SAHIDAINI, HABIBA AYESHA A.

BA JOURNALISM 2A
JOURN 103 MIDTERM EXAM

1. Suppose that you are a TV assignment editor and you receive a call from an individual who
claims she saw the mayor meeting with a well known mobster. Describe how would you handle
the situation.

First I will listen to that person then I will ask for an evidence to prove that he or she is telling
the truth, because nowadays people can easily make a fake news especially that he or she is
referring to the mayor. And after that if he or she can provide an evidence that she is telling the
truth then I’ll ask help from someone that has the right to investigate about the said issue about
the mayor.

2. Suppose you are a news director for a radio station. You get a call from a student at the local
university who says he has been dealing in narcotics but wants to quit. He says he will tell you
the whole story about drugs on campus, but you have to keep his identity secret. Do you agree
and put a reporter on the story? Explain your decision.

Well, I will first make sure that he is telling the truth because people nowadays can scam you
easily, then after that I’ll interview him about his concern. And as per his identity, I’ll respect it
because it is for his privacy and to avoid humiliation to that person and it is not about his
identity we are focusing, because its about drugs and we all know that our country has a very
bad background about this crime and also this can be an awareness to all people and most
especially to the teenagers who think that drugs can help them.

3. An individual has been leaking information to you for several years and has always been reliable;
however, she now tells you a story about corruption that could bring down the city
administration if it is true. Do you tell anyone else at the station what you have been told? Do
you disclose your source? Explain in detail.

Yes I will disclose my source, because it is not just a small problem in our country, it can affect all
the people here in the Philippines and I will disclose my source and ask help from the station, I’ll
tell them what my source told me and knowing who my source is, can make it easy for us to do
what we should do, because we are not talking about two or three people here who needs help,
it is about the Filipino people.

4. Read through your local newspaper until you find three local stories to rewrite for broadcast.
Type the material so each is no longer than 30 seconds.
5. Rewrite a one-page story from a newspaper and, after you have corrected the copy, time it and
note the time in the page.
6. Watch two anchors on a local newscast and see how they manage to make pauses in their copy.
Do they change their voice inflection, make dramatic pauses, or hurry through stories so they
don’t run out of breath?

TV anchors ZEN HERNANDEZ AND ALVIN ELCHICO, maintain their voice even though they make
pauses and it is very nice to hear them talking nicely and calmly.

7. Using the following information, write both hard and soft leads:
A tanker registered to the Zabo Oil Company of Panama has run aground. This happened off the
coast of Charleston, South Carolina. One half million gallons of oil already have spilled into the
Atlantic. It is believed that another half million gallons are still on the ship.

SOFT LEAD: One half million gallons of oil already have spilled into the Atlantic
HARD LEAD: One half million gallons of oil already have spilled into the Atlantic when a tanker
registered to the Zabo Oil company of Panama has run aground happened off the coast of
Charleston South Carolina.

8. Write a qoute lead based on the following information:

A man on welfare, Bill Nelson, found a purse on the street. When he opened it, there was $5000
inside. Nelson counted it a dozen times. After two hours, he went to the police station and
turned over the money to the officer at the desk. When questioned about his honesty, Nelson
said, “ I may be poor but I am honest.”

“I may be poor but I am honest.”

9. Using the information from exercise 2, write a delayed lead.

A student from the local University that has been dealing in narcotics that wanted to quit using,
called a news director from a radio station to tell the story about drugs on their campus, but the
student begged to the news director to keep his identity.

10. Write a shotgun lead using the following information:

Forest fires in Oregon have burned more than 10,000 acres of timberland and the flames are
threatening thousands of additional acres. In California, firefighters are battling flames that
already have destroyed 15,000 acres of woodland.

Forest fires in Oregon have burned more than 10,000 acres while in California, firefighters are
battling flames that already have destroyed 15,000 acres of woodland and the flames are
threatening thousands of additional acres.
11. Use your imagination to figure out ways to update these leads:

The president is scheduled to leave this afternoon for a vacation in Florida, where he will work
on a new budget. The hurricane is off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, and could hit the mainland
within the next three hours. Striking autoworkers are meeting at this hour to decide whether to
accept the auto industry’s latest contract offer. The countdown has begun at Cape Canaveral for the
launching of the space shuttle Atlantis.

The hurricane is off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida within the next three hours the hurricane could
hit the mainland, where the president was scheduled for a vacation to work for a new budget. In
the Cape Canaveral the countdown has begun for the launching of the space shuttle Atlantis, striking
the autoworkers are in meeting at this hour to decide whether to accept the auto industry’s latest
contract offer.

12. Using any of the types of leads discussed in this chapter, write a story from the following
information:

Lori and Kevin were married today. It was exactly 30 years ago to the day that they met. When
they were teenagers the two had dated for about a year after after meeting on a blind datein
1963. “I remember the date, of course, because it was my birthday,” said Lori Scott. Lori and
Kevin Rowce broke up following a fight. They both married and had a children and had not seen
each other for 29 years. Kevin contacted Lori when he heard from a friend that her husband has
died. Kevin had been divorced a number of years ago. They decided to marry after dating for the
past year.

Lori and Kevin had a blind date when they were teenagers date 1963. They broke up afyer the
following fight. Lori and Kevin are both married and had a children, it’s been 29 years not seeing
each other. Kevin had a divorced to his wife when he knew that Lori’s husband died, they
decided to marry after dating for the past year.