
Evolution Of Newspaper
Authored by Bernie Echapare
Journalism
7th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Journalists who investigated corruption, social institutions, and politics and promoted social responsibility were called ________________________.
yellow journalists
editors
muckrakers
newsies
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
___________________ 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
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
In the mid 1890s, a style of journalism called ________________________ began that involved hoaxes, sensationalism, cheap melodrama, and frauds.
muckraking
yellow journalism
false journalism
photojournalism
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
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
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The inverted pyramid style of journalism puts the ___________________ facts in the first paragraph.
first
names and dates of
most important
least important
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
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)
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
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
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