subsystem, and component level by simplifying the access to test signals
✔✔Locator Maps - ✔✔a simple map used in cartography to show the location of a
particular geographic area within its larger and presumably more familiar context
✔✔Caption - ✔✔a title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration, cartoon,
or poster
✔✔Primary Headline - ✔✔main headline that captures reader attention, label
✔✔Secondary Headline - ✔✔Second tier of info that adds detail, sub headline
✔✔Banner - ✔✔a headline extending across the width of a newspaper page, usually
across the top of the front page
✔✔Ear - ✔✔a small box in either upper corner of a newspaper page, usually the front
page or split page, containing the name of or a symbol for the edition, a weather
bulletin, slogan, etc.
✔✔Digest - ✔✔a magazine, periodical, etc, that summarizes news of current events
✔✔Feature Story - ✔✔a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an
aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an
individual style
✔✔Human Interest Story - ✔✔a feature story that discusses a person, or people, or a
companion animal in an emotional way; presents people and their problems, concerns,
or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the
reader or viewer
✔✔Trend - ✔✔(of a topic) be the subject of many posts on a social media website within
a short period of time
✔✔Editorial - ✔✔a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an
opinion on a topical issue
✔✔Subjective Writing - ✔✔a style of writing that is not well suited for news reporting,
textbooks or other forms of writing in which the information or writing needs to be based
on pure facts (for opposite - writing based purely on facts - see objective writing)
