Columbia Journalism School Writing Test
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT ANSWERS
With the the evolution of social media as a platform where information is constantly being
released what are the roles of journalists and the journalism field in these times? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔
Give the names of 5 people whom were being currently covered on Media and it was to ask
them 5 questions, that journalists might not have already asked them. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔
Write a short essay on a major news event that happened this year, with how I would have
covered it? What else I would have done when covering the event? What did I think was
missing from the coverage of the event? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Bush on torture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Malala Yousafzai on education - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔One hundred and thirty million
girls are out of school. Earlier this year, someone asked me, "After everything you've been
through and everything you've seen, how do you keep from being hopeless?"
I thought about it and, after talking for a moment about all the things to be grateful for in my
own life, I said, "I think it's pointless to be hopeless. If you are hopeless, you waste your
present and your future."
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000001835296/class-dismissed.html
Kim Kardashian on celebrity culture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Think of any one prominent news story which has occurred in your country over the past year
and write a different take/view on the story. This can include other possible sources you
would talk to, different questions you would ask the key stakeholders, documents you would
ask for, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
, Write about one major problem faced by media outlets in your country and how you will be
able to help overcome this problem. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
All 9 Supreme Court justices - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Major cabinet members - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Likely/possible 2020 presidential candidates - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Every right guaranteed by the 1st Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It prevents the
government from making laws which regulate an establishment of:
- Religion
- Prohibit the free exercise of religion
- Abridge the freedom of speech
- Abridge the freedom of the press
- Abridge the right to peaceably assemble
- Abridge the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
All 15 nations currently on the UN Security Council - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
President of Columbia University - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dean of Columbia Journalism School - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Steve Coll
Greta Thunberg - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Swedish environmental activist on climate
change whose campaigning has gained international recognition.
Abiy Ahmed Ali - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to achieve
peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the
border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT ANSWERS
With the the evolution of social media as a platform where information is constantly being
released what are the roles of journalists and the journalism field in these times? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔
Give the names of 5 people whom were being currently covered on Media and it was to ask
them 5 questions, that journalists might not have already asked them. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔
Write a short essay on a major news event that happened this year, with how I would have
covered it? What else I would have done when covering the event? What did I think was
missing from the coverage of the event? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Bush on torture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Malala Yousafzai on education - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔One hundred and thirty million
girls are out of school. Earlier this year, someone asked me, "After everything you've been
through and everything you've seen, how do you keep from being hopeless?"
I thought about it and, after talking for a moment about all the things to be grateful for in my
own life, I said, "I think it's pointless to be hopeless. If you are hopeless, you waste your
present and your future."
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000001835296/class-dismissed.html
Kim Kardashian on celebrity culture - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Think of any one prominent news story which has occurred in your country over the past year
and write a different take/view on the story. This can include other possible sources you
would talk to, different questions you would ask the key stakeholders, documents you would
ask for, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
, Write about one major problem faced by media outlets in your country and how you will be
able to help overcome this problem. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
All 9 Supreme Court justices - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Major cabinet members - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Likely/possible 2020 presidential candidates - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
Every right guaranteed by the 1st Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔It prevents the
government from making laws which regulate an establishment of:
- Religion
- Prohibit the free exercise of religion
- Abridge the freedom of speech
- Abridge the freedom of the press
- Abridge the right to peaceably assemble
- Abridge the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
All 15 nations currently on the UN Security Council - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
President of Columbia University - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dean of Columbia Journalism School - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Steve Coll
Greta Thunberg - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Swedish environmental activist on climate
change whose campaigning has gained international recognition.
Abiy Ahmed Ali - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to achieve
peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the
border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
