Journalism Test - 1

The correct answer is Public Journalism.

Key Points

• Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism, is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.
• Citizens participate in certain events or happenings giving their comments and opinions.
• Even some citizens give information and happenings to media about the things in their area.

The correct answer is Spot news.

Key Points

• Hard news is the kind of most important news that usually appears on the front page of newspapers.
• It is called spot news because it is reported immediately as it occirs and is always the latest one.

The correct answer is Readability.

Key Points

• The cloze procedure is a reading comprehension activity in which words are omitted from a passage and students are required to fill in the blanks.
• This procedure is incredibly useful in reading instruction because it can be easily done by any teacher and provides valuable reading comprehension information.
• A Cloze is an exercise test that consists of a portion of text where certain words are removed and such text are called cloze text.
• This method is used for restoring the missing words.
• This method requires the readers to understand context and vocabulary to identify the correct words that belong in the deleted passages of a text.

The correct answer is Cherry picking.

Key Points

• Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position while ignoring a significant portion of related and similar cases or data that may contradict that position.
• To illustrate cherry picking- If you are able to select the methods of trials that gives you a positive effects, ignoring the negative effects, it means you are able to cherry pick the facts and quotes in support of your opinion.

The correct answer is Fluff.

Key Points

• A type of news typically seen on low quality publications looking to get some cheap content, or to "fluff" their way through another article. 
• Fluff in simple terms means “to make a mistake, especially in the delivery of lines by a performer”.
• So when a reader makes mistake while reading news, they call it as fluff.

The correct answer is Timothy Crouse.

Key Points

• Pack journalism is the characterization of news reporting in which reporters from different news outlets collaborate to cover the same story, leaving news reporting homogeneous. This is the practice whereby reporters use the same sources of information for their stories.
• 'Pack Journalism' was coined by Timothy Crouse in his 1973 book “The Boys on the Bus,” at the time of media coverage of the elections of US presidential.

The correct answer is Joseph Pulitzer.

Key Points

• Joseph Pulitzer said that A newspaper should be both a daily teacher and daily tribune. 
• Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York.

The correct answer is Alan Chalkley.

Key Points

• The term development journalism, was coined by Alan Chalkley in 1970.
• He believes that the development journalist's job is three-fold: mainly, to inform; secondarily, to interpret and thirdly; to promote.
• Development journalism was conceived in the 1960s at the Press Foundation of Asia (PFA), where Filipino journalists Alan Chalkley and Juan Mercado were concerned that news organizations were inadequately covering socio-economic development.
• Journalists were reporting government press releases and quotes but giving little attention to detailed analysis, interpretation, or evaluation of development projects, policies, or problems. 

The correct answer is Digdarshan - Samachar Darpan - Samvad Kaumudi - Bangadoota.

Key Points

• Digdarshan - Samachar Darpan - Samvad Kaumudi - Bangadoota. 
• Digdarshan was the first periodical of Bengal in Bangla language.
  • It was a monthly, published by the Srirampur Baptist Mission and edited by John Clark marshman, son of the renowned missionary joshua marshman.
  • The first issue of Digdarshan came out in April 1818.
• Samachar Darpan was a weekly Bengali newspaper published by the Baptist Missionary Society and distributed in the first half of the 19th century, on 23 May 1818, by the Baptist Mission Press at Serampore.
• Sambad Kaumudi was a Bengali weekly newspaper published from Kolkata in the first half of the 19th century by Ram Mohan Roy. It was a noted pro-Reformist publication that actively campaigned for the abolition of the Sati Pratha. First issue date: 1821.
• Bangadoot was published during the period of Ram Mohan Roy after the Sambad Kaumudi. 

The correct answer is Robert Knight.

Key Points

• The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar.
• Indian Statesman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India.
• It incorporates and is directly descended from The Friend of India, founded in 1818.
• It is owned by The Statesman Ltd and headquartered at Statesman House, Chowringhee Square, Kolkata, with its national editorial office at Statesman House, Connaught Place, New Delhi. It is a member of the Asia News Network.