Introduction to Journalism Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Introduction to Journalism offers students an overview of the foundational principles, practices, and ethical considerations of news reporting in contemporary society. The course introduces methods of gathering, verifying, and presenting information across various media platforms, including print, broadcast, and digital journalism. Students will learn about the role of journalists in a democratic society, explore types of news writing such as feature stories, interviews, and investigative reports, and examine the challenges posed by emerging technologies and misinformation. Practical assignments enable learners to develop core reporting, writing, and editing skills while fostering critical thinking about current issues in journalism.
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Dynamics of Mass Communication Media in Transition 12th Edition by Joseph R Dominick
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Chapter 1: Communication: Mass and Other Forms
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Q1) Online communications that use special techniques involving participation,conversation and sharing are called social media.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The word "media" is the plural form of the singular word "medium."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A cell phone with an integrated navigation system is an example of:
A)operational convergence
B)device convergence
C)symbiotic convergence
D)consolidation convergence
E)corporate convergence
Answer: B
Q4) The job of the gatekeeper is to help eliminate mechanical noise.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Perspectives on Mass Communication
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Q1) The creation of social groups comprised of people who are not directly connected reflects which media function?
A)surveillance
B)interpretation
C)linkage
D)transmission of values
E)entertainment
Answer: C
Q2) The interpretation function appears in news content,but not in entertainment content.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is an example of the diversion function of the media?
A)listening to radio to pass the time
B)reading an in-flight magazine to keep from being bored
C)listening to New Age music to relax
D)watching a horror movie to become frightened
E)all of the these
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Historical and Cultural Context
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Q1) China was responsible for the development of paper and block printing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Digital technology is best described as:
A)a means of duplicating information at low cost
B)a system that encodes information into a series of on-and-off pulses usually denoted as zeros and ones
C)an international protocol for decoding bits
D)a system for distributing material over long distances
E)all of these
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following is probably NOT a social impact of the development of writing?
A)increased societal division
B)greater equality across the society as a whole
C)vast empires were created
D)enduring codes of law were developed
E)all of these ARE social impacts of writing
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Internet and Social Media
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Q1) E-mail is the most widely used Internet resource because it is fast and extremely private.
A)True
B)False
Q2) States posting the names and addresses of sex offenders on the Web:
A)are attempting to function as censors
B)have raised serious concerns about privacy issues
C)have provoked discussions about Web 2.0
D)all of these
E)none of these
Q3) Spam is:
A)online aggression
B)the attempt to indicate emotion via key strokes,such as:-)
C)the cyber equivalent of junk mail
D)e-mail that has collected while the receiver is on vacation
E)using e-mail for sensitive issues when interpersonal communication would be best
Q4) The use of Facebook has resulted in several negative consequences including a contributing cause of increased divorces and cyber bullying.Discuss other negative consequences that you have personally observed.
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Chapter 5: Newspapers
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Q1) ___________ appeared during the Roaring Twenties and was epitomized by New York papers using a tabloid format with numerous photographs.
A)the penny press
B)yellow journalism
C)jazz journalism
D)literary journalism
E)checkbook journalism
Q2) Advantages of online newspapers include interactivity and:
A)more features and content than the print versions
B)greater use of the traditional one-way flow of information
C)greater clarity of mission
D)smaller news holes
E)all of these
Q3) Readership of the Penny Press was high because it allowed people access to the same content as was in the traditional local dailies,but at a significantly lower price.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Will user-generated content play a more significant role in online newspapers? If so,in what way?
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Chapter 6: Magazines
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Q1) The print version of magazines continues to bring in the bulk of money.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a specialized magazine that is not on the market do you think would have a readership? Who would be the intended audience and advertisers and what would be the feature story scope?
Q3) Replica editions of magazines try to duplicate the reading experience of the paper version of the magazine.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The movement to uncover wrongdoing and advocate reform of corrupt or harmful practices was called:
A)advocacy journalism
B)the Reform movement
C)crusading
D)muckraking
E)the expository press
Q5) Creating an online magazine as opposed to a print version requires additional skills and poses different challenges.Discuss some of these challenges.
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Chapter 7: Books
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Q1) Although book publishers receive income from subsidiary rights,income from book sales is more important.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these is an example of user-generated content?
A)crossword puzzles
B)wiki novel
C)serialized drama
D)none of these
E)all of these
Q3) Amazon.com is the biggest bookseller in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The book industry's most important form of audience feedback is the various best-seller lists compiled by newspapers and trade publications.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What changes and improvement to e-readers would best convince the college students who prefer a traditional text to switch to the reader?
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Chapter 8: Radio
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Q1) HD radio is
A)doing well in the marketplace
B)a digital service formed by the merger of Sirius and XM
C)a digital service that improves the signal qualities of terrestrial radio
D)the same as satellite radio
E)all of these
Q2) The first network was
A)ABC (American Broadcasting Company)
B)CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)
C)RCA (Radio Corporation of America)
D)NPR (National Public Radio)
E)NBC (National Broadcasting Company)
Q3) In the early 2000s,three satellite radio companies began operation,transmitting digital signals to subscribers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Advertising on radio began when WEAF in New York began selling time to anybody who wanted to broadcast a message.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sound Recording
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Q1) Increased revenue from digital sales of music offsets lost revenue from the decline of CD sales.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sales of CD albums have been slowly declining from 2007 to 2010.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true?
A)The percent of the money spent on prerecorded music is evenly divided between males and females
B)Spending by teens 19 and under on prerecording music declined
C)People over 30 account for the majority of money spent on prerecorded music
D)All of these
E)None of these
Q4) The dawn of the 60s brought a new clean-cut breed of rock star,thanks to American record companies' desires to increase profits.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Motion Pictures
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Q1) Limited partnerships mean that multiple films are released because various companies work on projects together.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these is a step in market research?
A)concept testing
B)script analysis
C)making a rough cut
D)focus group session
E)all of these
Q3) A _____ means that several companies involved in film production and distribution will pool their resources and finance a film.
A)joint venture
B)limited partnership
C)pickup
D)sliding scale
E)concession
Q4) Digital projectors are expensive,so most movie theaters have not installed them.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Broadcast Television
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Q1) Which of the following is an advantage of digital television?
A)the ability for broadcasters to send several different programs over a single digital channel
B)High Definition images and sound are possible
C)makes a more rectangular format possible
D)all of these
E)none of these
Q2) Social media can cause problems for broadcasters as with the Connecticut TV station whose fans created a Facebook page to encourage the station to reverse the decision not to renew the contract of its long-time meteorologist.Have you personally been involved or watch as a third party as social media was used to force a broadcaster to change a policy or program decision?
Q3) Though it is popular,Cable TV doesn't really represent competition to traditional broadcasting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The DVR allows viewers to record TV programs to a hard drive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Cable, Satellite and Internet Television
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Q1) Women are more likely to watch online video than men.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Video-on-demand was slow to catch on because:
A)of competition from broadcasters
B)of too much content
C)of a complicated user interface
D)all of these
E)none of these
Q3) Which of the following is closely related to buffering?
A)Web casting
B)streaming
C)data transferring
D)all of these
E)none of these
Q4) Satellite networks and cable networks are both national in focus,with no local origination of programs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: News Gathering and Reporting
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Q1) The trend toward ordinary people becoming amateur reporters is called:
A)online democracy
B)hyperlocal news
C)citizen journalism
D)expanded reportage
E)none of these
Q2) How have blogs affected journalism?
A)they represent an alternative source of news
B)they have an agenda-setting effect
C)they provide a check on the traditional media
D)they allow reporters to explain why they covered a story as they did
E)all of these
Q3) The news value known as proximity is based on the fact that we value events that happen to important people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In journalism,a news organization's credibility is paramount to its viability.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Public Relations
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Q1) The word "public" in public relations really should be taken to imply:
A)publicity
B)consumer
C)public and advertising
D)publics (plural)
E)media
Q2) Public relations is similar to advertising,but advertising uses interpersonal communication much more.
A)True
B)False
Q3) PR can be considered "doing good and getting credit for it."
A)True
B)False
Q4) The audience/public probably becomes aware of a PR program during its __________ phase.
A)organization
B)evaluation
C)planning
D)information-gathering
E)communication
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Chapter 15: Advertising
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Q1) According to Barbara Phillips,trade characters like the Jolly Green Giant give meaning and significance to otherwise indistinguishable products.What trade characters have you observed in a recent commercials accomplish this goal? Explain your response.
Q2) An organization which specializes in the creation of ads is a:
A)creative boutique
B)media buying service
C)full service agency
D)cyber agency
E)strategic agency
Q3) Advertising is nonpersonal promotion of items,and is paid for by an identified sponsor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Online banner ads don't generate a lot of traffic for sponsors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Advertising is a relatively new phenomenon,dating back only about 100 years. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Formal Controls: Laws, Rules, Regulations
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Q1) In 1996,the EFOIA was passed to:
A)make more information available on the Internet
B)simplify making a FOIA request
C)replace FOIA
D)apply FOIA to city government
E)reduce the range of agencies covered by FOIA
Q2) In prior restraint cases,the courts tend to support the rights of:
A)the federal government
B)state governments
C)the press
D)consumers
E)no clear pattern of court support can be detected
Q3) To win a libel suit against the media,any person must prove (among other things):
A)unfair comment
B)the occurrence of defamation and harm
C)libel per quod
D)actual malice
E)truth
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Chapter 17: Ethics and Other Informal Controls
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a main principle of the Society of Professional Journalists' code?
A)become acculturated
B)be accountable
C)act independently
D)minimize harm
E)seek and report the truth
Q2) The MPAA rating system (G,PG,etc.)is a successor to the highly specific Motion Picture Production Code.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although pressure groups have had some positive results,certain groups have probably had too much power and done more harm than good.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The advertising industry rarely faces ethical issues and as such has not developed a code for performance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Social Effects of Mass Communicationglossary
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Q1) People have been concerned about media effects on behavior since the:
A)1940s,when people feared the influence of radio on politics
B)1950s & 1960s,with the explosive growth of TV
C)1970s & 1980s,with the Surgeon General's report linking exposure to TV violence with antisocial behavior
D)the mid-1990s,with the introduction of the V-chip
E)the late 1990s,in the wake of the Columbine High School shootings
Q2) In a 2009 study that examined viewers of Grey's Anatomy
A)light viewers thought the program presented a credible portrayal of doctors
B)light viewers were more likely to believe that real-world doctors were courageous
C)both of these
D)neither of these
Q3) The results of lab experiments are less likely to be contaminated by external factors than are the results of field experiments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The mass media industry as a whole is one of many agents of socialization.
A)True
B)False
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