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1

The first newspaper probably appeared in
A)Germany
B)China
C)Italy
D)America
2

In colonial America, sedition libel laws made it illegal to print
A)true information about citizens
B)comments that made Americans look bad in other countries
C)derogatory remarks about the government or its members
D)information about the private lives of the community
3

In colonial America, the partisan press
A)provided news of business and shipping
B)chose sides about issues related to the Revolution
C)aimed its news at particular cultural groups
D)divided the public among workers and employers
4

Which type of news is made up of stories about current events that have an impact on peoples' lives?
A)feature news
B)soft news
C)hard news
D)local news
5

A newshole refers to the size of
A)the space that must be filled with fluff pieces on a slow news day
B)an area in the community that is not interested in purchasing newspapers
C)the total number of copies delivered to potential customers
D)the space in a paper that could be devoted to editorial content
6

Nelly Bly was a famous practitioner of stunt journalism, in which a reporter would
A)seek out exciting stunts being performed to write about
B)pay stuntmen to do incredible feats to create a news story
C)perform a spectacular stunt, to create publicity for a story
D)treat a variety of incidents as stunts to make them sound more exciting
7

Which of the following newspapers innovated the abundant use of photographs, and a smaller, single fold format?
A)the New York Times
B)the New York Daily News
C)the Christian Science Monitor
D)The Wall Street Journal
8

The man considered to be the founder of the first modern newspaper chain was
A)Benjamin Franklin
B)William Randolph Hearst
C)Joseph Pulitzer
D)Edward Wylis Scripps
9

The underground papers of the 1960's were part of the
A)ethnic press
B)alternative press
C)organizational press
D)mainstream press
10

The ________________ at a newspaper makes all the major decisions about the editorial direction that the paper will take.
A)publisher
B)editor-in-chief
C)managing editor
D)associate editor
11

A feature syndicate
A)collects news in many different countries
B)distributes local stories with national appeal
C)brokers items such as comic strips and crossword puzzles
D)provides specialized and supplemental news
12

The average age of today's newspaper reader is
A)25
B)18
C)65
D)53
13

An innovation of the 1990's public journalism calls for
A)newspapers to cover more community issues
B)politicians to make more of their activities known to the public
C)the paper to help citizens solve community problems
D)the public to become more involved with publishing the paper
14

Critics of newspaper chains say that in small communities, the chains often deprive people of a diversity of opinions about
A)national issues
B)local issues
C)international issues
D)journalistic performance
15

The Newspaper Preservation Act was created by Congress in order to
A)allow many small papers to form a chain
B)encourage people to get their news from newspapers, rather than from TV
C)allow two competing papers to share printing facilities and business staffs
D)preserve antique copies of newspapers for museums and educational use.





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