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Bachelor of Mass Media in Journalism (BMM Journalism) Practice Test: Editing
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News editing is making a news copy good for the medium (online, mobile, print, etc) and readable, correcting factual and syntactical errors, giving the required shape and size by using the right kind of expressions and styles. A news copy is edited to highlight the “news sense” in a story, and to bring uniformity of language and style in an issue of a newspaper.
 

Bachelor of Mass Media in Journalism (BMM Journalism) Practice Test: Editing
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1. Designing a newspaper page is a __________
2. Page layout horizontal format is known as______________
3. Newspaper layout and page make up is called ___________
4. Deciding what will be published, making it readable in accordance with the philosophy of the publication house is called__________.
5. News worthiness that concentartes on the number of people affected by the story
6. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
7. Obituary' news relates to
8. A picture with a resolution of 72 dpi, is ideal for the __________.
9. A quote or a line or paragraph often given graphic treatment to highlight the article and is similar to refer
10. Inserting your own or someone else's opinion in an article is called_________
11. Television writing style is similar to________
12. What is hard news?
13. When writing a caption, what verb tense should be used to describe the action in the photo?
14. __________________ criteria are audience, timeliness, impact, prominence, conflict, proximity, uniqueness and science or progress.
15. How many columns in a tabloid
16. A standard print resolution is _____________ dots per inch.
17. Before satellite transmission, news services sent their stories by _____
18. The sub-editor who oversees copy from the news services or news agencies is commonly known as the ____
19. The one who writes columns on ideas page is called?
20. Celebrities make the news over small things because of the ______ news value
21. What does a gutter mean?
22. The line usually in a smaller font above the main headline is called___________
23. A newspaper looks different from a book. Each article is arranged in _____________.
24. Umbrella is opposite to __________
25. The first public transmission system in the world was