Here we are with twenty general knowledge questions on journalism to enhance your learning skills. Read on!
1. What is journalism?
Answer: An activity or profession of writing for magazines or newspapers or broadcasting news on television or radio
2. What is photojournalism?
Answer: The art or practice of communicating news through photographs
3. If a sentence is written in SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT style, what should it be called?
Answer: Active
4. The style of journalistic writing allows you to include the least important details at the bottom of the article. What is it?
Answer: Inverted Pyramid
5. In journalism, what is that one thing the writer needs to avoid?
Answer: Long, complicated sentences and paragraphs
6. What does proximity refer to?
Answer: Something close by or near
7. What is a by-line?
Answer: Name of a person who wrote the article
8. A reporter who follows one particular genre would be covering?
Answer: Beat
9. What is another word for a photo caption that journalists use?
Answer: Cutline
10. Which is the most important aspect of being a good reporter?
Answer: Making accuracy your goal
11. What type of opinion article is written as a newspaper staff?
Answer: Editorial
12. What describes a reporter injecting his or her opinion into an article?
Answer: Editorialize
13. The inverted pyramid works best for what stories?
Answer: News stories
14. What is a construct?
Answer: It is an abstract statement
15. What is broadcast journalism?
Answer: A television or radio program or a transmission
16. What is the definition of censorship?
Answer: Restrictions imposed from outside the newsroom
17. What doesn’t characterize Yellow Journalism?
Answer: Fair and balanced reporting
18. An article about record breaking heat is considered with what?
Answer: Timeliness
19. What are the characteristics of journalistic writing?
Answer: Shorter paragraphs, short concise paragraphs and sentences, and effective, important quotes
20. Is it True or False that If a writer is writing a review, they don’t need to interview anyone else?
Answer: False
