Top 250+ Solved Reporting MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which news value is considered as positive one?
a. Proximity
b. Consequances
c. Progress
d. Timeliness
Q. The place or person where you get inspiration and information is your _____
a. citation
b. source
c. headline
d. article
Q. What is bias in journalism?
a. Only writing bad things about a person, event or issue
b. Only writing good things about a person, event or issue
c. An unbalanced and unfair way of looking at a situation and reporting it
d. Making up your mind about a person before getting to know him/her
Q. If you reuse a photo from your source, you should make a _____ to protect you from plagiarism.
a. citation
b. source
c. article
d. headline
Q. A journalist took pictures for his article and cited his source at the end. Is he being ethical?
a. No because writing citations is not ethical to do
b. No because it\s not needed
c. Yes because writing a citation is the right and respectful thing to do in this situation
d. Yes because you can take anything that you want as a journalist
Q. A journalist who gathers information - including researching and interviewing people - and writes news stories is a __________
a. anchoring
b. Editor
c. Reporter
d. Editor
Q. The first foreign news agency to start its operations in India was
a. Associated Press
b. Reuters
c. DPA
d. TASS
Q. ANI stands for
a. Asian News International
b. Asiatic News International
c. African News Impact
d. Algerian News Intercept
Q. Fabrication is
a. to make a top notch writing effort
b. to protect someone\s image
c. to make up the details in your writing
d. to reveal your source
Q. Citizen journalism is the practice of
a. preparing stories that will help citizens vote in elections.
b. publishing only those stories that are of interest to politically active citizens.
c. collaborating with nonprofit organizations to prepare news stories.
d. inviting readers and viewers to participate in the creation of news content.
Q. In terms of public awareness, news has the status of
a. dominant discourse
b. conflict value
c. unintended exchange
d. limited judgement
Q. The term 'spin doctors' is used in a negative sense to refer to
a. news reporters
b. legal counsels
c. advertisers
d. PR professionals
Q. Journalism that depends upon computer-assisted analysis of existing information is known as
a. Offline journalism
b. Technical journalism
c. CAA journalism
d. Database journalism
Q. Deep throat' was the source of information for the reporters investigating the
a. Watergate scandal
b. Irangate scandal
c. Profumo-Christine Keeler scandal
d. Mundhra scandal