History of Journalism

The two societies known for their advancements in news reporting are Rome and England

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• False

The printing press was created and named by Johann Gutenberg

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• False

The changes in Journalism after World War 1 & 2 include the addition of columns, comic strips and editorial cartoons.

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• False

In the 1950s journalism was revolutionized by technology, including computers, laptops and mobile phones.

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• False

The Gutenberg press uses immovable type blocks and was set by hand

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• False

Yellow Journalism is...

• reporters who leave the scene of an event early

• real news that has been dulled down to

  please the audience

• journalists who yell at their audience

• sensationalized (embellished or made up stories to hook readers)

What did the invention of the printing press allow for?

• Trees to die a terrible death

• More farming to be done across the land

• More counterfeit money being printed

• News to be circulated in Europe and some of the colonies in America

How did the Civil War (1861-1865) change reporting?

• First use of large headlines

• First use of illustrations and photographs

• Made it a crime to read the paper

• Made it more fake

What did the Freedom of Information Act in 1966 allow for?

• Governments to freely withhold information from citizens

• American citizens to tell their secrets

• Foreigners to access private and political documents

• Citizens and reporters to request copies of government records

Who were the two titans responsible for the creation of yellow journalism?

• William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

• Dan Rather and Anderson Cooper

• William Blake and Charles Sheldon

• Robert Woodward and Hunter Thompson