How Do Reporters Know if the News Is the Truth?

News Time is celebrating Media Literacy Week with a takeover by eight-year-old budding journalist Rosie.

Rosie grills regular News Time host, Ruby, about how the media works, where news comes from and how we know whether a story is fake.

When you're finished listening to the podcast, take this quiz to test your knowledge:

QUESTIONS:

1. What is 'breaking' news?

2. What is a news 'source'?

3. What is a 'byline'?

4. Whose job is it to 'fact-check' information?

5. Which of these skills does Ruby say is the most important for budding journalists: Writing, talking, or listening?

ANSWERS:

1. News that's happening right at that moment.

2. People or places journalists get their information from.

3. The reporter's name on the story.

4. The journalist's.

5. Listening.