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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.
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MAC225
1 / 50
Crime reporters are encouraged to work closely with which agency of Government?
2 / 50
In Nigeria, Proscriptions/Closure of media houses ended with regime?
3 / 50
A story written in an inverted pyramid format simply means which of these? ____
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One of these is not a general rule for news writing and reporting ___
5 / 50
A geographical area such as town, or a subject area such as science and technology are examples of a reporter’s
6 / 50
_____ is not when to use direct quote to add colour and credibility?
7 / 50
The giving and receiving of transport fares to journalists in Nigeria is not an ethical issue. YES/NO.
8 / 50
In criminal law, the is the accuser?
9 / 50
Which of these is an accurate definition of news? ____ It must
10 / 50
The obnoxious _of 1984 was enacted by General Buhari to curtail press freedom
11 / 50
In addition to his personal style and the prevailing style of the particular period he is operating in, another style the journalist must contend with is _______
12 / 50
A reporter that is motivated by getting on the front page means _____
13 / 50
Any act of disrespect against the court by the reporter is called of the court
14 / 50
A bad writing will end up where? ____
15 / 50
The practice whereby journalists eagerly condemn an issue in a foreign country but would not comment on same in his is called
16 / 50
---------- is what typically differentiates a broadcast copy from advertising copy and from a public relations copy
17 / 50
The sports council is a good information source for the reporter
18 / 50
When many reporters from different media organizations participate in an interview, they are in involved in ____
19 / 50
How does the idiom, ‘dress how you want to be addressed’ relate to the reporter?
20 / 50
If a competent court of law orders a retraction but a news publication still refuses to do so, the publication is guilty of
21 / 50
When a reporter writes a story that is considered to be a breaking news his source is categorized as____
22 / 50
There are two types of Beats: Topical Beat and beat
23 / 50
An area assigned to a reporter as his responsibility is known as
24 / 50
The vice-chancellor said the time has come “to turn off some lights We all must do something to conserve electricity ” This is an example of ___
25 / 50
Some interviewees may want to know why you want to interview them, in such a case you can do one of the following _____
26 / 50
A skilled interviewer should watch out for the interviewers emotional tone level (ETL) by doing which of the following in the cause of the interview_____
27 / 50
If you were a broadcast editor which of these would you consider when selecting your news stories ____
28 / 50
The courts fall under superior courts while the magistrate courts fall under inferior courts.
29 / 50
Prize was instituted to reward journalists who excel in investigative journalism, etc
30 / 50
There is no excuse for a journalist to do a sloppy job because he can verify every fact by reference to these except ___
31 / 50
You can identify a poor writing by which of the following? ____
32 / 50
Some political reporters cannot remain neutral in political issues; they are often
33 / 50
To ensure accuracy in interviews, the reporter should do all of these except ____
34 / 50
The press theory that guides the Western world is
35 / 50
There are no easy classifications of news; however in broad term, the following except one are the major types _____
36 / 50
A good reporter must have nose for news This means that
37 / 50
When journalists argue for legislation to assist them to source information, they are actually asking for
38 / 50
The second_cycle story, the developing story and the update are the variants of
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If an accused agrees to plead for guilty in return for a lesser sentence this is called
40 / 50
In the Nigerian judicial system, there are superior and courts
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The lead performs several functions excluding the following _____
42 / 50
The following, according to Sonaike (1987) is not a type of lead ____
43 / 50
To connect the reader back to the original story, the reporter uses
44 / 50
An in-depth, thorough, elaborate, comprehensive and lucid report of a specific field of journalistic coverage is known as _report
45 / 50
The media in the eastern world are free to express dissenting views. YES/NO?
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The first step in a typical court trial process in America is called _statement
47 / 50
Update is a type of story
48 / 50
The writing rule ‘use the inverted pyramid forms when writing news’ means ____
49 / 50
News stories that emanate from events such as national celebration, budget speech, special anniversary, is known as ____
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According to Melvin Mencher (2010), a story must satisfy which of these to be accepted? _____
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