2018 Digital Media Internship Test

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INSTRUCTIONS
Please read these instructions before beginning.
The test has a one-hour time limit. It consists of five parts: Part 1, Current Events; Part 2, Grammar; Part 3, Geography; Part 4, Story Treatment and
Part 5, Digital Treatment. Test-takers are permitted to have only blank paper, pens and pencils. Headlines and tweets should be written on the lines
indicated.
Do not begin the test until you have been instructed to do so by the monitor.
Participants and monitors for this national competition should not divulge the contents of this exercise. No parts of this exercise can be reproduced
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PART 1 — CURRENT EVENTS 20 POINTS

1. England was the site of at least two terror attacks, including one that began on London BRIDGE and
another at a concert by ARIANA GRANDE______________ in Manchester.

2. _NEIL GORSUCH was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, returning the court to ____9/NINE____ members

3. After 146 years, the __RINGLING BROTHERS & BARNUM AND BAILEY CIRCUS_________ gave its final performance in
May.
4. Juan Manuel Santos, president of COLOMBIA___,, won the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to end his
country’s civil war.

5. UNITED AIRLINES_______ took a public relations hit when Dr. David Dao was dragged off one of its planes.

6. A jury found a Minnesota police officer __NOT GUILTY__ in the death of Philando Castile.

7. MOONLIGHT, not ___LA LA LAND______, won the Oscar for Best Picture.

8. On August 21, a ___TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE_____ crossed the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina.

9. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for LITERATURE____________..

10. President Trump reversed Barack Obama’s easing of diplomatic relations with CUBA___.
Underneath each photo, identify the person by their name and news identity. 10 POINTS

ROBERT MUELLER ANGELA MERKEL BEN CARSON CARRIE FISHER NIKKI HALEY

GERMAN CHANCELLOR__ ACTRESS, DIED

HUD SECRETARY UN AMBASSADOR
SPECIAL COUNSEL_

Names (in alphabetical order) Identity (in alphabetical order)

Ben Carson Actress, died
Carrie Fisher British prime minister
Nikki Haley German chancellor
Theresa May Housing and Urban Development secretary
Angela Merkel Russia investigation special counsel
Robert Mueller U.S. ambassador to U.N.

PART 2 – GRAMMAR, USAGE AND PUNCTUATION: Underline the correct choice in each example. 12 POINTS

1. Soviet President Vladimir Putin rebutted / refuted claims he interfered with U.S. elections.

2. Gov. Christie, photographed laying / lying on a beach chair, had closed that beach to the public during a budget
impasse.

3. “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” is a quote that / which Ernest Hemingway never said.

4. The hot air balloon collided with / hit power lines before it crashed, killing 16 people.

5. Trapped in a flooded compartment / Its starboard side caved in, seven sailors died when the USS Fitzgerald was
struck by a cargo ship.

6. Despite discrete / discreet settlements of sexual harassment allegations, Fox News fired Bill O’Reilly.

7. Everyone / Every one of New Orleans’ Confederate statues were / was removed.

8. Chelsea Manning, born Edward on December 17, 1987 / December 17, 1987, / Dec. 17, 1987 / Dec. 17, 1987, was
pardoned by President Obama.

9. "The president used the word “wiretaps” / 'wiretaps' in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities,"
said White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

10. President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accord, saying it adversely / aversely affects / effects the United
States.
PART 3 – GEOGRAPHY. Name the state and place the number for each question on the map. 14 POINTS

5
4

2
6
1

1. Fire destroyed an abandoned warehouse that had been converted into an arts collective, killing 36, in
CALIFORNIA
________________________________.

ILLINOIS.
2. The team that ended the “Curse of the Billy Goat” by winning the World Series is in ________________________.

3. The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires killed 14 and damaged more than 1,600 structures in
TENNESSEE.
___________________________________.

OREGON.
4. Two men died when they tried to stop an anti-Muslim rant aimed at two young women in ____________________.

NORTH DAKOTA to protest a pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
5. Thousands camped out in _______________

6. A woman was killed and more than 20 were injured when a driver rammed counter-protesters at a white supremacist
rally in VIRGINIA.

7. Ten smuggled immigrants died in a boiling hot tractor-trailer in TEXAS.

PART 4 — STORY TREATMENT: A. Edit the following story and explain your edits in the margin.
B. Write a Search Engine Optimization headline C. Write a tweet.

SEO HEADLINE

James Comey urges FBI colleagues to move on from his firing

29 POINTS
TWEET Hed=12; tweet=10; story=7
Comey tells colleagues not to dwell on his firing or how it was done. Morale at FBI plummets as Trump changes his
rationale for the dismissal.

Former FBI Director JAMES Comey said in a farewell note to colleagues he had “long believed” a
president could fire an FBI director “for any reason, or for no reason at all,” in his first remarks to
be made public since he was fired.

Comey learned of his firing from a television news broadcast while at a law-enforcement event in Los
Angeles. Comey didn’t receive a courtesy call from the White House, and he initially thought it was
part of an elaborate joke, according to a close associate. The White House said IT WAS following
protocol in delivering the dismissal letter to his Washington office.

His dismissal has sent morale at the FBI plummeting, creating the most divisive atmosphere since J.
Edgar Hoover was director. Agents viewed the firing as a bellwether of President Donald Trump’s
willingness to work with the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016
Presidential election.

Trump initially said he fired Comey after receiving a THREE-page memo from Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein, in which he said Comey’s actions regarding Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton’s email use had led the FBI to lose the public’s trust.

But two days later, Trump said he was going to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein's recommendation.

The firing highlighted the fraught position of FBI directors, who often must run a gauntlet of conducting
impartial investigations amid political storms.

In Comey’s farewell letter, he said he hoped those at the FBI wouldn’t spend time on the decision or
the way it was executed.(”REMOVE) He also said he was disinterested in doing so himself.

“It is done, and I will be fine,” Comey said.

PART 5 — DIGITAL TREATMENT. List three ideas on how to present the Comey story online. Be specific about the
elements you would use and their placement in the piece.
15 POINTS
Embed an image of the memo Comey sent to his colleagues

Pull excerpts of the Rosenstein memo calling for his ouster

Link to video of Comey's testimony regading the Russia investigation

Link to the White House press conference in the aftermath of the dismissal

A searchable database of FBI directors and why/how they left office

FINAL INSTRUCTIONS: When you have finished, return this test to your monitor whose signature will certify it was completed
within one hour. The monitor must mail your test postmarked by Nov. 1, 2017, to the Dow Jones News Fund,
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