History of Journalism

What was the first newspaper printed?

• Publick Occurrences

• Boston Globe

• New York Times

• Boston Herald

What does it mean to for a paper to be published "with authority"?

• The writers knew what they were talking about.

• The government told the paper what to write.

• The paper had the government's approval.

What was the first daily newspaper called?

• Washington Post

• Patriot Post

• Pennsylvania Post

• New York Post

Why were the penny press newspapers called "penny press"?

• You could buy one for five pennies.

• The first publisher was named Penny.

• They all ran pictures of Abraham Lincoln, who was on the penny.

• They cost 1 cent.

What year did the court case occur that established truth as a defense against libel?

• 1715

• 1735

• 1776

• 1800

Journalists who investigated corruption, social institutions, and politics and promoted social responsibility were called ________________________.

• yellow journalists

• editors

• muckrakers

• newsies

___________________ was the pen name of a journalist who pretended to be mentally ill and was committed to New York's Blackwell Insane Asylum in order to write a story about the poor conditions of the asylum.

• William Heart

• Andrew Hamilton

• Dorothea Lange

• Nellie Bly

The inverted pyramid style of journalism puts the ___________________ facts in the first paragraph.

• first

• names and dates of

• most important

• least important

In the mid 1890s, a style of journalism called ________________________ began that involved hoaxes, sensationalism, cheap melodrama, and frauds.

• muckraking

• yellow journalism

• false journalism

• photojournalism

The reporters, editors, photographers, producers and camera crews who sift through the many happenings of a day to tell you what's important or interesting are called ____________________.

• journalists

• staffers

• sources

• gaffers