FBLA JOURNALISM FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔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)
✔✔Column - ✔✔a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other
publication, where a writer expresses his/her own opinion in few columns allotted to
him/her by the newspaper organization
, ✔✔Critic - ✔✔a person who judges the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works,
especially one who does so professionally
✔✔Umbrella Lead - ✔✔sets the foundation for creating newscast opens as well as
designing team coverage
✔✔Anchor - ✔✔a person who is the main broadcaster on a program of news, sports,
etc., and who usually also serves as coordinator of all participating broadcasters during
the program
✔✔Producer - ✔✔a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of
making of a movie or broadcast or for staging a play, opera, etc
✔✔Sequencing - ✔✔a series of related scenes or shots, as those taking place in one
locale or at one time, that make up one episode of the film narrative
✔✔Pan - ✔✔to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or
horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view or allow the film to
record a panorama (ex - to pan from one end of the field to another during a football
game)
✔✔Subheads - ✔✔a heading that precedes the main text, or a group of paragraphs of
the main text; helps inform about or summarize the topic; long or complex articles often
have more than one; are one type of entry point that help readers make choices, such
as where to begin (or continue) reading
✔✔Photo journalism - ✔✔the art or practice of communicating news by photographs,
especially in magazines
✔✔Still - ✔✔an ordinary static photograph as opposed to a motion picture, especially a
single shot from a movie
✔✔Contact Sheet - ✔✔a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of the
negatives on a roll of film have been contact printed
✔✔Photo Essay - ✔✔an essay or short article consisting of text and numerous
photographs
✔✔Crop - ✔✔cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to
fit a given space
✔✔Ladder - ✔✔a planning device designating what goes on specific pages (a layout for
a newspaper or yearbook)
WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔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)
✔✔Column - ✔✔a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other
publication, where a writer expresses his/her own opinion in few columns allotted to
him/her by the newspaper organization
, ✔✔Critic - ✔✔a person who judges the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works,
especially one who does so professionally
✔✔Umbrella Lead - ✔✔sets the foundation for creating newscast opens as well as
designing team coverage
✔✔Anchor - ✔✔a person who is the main broadcaster on a program of news, sports,
etc., and who usually also serves as coordinator of all participating broadcasters during
the program
✔✔Producer - ✔✔a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of
making of a movie or broadcast or for staging a play, opera, etc
✔✔Sequencing - ✔✔a series of related scenes or shots, as those taking place in one
locale or at one time, that make up one episode of the film narrative
✔✔Pan - ✔✔to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or
horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view or allow the film to
record a panorama (ex - to pan from one end of the field to another during a football
game)
✔✔Subheads - ✔✔a heading that precedes the main text, or a group of paragraphs of
the main text; helps inform about or summarize the topic; long or complex articles often
have more than one; are one type of entry point that help readers make choices, such
as where to begin (or continue) reading
✔✔Photo journalism - ✔✔the art or practice of communicating news by photographs,
especially in magazines
✔✔Still - ✔✔an ordinary static photograph as opposed to a motion picture, especially a
single shot from a movie
✔✔Contact Sheet - ✔✔a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of the
negatives on a roll of film have been contact printed
✔✔Photo Essay - ✔✔an essay or short article consisting of text and numerous
photographs
✔✔Crop - ✔✔cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to
fit a given space
✔✔Ladder - ✔✔a planning device designating what goes on specific pages (a layout for
a newspaper or yearbook)
