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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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When should a reporter conduct an interview? _____
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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 ___
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When journalists argue for legislation to assist them to source information, they are actually asking for
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Which of these should a reporter do if he must manage his source to succeed in his reportorial assignment _____
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is regarded as newspaper without borders?
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A good reporter must abide by these rules except ____
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---------- is what typically differentiates a broadcast copy from advertising copy and from a public relations copy
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The word “sacred cow” when used in the news room means, which of these ___
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A reporter that is motivated by getting on the front page means _____
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A benefit or immunity enjoyed by someone or a class of people which does not apply to the general public is called
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A media house can be compelled to publish as well as payment of damages as forms of remedies for defamation
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The reporter must not editorialize. This means ____
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When many reporters from different media organizations participate in an interview, they are in involved in ____
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The writing rule ‘use the inverted pyramid forms when writing news’ means ____
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When a man/woman suffers defamation through the spoken word or gesture, that is called
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A reporter should always know that an accused is entitled to hearing
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To become a specialist reporter, one needs a Ph.D degree in the area of coverage. YES/NO
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The major challenge of online reporting is
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An in-depth, thorough, elaborate, comprehensive and lucid report of a specific field of journalistic coverage is known as _report
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Education, Politics, Business, Economy Science and Technology are examples of Beat?
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Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, are countries from part of the world?
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Broadcast news stories are written in _voice;
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Some political reporters cannot remain neutral in political issues; they are often
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One of these is not a general rule for news writing and reporting ___
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In Nigeria, Proscriptions/Closure of media houses ended with regime?
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A reporter must not pass judgment means that he should ____
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In Nigerian law, the is presumed innocent until proved guilty
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A story written in an inverted pyramid format simply means which of these? ____
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The reason Inverted Pyramid format is used in news writing include which of these? ____
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A reporter covering the court if not careful is almost likely to commit of the courts.
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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_____
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The obnoxious _of 1984 was enacted by General Buhari to curtail press freedom
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Which news element is projected in the following sentence, ‘A total sum of N28billion was pumped into the foreign exchange market in March this year alone by the Central Bank of Nigeria?’ _____
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The technical language used in the media industry is called _____
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There are no easy classifications of news; however in broad term, the following except one are the major types _____
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It is the duty of the reporter to interpret the electoral process to the electorate?
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How does the idiom, ‘dress how you want to be addressed’ relate to the reporter?
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To connect the reader back to the original story, the reporter uses
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Advocates for collective ownership of resources as a cardinal principle in the eastern world
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In international communication parlance the third world is also referred to as the
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You can identify a poor writing by which of the following? ____
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In a typical news room, you are likely to hear which of these terminologies? ____
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Use of words such as ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘however’ as a bridge in writing is called ____
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Broadcasters should avoid complex sentence; instead they should chhose
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The lead performs several functions excluding the following _____
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The following, according to Sonaike (1987) is not a type of lead ____
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The factors that determine news values include some of these…
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The second_cycle story, the developing story and the update are the variants of
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Update is a type of story
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reigns in a state where there is no law?
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