Exam 13: News Gathering and Reporting

The trend toward ordinary people becoming amateur reporters is called:

General assignment reporters at newspapers become specialists in a given type of news,such as City Hall news.

Broadcast and print journalism are similar in that:

AP (Associated Press)is best described as:

Types of news sources available online include general news sites (such as CNN.com)and:

A story that tends to provide the same amount of information throughout is written in the ______ form.

Soft news,or features,tend to rely on the __________ news value.

The news value known as proximity is based on the fact that we value events that happen to important people.

At a TV station,the ________ decides which stories to cover,the length of each story and the order in which the stories will appear.

Concentrating on stories of interest to a single zip code is an example of:

Investigative news reports are typically shorter than the typical print or broadcast news item.

There is a standard writing style for online news.

AP competes with

Print and TV journalism are similar in that they both should strive to uphold basic values and journalistic principles.

Hyperlocal news represents a significant new revenue stream for local media.

A backpack journalist is a reporter who covers stories far away from civilization.

A survey done by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press revealed that credibility ratings for _________ declined from 2000 to 2008.

Surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press reveal that the audience is becoming less likely to trust the news media.What do you think accounts for this decline in trust?

Do you agree that while citizen journalists are a valuable source of news,they should be treated with caution? Why?

Though they can be interesting,blogs are not an influential force in online news reporting.