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Reporting and Interviewing MCQ

Court case records such as court dockets are public records.

True.

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True.

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Dot coms are more credible web sources because their business is making money.

True.

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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When trying to interview sources for a story, secretaries and other assistants

Are a waste of your time.

Can be helpful with background and other information.

Don’t generally know much to help you.

Will never talk to you.

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Correct Answer: Can be helpful with background and other information.

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A certain amount of skepticism in journalists

Prevents them from doing their jo

Is necessary to get truthful and accurate information.

Will cause them to inject bias in the story.

Is an indication they haven’t been trained properly.

Answer

Correct Answer: Is necessary to get truthful and accurate information.

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In most news stories, which is the best way to observe events?

First-han

Through reports from credible sources.

Through interviews with experts.

Through reactions of participants.

Answer

Correct Answer: First-han

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A man running through Central Park naked would most likely make news because of its

Impact.

Conflict.

Prominence.

Novelty.

Answer

Correct Answer: Novelty.

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Because of the converged media environment, television reporters

Must learn to write for web and social media as well.

Are not as important as those hired to write for the we

Do not share their stories with web producers.

Are out of a jo

Answer

Correct Answer: Must learn to write for web and social media as well.

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As a rule, reporters should interview at least ___ sources for a story.

Answer

Correct Answer: 3

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Ethical standards tell us

What we are required to do by law.

What stories we should do rather than what we must do.

How to get away with certain reporting practices.

How our opinions differ from our editor’s.

Answer

Correct Answer: What stories we should do rather than what we must do.

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Objectivity means

Only reporting on stories about which you have no opinion.

Not reporting on issues that may harm the community in which you work.

Not reporting on any politically charged issues.

Basing your reporting on facts and evidence rather than your opinion.

Answer

Correct Answer: Basing your reporting on facts and evidence rather than your opinion.

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed

By the First Amendment.

By the Society of Professional Journalists.

On a state-by-state basis.

Freedom of the press is not spelled out in law.

Answer

Correct Answer: By the First Amendment.

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Because of today’s converged media environment

Sensationalism doesn’t exist anymore.

Sensationalism is epidemi

It is easier to separate fact from fiction.

People can rely more on nonprofessionals for their news.

Answer

Correct Answer: Sensationalism is epidemi

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