FBLA JOURNALISM RELIABLE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Public Journalism - ✔✔The new (or rediscovered) approach to journalism that
emphasizes connections with community rather than separation from it.
Among the newspapers best known for practicing this are the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle and
The Charlotte(N.C.) observer.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
1. Not to sell your services for financial reward other that the salary you receive from
your employer.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
2. Not to take money from a person, group, or organization in return for ensuring their
story is covered by your news or organization.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
3. Not to promote a story based on any personal, group, pr partisan interests.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
4. Not to endorse or appear to endorse any organization, its products, and activities or
services.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
5. Not to promote commercial products or services.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
6. Not to promote our own media organization.
✔✔Sunshine Laws - ✔✔Laws requiring certain proceedings of government agencies to
be open or available to the public.
Also called OPEN MEETINGS LAW.
✔✔Op-ed Page - ✔✔The page opposite the editorial page, frequently reserved for
columns, letters to the editor, and personality profiles.
, ✔✔Teleprompter - ✔✔A mechanical or electronic device that projects broadcast copy
next to the television camera lens so that a newscaster can read it while appearing to
look straight into the lens.
✔✔Truth - ✔✔Correspondence to fact or reality.
It is the best defense against libel.
✔✔URL - ✔✔Short for Uniform Resource Locator, the address of an internet site.
✔✔Sidebar - ✔✔A secondary story that is run alongside a major story on the same topic
a story about a disaster, for example, may have a sidebar that tells what happened to a
single victim.
✔✔Stylebook - ✔✔A book of rules on grammar, punctuation, capitalization and
abbreviation in newspaper text. The AP and UPI publish similar style books that are
used by most papers.
✔✔Webcast - ✔✔The online alternative to broadcast.
✔✔Wiki - ✔✔A type of website that allows users to add or alter content. Wikipedia, for
example, is a user-written and user-updated encyclopedia.
✔✔Wikinews - ✔✔A wiki on which users can post or update information in news format.
Distinguish it from Wikipedia by saying, "on ________, each story is to be written as a
news story as opposed t o an encyclopedia article.
✔✔Summary Lead - ✔✔The first paragraph of a news story in which the writer presents
a synopsis of two or more actions rather than focusing on any one of them.
✔✔Soft Lead - ✔✔A lead that uses a quote, anecdote or other literary device to attract
the reader.
✔✔Storyboard - ✔✔Is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents.
✔✔Online Editor - ✔✔The editor of a website for a newspaper or television station.
✔✔Pulitzer Prize - ✔✔The most prestigious of journalism awards. It was established by
Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University.
✔✔Quote - ✔✔To report a source's exact words inside quotation marks.
✔✔PDF File - ✔✔Short for portable document format.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Public Journalism - ✔✔The new (or rediscovered) approach to journalism that
emphasizes connections with community rather than separation from it.
Among the newspapers best known for practicing this are the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle and
The Charlotte(N.C.) observer.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
1. Not to sell your services for financial reward other that the salary you receive from
your employer.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
2. Not to take money from a person, group, or organization in return for ensuring their
story is covered by your news or organization.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
3. Not to promote a story based on any personal, group, pr partisan interests.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
4. Not to endorse or appear to endorse any organization, its products, and activities or
services.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
5. Not to promote commercial products or services.
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔In Journalism Terms it means:
6. Not to promote our own media organization.
✔✔Sunshine Laws - ✔✔Laws requiring certain proceedings of government agencies to
be open or available to the public.
Also called OPEN MEETINGS LAW.
✔✔Op-ed Page - ✔✔The page opposite the editorial page, frequently reserved for
columns, letters to the editor, and personality profiles.
, ✔✔Teleprompter - ✔✔A mechanical or electronic device that projects broadcast copy
next to the television camera lens so that a newscaster can read it while appearing to
look straight into the lens.
✔✔Truth - ✔✔Correspondence to fact or reality.
It is the best defense against libel.
✔✔URL - ✔✔Short for Uniform Resource Locator, the address of an internet site.
✔✔Sidebar - ✔✔A secondary story that is run alongside a major story on the same topic
a story about a disaster, for example, may have a sidebar that tells what happened to a
single victim.
✔✔Stylebook - ✔✔A book of rules on grammar, punctuation, capitalization and
abbreviation in newspaper text. The AP and UPI publish similar style books that are
used by most papers.
✔✔Webcast - ✔✔The online alternative to broadcast.
✔✔Wiki - ✔✔A type of website that allows users to add or alter content. Wikipedia, for
example, is a user-written and user-updated encyclopedia.
✔✔Wikinews - ✔✔A wiki on which users can post or update information in news format.
Distinguish it from Wikipedia by saying, "on ________, each story is to be written as a
news story as opposed t o an encyclopedia article.
✔✔Summary Lead - ✔✔The first paragraph of a news story in which the writer presents
a synopsis of two or more actions rather than focusing on any one of them.
✔✔Soft Lead - ✔✔A lead that uses a quote, anecdote or other literary device to attract
the reader.
✔✔Storyboard - ✔✔Is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents.
✔✔Online Editor - ✔✔The editor of a website for a newspaper or television station.
✔✔Pulitzer Prize - ✔✔The most prestigious of journalism awards. It was established by
Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University.
✔✔Quote - ✔✔To report a source's exact words inside quotation marks.
✔✔PDF File - ✔✔Short for portable document format.
