Fill in the gaps using active vocabulary.

I started my career as a journalist working as a reporter on the local.............................................. (1)in my home town. The first thing I had to do was to take over the role of agony aunt. This was quite difficult for an eighteen-year-old boy straight out of school! Still, I managed to produce enough............................................... (2) and in time for my first............................................... (3). When that first column of mine............................................... (4) to press, I felt extremely relieved and was so proud that I stayed up all night so that I could get half a dozen copies............................................ (5) off the press for all the members of my family! I still have a copy of that first article of mine in a folder where I keep.......................................... (6) of all the work that I am especially proud of.

Rewrite these sentences so that they mean the same thing using the word in brackets.

1. Every newspaper inevitably gives its own particular view of events. (spin)

2. I have to find some articles from some previous editions of The Times. (back)

3. Read all about the royal divorce! Only just published. (hot)

4. The floods took up more space in the papers than any other story this week. (column)

5. Politicians are always ready and willing to give their opinions to the press. (air)

6. The story about the scandal surrounding her uncle broke on her wedding day. (hit)

7. Any newspaper does all it can to prevent being sued for libel. (character)

8. Muck-raking is a characteristic activity of an inferior kind of newspaper. (press)