JOURNALISM FBLA EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Accuracy - Answers - getting all the facts right and always seeking the truth
Advertising Manager - Answers - someone who plans and directs the promotional and
advertising campaigns of companies in order to generate interest in a product or service
Anchor - Answers - 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
Anecdote - Answers - a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an
interesting or amusing nature, or an obscure historical or biographical account
AP Style - Answers - Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law - an
English Stylebook (grammar style and usage guide) created by American journalists
connected with the Associated Press in order to achieve a way to standardize mass
communications; published in 1953, updated biennially over the next 20 years; its
simplified rules of grammar (dropping Oxford comma and using figures for all numbers
above 9) have caused corporate marketing and public relations departments to also
adopt it
Attribution - Answers - to show or indicate where information in a news story comes
from
Banner - Answers - a headline extending across the width of a newspaper page,
usually across the top of the front page
Beat - Answers - genre of journalism that can be described as the craft of in-depth
reporting on a particular issue, sector, organization or institution over time
Blog - Answers - Short for Web log. A Web-based publication in which articles, issued
periodically, appear in reverse chronological order
Breakout Box - Answers - 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
Budget - Answers - an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time
Bureau - Answers - A news-gathering office maintained by a newspaper somewhere
other than its central location. Papers may have bureaus in the next county; in the state
capital; in Washington, D.C.; or in foreign countries
Business Manager - Answers - a person who drives the work of others in order to run a
major business efficiently and make a large profit
,Byline - Answers - A line identifying the author of a story
Caption - Answers - a title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration,
cartoon, or poster
Censorship - Answers - the prevention of printing or broadcasting materials that are
considered by some to be objectionable
Central Point - Answers - What the story is really about, what question or questions the
story will answer to be worthwhile, why people need or will want to know about it, if it
reflects a larger trend or theme, etc.
Circulation - Answers - the number of copies of newspapers distributed on an average
day; one of the principal factors used to set advertising rates; not always the same as
copies sold, since some newspapers are distributed without cost to the reader
Citizen Journalism - Answers - A new form of media in which citizens actively
participate in gathering and writing information, often in the form of news
Closed - Answers - ended question- A direct question designed to draw a specific
response--for example, "Will you be a candidate?"
Column - Answers - 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
Computer - Answers - assisted Reporting- describes the use of computers to gather
and analyze the data necessary to write news stories
Confidential Source - Answers - a person who provides information to a law-
enforcement agency or to a journalist on the express or implied guarantee of anonymity
Contact Sheet - Answers - a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of
the negatives on a roll of film have been contact printed
Content Editor - Answers - (also called developmental editing or substantive editing),
as the name implies, involves checking the content
Contextual advertising - Answers - Advertising on a website that is directed to likely
users of that site based on demographic profiles
Convergence - Answers - 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 - Answers - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy
Copy desk - Answers - The newspaper desk at which the final editing of stories is
done, headlines are written and pages are designed
Copy editor - Answers - 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 stories and pictures on a page
Correspondent - Answers - a reporter
Cover - Answers - 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
Critic - Answers - a person who judges the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works,
especially one who does so professionally
Crop - Answers - cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture
or to fit a given space
Crowdsourcing - Answers - The practice of asking members of the public to provide
information for a story
Cutline - Answers - 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 - Answers - The time by which a reporter, editor or desk must have all
scheduled work completed
Deep background - Answers - Information that may be used but that cannot be
attributed to either a person or a position.
Depth of Field - Answers - the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects
that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera
Desk - Answers - 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"
Dialogue - Answers - conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,
play, or movie
Digest - Answers - a magazine, periodical, etc, that summarizes news of current
events
Accuracy - Answers - getting all the facts right and always seeking the truth
Advertising Manager - Answers - someone who plans and directs the promotional and
advertising campaigns of companies in order to generate interest in a product or service
Anchor - Answers - 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
Anecdote - Answers - a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an
interesting or amusing nature, or an obscure historical or biographical account
AP Style - Answers - Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law - an
English Stylebook (grammar style and usage guide) created by American journalists
connected with the Associated Press in order to achieve a way to standardize mass
communications; published in 1953, updated biennially over the next 20 years; its
simplified rules of grammar (dropping Oxford comma and using figures for all numbers
above 9) have caused corporate marketing and public relations departments to also
adopt it
Attribution - Answers - to show or indicate where information in a news story comes
from
Banner - Answers - a headline extending across the width of a newspaper page,
usually across the top of the front page
Beat - Answers - genre of journalism that can be described as the craft of in-depth
reporting on a particular issue, sector, organization or institution over time
Blog - Answers - Short for Web log. A Web-based publication in which articles, issued
periodically, appear in reverse chronological order
Breakout Box - Answers - 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
Budget - Answers - an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time
Bureau - Answers - A news-gathering office maintained by a newspaper somewhere
other than its central location. Papers may have bureaus in the next county; in the state
capital; in Washington, D.C.; or in foreign countries
Business Manager - Answers - a person who drives the work of others in order to run a
major business efficiently and make a large profit
,Byline - Answers - A line identifying the author of a story
Caption - Answers - a title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration,
cartoon, or poster
Censorship - Answers - the prevention of printing or broadcasting materials that are
considered by some to be objectionable
Central Point - Answers - What the story is really about, what question or questions the
story will answer to be worthwhile, why people need or will want to know about it, if it
reflects a larger trend or theme, etc.
Circulation - Answers - the number of copies of newspapers distributed on an average
day; one of the principal factors used to set advertising rates; not always the same as
copies sold, since some newspapers are distributed without cost to the reader
Citizen Journalism - Answers - A new form of media in which citizens actively
participate in gathering and writing information, often in the form of news
Closed - Answers - ended question- A direct question designed to draw a specific
response--for example, "Will you be a candidate?"
Column - Answers - 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
Computer - Answers - assisted Reporting- describes the use of computers to gather
and analyze the data necessary to write news stories
Confidential Source - Answers - a person who provides information to a law-
enforcement agency or to a journalist on the express or implied guarantee of anonymity
Contact Sheet - Answers - a piece of photographic paper onto which several or all of
the negatives on a roll of film have been contact printed
Content Editor - Answers - (also called developmental editing or substantive editing),
as the name implies, involves checking the content
Contextual advertising - Answers - Advertising on a website that is directed to likely
users of that site based on demographic profiles
Convergence - Answers - 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 - Answers - What reporters write. A story is a piece of copy
Copy desk - Answers - The newspaper desk at which the final editing of stories is
done, headlines are written and pages are designed
Copy editor - Answers - 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 stories and pictures on a page
Correspondent - Answers - a reporter
Cover - Answers - 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
Critic - Answers - a person who judges the merits of literary, artistic, or musical works,
especially one who does so professionally
Crop - Answers - cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture
or to fit a given space
Crowdsourcing - Answers - The practice of asking members of the public to provide
information for a story
Cutline - Answers - 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 - Answers - The time by which a reporter, editor or desk must have all
scheduled work completed
Deep background - Answers - Information that may be used but that cannot be
attributed to either a person or a position.
Depth of Field - Answers - the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects
that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera
Desk - Answers - 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"
Dialogue - Answers - conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,
play, or movie
Digest - Answers - a magazine, periodical, etc, that summarizes news of current
events
