1. What does beat reporting refer to?

2. Beat reporting is the _______ of any newspaper's coverage of its community.

3.What is the main task of the beat reporters?
4. What does the principle Be prepared of the beat covering mean?
5. Journalist's persistence means two things to a reporter on a beat. Which are
they?
6. Which is not a crucial factor to watch in the beat reporting?
7. If reporting on crimes took place the previous night, which source would
represent the starting point?
8.Which details are not needed to complete the official police report from the
scene of the crime?
9. What must court reporters know?
10. In case the reporter reports from the crime scene, what is the first thing he/she
should do?
11. Revise reported speech!
12. What kind of difficulty is present when obtaining information from the victim of
a crime?
13. Who contributes the facts of the crime to become more readable and vivid?
14. Which of the following styles of writing a story is not usual for orginizing a
police story?
15. What is the police reporter mainly concerned with ?
16. The term "agribusiness" has been coined from:
17. What is the environment beat? What does it include?
18. What must the good environment reporter do?
19. What does covering religion involve?
20. Ethnic tensions, obscenity versus free speech, crime, drug abuse, politics and
sex, can be added to the list for many reporters who cover ___________ beat.
21. Most reporters who cover the ______________ beat, function as critics. They
render judgments and express evaluations.
22. Which beat is considered very interesting because of its diversity of approach?
23. The most important part of the school beat is:
24. Reporters covering_________________ are often expected to be superior
writers.

25._______________________________ is mandatory for the sports reporter.

26._________________________ must know and use the language of the players
and the fans.
27.The following statements : Information is power; The budget is the blueprint;
Distributing power and money is politics, are general principles that every
journalist should have in mind when covering one of the following beats:
28._____________________ beat always attracts the reader's attention.
29.__________________ should avoid cliches.
30. Todays news is __________ tomorrow
31. If a story is worth writing, it is worth_________________ - a day, a week, a year,
or years later.
32. Newspapers should see that the public isnt _________
33.Voters in a democracy must be permitted to cast their ballots in______________
34. What is a follow up?
35. Which of the types of follows provides a fresh slant?
36._____________________ provides the latest developments to the reader.
37._____________________ gives more background information on the original
story.
38. What separates the court reporters from all the other beat reporters?
39.Revise reported speech in questions and commands (available on the Internet).
40. Revise tenses!
41. When journalists cover the government beat, they deal with......what?
42. What does the statement "The budget is the blueprint" mean when covering
beat story?

43. What does the term "legalese" mean?

44. Which source is the most important for the court reporters?

45. What do the human resources in court reporting include?

46. What is the increasing public interest for business and economics based on?
__________

47. Where does the greatest danger arise from for the police beat reporters?

48. What does to lend a sympathetic ear mean?

49. What does the term labor refer to?
50. Who deals with these questions: "Why are prices rising? Are the products
safe?"
51. Who puts their material in perspective, with clear indication of influences of
mankind?
52. Who puts a technical, specialized language in their stories, which is usually
unintelligible to ordinary folk?
53. Which is the plural form of DEMOCRACY ?
54. How has the term "agribusiness" been coined?
55. What kind of beat is the environment beat?
56. Plural of MEDIUM is:
57. What must the good environment do?
58. In feature writing a __________________ through the story connects the lead to
the body and to the conclusion

59. What does covering religion involve?

60. Ethnic tensions, obscenity versus free speech, crime, drug abuse, politics and
sex, can be added to the list for many reporters who cover ___________ beat.
61. Most reporters who cover the ______________ beat, function as critics. They
render judgments and express evaluations.
62. Which beat is considered very interesting because of its diversity of approach?
63. The goal of a _______________________ is not achieved by falling into the
jargonistic trap.

64. Which is the most important part of the school beat?

65. Feature writers write ________________ that builds to the climax at the end
66. Reporters covering_________________ are often expected to be superior
writers.
67. _______________________________ is mandatory for the sports reporter.
68. _________________________ must know and use the language of the players
and the fans.
69. Writers of a feature story usually avoid ________________ leads
70. _____________________ beat always attracts the reader's attention
71.________________________ is written to show a subject's ability or emotional
or entertainment value

72.__________________ should avoid cliches

73. A feature is often concluded with a/an ______________ and lets the source talk
directly to the reader
74. If a story is worth writing, it is worth_________________ - a day, a week, a year,
or years later
75. _______________________ is written to bring the audience close to a person in
or out of the news: interviews, observations, creative writing.
76. Types of _________________ include: personality profile, a human interest
story, a trend story, an in-depth story, a backgrounder
77. __________________tell the readers what happened next.

81. ____________________ examines people, things or organizations that are

having an impact on society
82. _____________________ provides the latest developments to the reader
83. A feature generally runs ____________________ than a news story
84. _____________________ gives more background information on the original
story.
85. What kind of stories are those that are about full spectrum of human activity?
86. _________________________ through extensive research and interviews,
provides a detailed account well beyond a basic news or feature story
87._______________________ invites the readers inside
88._________________________ entertains and educates
89.Feature writers seldom use_______________________
90. Plural of AGENDA is:
91. Plural of CRISIS is:
92. Plural of MEMORANDUM is: