2019 Multiplatform Editing Internship Test

2019 Multiplatform Editing 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, Editing and Headline Writing and Part 5, Brainstorming online content. Answers must be written on the test. Test-takers are permitted to have only blank paper, pens and pencils. Headlines and tweets should be written in designated spaces. Each letter or space counts as one unit. For example, this headline would have the following count: Editing Test Called Easy (24 units). 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 without written permission of the Dow Jones News Fund. Copyright ? 2018 Dow Jones News Fund, Inc.

PART 1 -- CURRENT EVENTS - Fill in the correct answer.

1. The death toll in Puerto Rico following _____________________________________ was raised from 64 to 2,975.

2. The United States began since-stalled denuclearization talks with ________________________________ in June.

3. Former Trump attorney __________________________________ pleaded guilty to eight felonies in federal court.

4. The ____________________________________ won the Super Bowl for the first time in the franchise's history.

5. The Queen of Soul, _________________________________, was memorialized in a week of celebrations in Detroit.

6. Teachers in these four states struck and won raises and increased spending for education in 2018.

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7. The U.S. instituted a ___________________________ policy for families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border that mandated _________________________________________.

8. _______________________, former U.N. Secretary General, and playwright _____________________died in August.

9. ___________________________________________is the most recent U.S. Supreme Court associate justice to retire.

PART 2 ? GRAMMAR AND USAGE ? Circle the correct word. 1. Federal courts ruled two state legislatures unlawfully jerrymandered / gerrymandered voting districts. 2. Some networked copier brands are susceptible to hackers but Xerox / xerox has stayed a step ahead. 3. An arbiter / arbitrator ruled Colin Kaepernick's lawsuit against the NFL alleging collusion can go to trial. 4. Neither asylum seekers nor / or those with temporary protected status is / are safe from deportation. 5. The #MeToo movement took off after women who were leery / leary of backlash and recriminations spoke out. 6. The town rallied around an 18-month-old / 18 month old / 18 mo. old boy diagnosed with inoperable cancer. 7. The successful applicant will have at least 5 / five years' / years experience as a social media manager. 8. Unknown soldiers of several American wars have lain in state in the Capitol / Capital rotunda. 9. Chamber of commerce staffers canvased / canvassed merchants in the proposed enterprise zone. 10. How did the governor gage / gauge community support for or opposition to legalizing recreational marijuana? 11. The principal wasn't adverse / averse to students demonstrating off-campus after school. 12. The retiree insisted on applying for the position though told the deadline had past / passed. 13. The 106-year-old woman was preceded / proceeded in death by her husband, sons and daughter. 14. Engaging writing is often full of literary illusions / allusions. 15. With no financial stake in the vocal contest, the talent scout was a / an uninterested / disinterested judge. 16. Anti-KKK signs were laid / layed on the lawn ahead of a white supremacist rally across from the White House. 17. The federal deficit is projected to increase by 1 Trillion Dollars / one trillion dollars / $1 trillion over a decade. 18. The U.S. Embassy's move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv is a brake / break from past policy. 19. The Boston Marathon is scheduled to start at 8:40 a.m. / 8:40 A.M. / 8:40 am in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

PART 3 ? GEOGRAPHY. Name the state and place the number of the corresponding question on the map.

1. Hurricane Harvey devastated the southern part of this state. _________________________ 2. The first in the nation to end cash bail. ____________________________________ 3. A gunman killed two gamers and himself at the Madden Classic Tournament.________________________ 4. Serena Williams caused a stir wearing a black tutu at the U.S. Open. _______________________________ 5. Its Supreme Court judges were impeached. __________________________________________ 6. Dr. Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in state prison for sexually assaulting hundreds of female gymnasts. _______________________ 7. A man opened fire at a local newspaper killing five members of its staff. _____________________________ 8. African-Americans are gubernatorial candidates in three states. ____________________________________ ___________________________________________________

PART 4 -- EDITING AND HEADLINE WRITING: Edit the following story and explain your edits in the margin. Write a one-line headline with a maximum count of 26 including spaces and a tweet on the lines below. PRINT HEADLINE

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TWEET ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________

If you have been feeling depressed, it may be worth taking a look at what you eat. While the topic isn't one psychiatrists and therapists often ask about, a growing body of research show that a healthy diet -- high in fruit, vegetables, whole grains, fish and unprocessed lean red meat--can prevent depression. And an unhealthy -- high in processed and refined foods -- can increase your risk for the disease.

Further, recent studies show that a healthy diet also could affectively treat depression even after it has started. The findings are spurning the rise of nutritional psychiatry. The annual American Psychiatric Association conference has started including presentations on nutrition and psychiatry, including one last year by chef David Bouley on foods that support the peripheral nervous system.

Some medical schools, including Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, are beginning to teach psychiatry residents about the importance of diet on mental health. Depression has many causes -- it may be genetic, triggered by a specific event or situation, such as loneliness, or brought on by lifestyle choices. But it's really about an unhealthy brain, and too often people forget this.

When we think of cardiac health, we think of strengthening an organ, the heart, says Drew Ramsey, a psychiatrist in New York, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia and author of "Eat Complete."

"We need to start thinking of strengthening another organ, the brain, when we think of mental health."

Others are skeptical. A practicing psychiatrist who requested anonymity called the movement a fad. "Later studies will expose flaws in the research they are irresponsibly citing. Patients will have been hurt in the meantime," he says.

PART 4 -- EDITING AND HEADLINE WRITING: Edit the following story and explain your edits in the margin. Write a one-line headline with a maximum count of 25, a Search Engine Optimization headline and a tweet. PRINT HEADLINE

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TWEET _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________

WASHIGNTON--When news of an enormous Facebook breach broke, Chris Wellens couldn't help feeling a little smug. After all, nearly all the information the technology executive had given the social media giant was false.

While Ms. Welens does use her real name on Facebook, she lies about nearly everything else: "It says that I graduated from Trinity College in Dublin. I've never been to Ireland. It says my undergraduate degree is in gymnastics. Anyone who knows me knows that is laughable, because I'm not very physically flexible."

Ms. Wellens, who is 65, put 1910 as her birth year with the idea that advertisers don't tend to bother with people more than 90-years-old. The result? She sees a lot of ads for slippers.

Facebook says authenticity is key to the social network and rigorously policed, and that false information violates the terms of service agreement.

"Each day, we block millions of fake accounts at registration," says a Facebook Inc. spokeswoman--who declined to be named. "Our systems examine thousands of account attributes and focus on detecting behaviours that are very difficult for bad actors to fake, including their connections to others on our platform."

Dan Hastings, a software engineer in Ireland, says he almost lost decade of gaming history and thousands of euros of purchases when he was locked out of the Sony PlayStation Network after forgetting his fake birth date. He first called customer service, to no avail.

Then Hastings discovered a loophole -- tweaking the recovery website address to leapfrog the birthday question. His post explaining the process is one of the most popular on his gaming site.

Sony PlayStation didn't respond to a request for comment.

PART 5 ? BRAINSTORMING ONLINE CONTENT For each of the stories in Part 4 ? List three ideas on how to present the stories online. Detail the hyperlinks, graphics, visual/audio/interactive elements or sidebars/breakouts you would include to enhance the user experience. Assume you have any resource you need to create any content you think appropriate. Keep your ideas short as long as your intent is clear. No points are given for the length of your answers. DEPRESSION STORY

FACEBOOK STORY

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. 12, 2018, to the Dow Jones News Fund, P.O. Box 300, Princeton, NJ 08543-0300.

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