FBLA JOURNALISM TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Truth - ✔✔Correspondence to fact or reality. Truth is the best defense against libel
✔✔URL - ✔✔Short for Uniform Resource Locator, the address of an internet site.
✔✔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
✔✔ 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
✔✔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.
✔✔Deadline - ✔✔The time by which a reporter, editor or desk must have all scheduled
work completed
✔✔Deep background - ✔✔Information that may be used but that cannot be attributed to
either a person or a position.
✔✔Desk - ✔✔A term used by reporters to refer to the city editor's or copy editor's
position, as in "The desk wants this story by noon"
✔✔Editor - ✔✔The top-ranking individual in te news department of a newspaper, also
known as the editor-in-chief. The term may refer as well to those at any level who edit
copy
✔✔Editorial department - ✔✔Generally, the news department that is responsible for all
newspaper content except advertising. At some papers this term refers to the
department responsible for the editorial page only.
✔✔Editorialize - ✔✔To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story
or headline. Most newspapers restrict opinion to analysis stories, columns and editorials
✔✔Facebook - ✔✔A social networking site that connects friends and acquaintances. It
also offers businesses, including news media, an opportunity to connect with
customers.
✔✔Fair comment and criticism - ✔✔Opinion delivered about the performance of anyone
in the public eye. Such opinion is legally protected as long as it is not malicious and
reporters do not misstate any of the facts on which it is based.
✔✔Freedom of Information Act - ✔✔A law passed in 1966 to make it easier to obtain
information from federal agencies. The law was amended in 1974 to improve access to
government records
WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Truth - ✔✔Correspondence to fact or reality. Truth is the best defense against libel
✔✔URL - ✔✔Short for Uniform Resource Locator, the address of an internet site.
✔✔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
✔✔ 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
✔✔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.
✔✔Deadline - ✔✔The time by which a reporter, editor or desk must have all scheduled
work completed
✔✔Deep background - ✔✔Information that may be used but that cannot be attributed to
either a person or a position.
✔✔Desk - ✔✔A term used by reporters to refer to the city editor's or copy editor's
position, as in "The desk wants this story by noon"
✔✔Editor - ✔✔The top-ranking individual in te news department of a newspaper, also
known as the editor-in-chief. The term may refer as well to those at any level who edit
copy
✔✔Editorial department - ✔✔Generally, the news department that is responsible for all
newspaper content except advertising. At some papers this term refers to the
department responsible for the editorial page only.
✔✔Editorialize - ✔✔To inject the reporter's or the newspaper's opinion into a news story
or headline. Most newspapers restrict opinion to analysis stories, columns and editorials
✔✔Facebook - ✔✔A social networking site that connects friends and acquaintances. It
also offers businesses, including news media, an opportunity to connect with
customers.
✔✔Fair comment and criticism - ✔✔Opinion delivered about the performance of anyone
in the public eye. Such opinion is legally protected as long as it is not malicious and
reporters do not misstate any of the facts on which it is based.
✔✔Freedom of Information Act - ✔✔A law passed in 1966 to make it easier to obtain
information from federal agencies. The law was amended in 1974 to improve access to
government records
