TASK 11. Fill in the gaps below with the name of the appropriate media job.

1. I didn't think the book was as bad as the ________ said it was.

2. Joe Shuster, ________ who developed the original Superman comic character, died in Los Angeles, aged seventy-eight.

3. If this mistake was not the fault of some over-zealous ________, them Mr Bailey ought to be ashamed of himself.

4. Herman submitted his paper for publication and the ________ sent it for reviews before deciding whether to publish it, ask for revisions or reject it.

5. All foreign ________ have been told to leave the war zone as soon as possible.

6. Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American ________. He started as a ________ owning ‘Australia's News Limited’, which he inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder of global media holding company ‘News Corporation’, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.

7. The ________ across the road arrived with a huge pile of ‘Mirrors’ at eight o'clock and he'd sold out all the newspapers by 10.

8. Dan Dorfman, the influential financial________, was fired by ‘Money’ magazine, the magazine's managing editor said Wednesday.

9. I am a recent ________, having recently renewed my ________ for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue of your paper that has come to me in the post.

10. Nearly eight years after Mozart's death his widow, in response to a request from a famous ________ for relics of the composer, sent, among other Mozartiana, a packet of letters written to her by her husband.

11. The ‘Times’ ________ had to explain to his readers that the law of debtor and creditor was as yet only in a transitional state and that a very unsatisfactory one.

TASK 12. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.

cartoons	editorials	circulation	censorship	views
advertising	gossip columns	news agencies	reviews	headlines
correspondents	entertainment	sensational

A newspaper makes its money from the price people pay for it and also from the ________ (1) it carries. A popular newspaper with a ________ (2) of over five million daily makes a lot of money. Less serious newspapers are probably read just for ________ (3). They have big ________ (4) above the news stories, funny ________ (5) to look at and ________ (6) photos of violence. The ________ (7) are full of stories of the private lives of famous people. No one takes the political (8) of such papers very seriously. On the other hand, in a free country where there is no (9), serious newspapers are read principally for their news, sent to them by their ________ (10) round the world and by the big ________ (11). People also read these newspapers for their ________ (12) of new books, films and plays and for their ________ (13), which represent the opinion of the newspaper itself about the important events and issues of the moment.

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