Test 1

Question 0

What are advantages of covering a beat?

Answer 0

• Reporter knows the players
• Reporter establishes trust
• Reporter knows history and details

Question 1

What is a beat?

Answer 1

Specific area of news coverage

Question 2

What is the disadvantages of a beat?

Answer 2

• Reporter gets to close to sources
• Reporter uses too much jargon
• Reporter loses interest, credibility and objectivity

Question 3

What is convergence?

Answer 3

Meting multiple forms of media on the same platform (merging multiple skill sets)

Question 4

What qualities give a story news value?

Answer 4

Prominence, relevance, timelessness proximity, usefulness and interest

Question 5

What professional standards apply to every news story?

Answer 5

Accuracy, fairness, context, and clarity

Question 6

Hard news

Answer 6

Serious

Question 7

Soft news

Answer 7

Not as serious

Question 8

Verification

Answer 8

Making sure information is accurate

Question 9

What is a rapport?

Answer 9

Connection with a person (positive relationship)

Question 10

What are close ended questions?

Answer 10

Questions that can be answered with one word

Question 11

What is an open ended question?

Answer 11

A question that can lead to more questions

Question 12

What is a quote?

Answer 12

The exact words, quotation marks

Question 13

What are alternatives to quoting?

Answer 13

Paraphrasing, using partial quotes or ellipsis, or leaving it out

Question 14

What is paraphrasing?

Answer 14

Using your own words

Question 15

What does off the record mean?

Answer 15

Not used in the story, but can build for a better story

Question 16

What does on the record mean?

Answer 16

Information used in the story

Question 17

Background

Answer 17

Information that may be attributed by title but not by name

Question 18

Active listening

Answer 18

Responsive to the interviewee