Republic of the Philippines

Stratford International School

J. Catolico Avenue, Lagao General Santos City
Campus Journalism Preliminary Exam

Name __________________________ Date ________________

Course/Year ____________________ Score _______________

I. Identify what is being asked in the following items and write your answer in the blank.
____________________ 1. Simply sensationalizing a story or an issue, a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched
news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
____________________ 2. The version of the national newspaper within an academic institution.
____________________ 3. Usually he/she writes the editorials of the organ after consultation with the members of the editorial staff.
____________________ 4. He defined news as news is information that has a meaning for a set of readers.
____________________ 5. They represent source news, free from traditional economic, corporate, political, or advertising considerations.
____________________ 6. It is a news item or a feature placed side by side its mother story to which it is related but under a headline of its own.
____________________ 7.A narrative involving not mere simple facts but dramatic actions – incidents, description of persons, perhaps
testimonies of witness, as well as explanatory data.
____________________ 8. This special type of news should not be confused with the feature articles.
____________________ 9. They take charge of designing and formatting of all pages in the paper.
____________________ 10. Usually written on top of the page, this is composed of the page number, date of publication and name of the
newspaper.
____________________ 11. The engraved or printed name, logo or symbol of the newspaper.
____________________ 12.They are horizontal divisions of the parts or text of a newspaper.
____________________ 13.A daily register of one’s activities, a communication of day-to-day information and a collection of news through
printed media as well as the electronic media.
____________________ 14. A type of kicker that is bigger than the headline.
____________________ 15.The official student publication of Manila High School, now Araullo High School.
____________________ 16. Assigned as the reporter to cover events relevant to the school activities, he/she writes news articles on assignment
for the chief editor.
____________________ 17. This is plain exposition of a simple situation of a series of closely related events which conform to the inverted
triangle design more closely than any other kinds of news.
____________________ 18. It is defined as the process of “dyadic”, relational communication with a predetermined and serious purpose
designed to interchange behavior involving the asking and answering of questions.
____________________ 19. A format that is three dimensional referring to special cases of developmental communication and interpretive
journalism or investigative reportage.
____________________ 20. The signature, name or pseudonym of the reporter who prepared the news.
II. True or False. On the space provided before each item, write True when the concept is factual and False when it is erroneous.
_________ 1. Citizen journalism is also a reliable news source.
_________ 2. Written and electronic documents are good sources of primary data.
_________ 3. Foreign news is a type of news item. It is about a happening outside one’s country, thus unimportant to read.
_________ 4. News briefs, action stories and news flashes are samples of short and special types of news.
_________ 5. A deck is a subordinate headline which is placed below the mother head.
_________ 6. The chief editor bears the sole authority in writing editorials.
_________ 7. The most traditional format of newspaper is magazine, while the latest is the internet including social media.
_________ 8. A hammer is a type of kicker that is bigger than the headline.
_________ 9. A coverage news and spot news are similar news stories that are good avenues for secondhand information.
_________ 10. Nose for news means that a writer must have a high sense to newsworthy events; hence, stalking persons is permitted.
III. Enumeration.
1-11 Give the eleven characteristics of a good news.

12-15 Give the four types of news stories.

16-20 Give the five tenets of journalism.