Evolution Of Newspaper

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

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

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

• first

• names and dates of

• most important

• least important

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)

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

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

What was the name of the act that taxed all printed and official documents?

• The Townshend Acts

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Sugar Act

This person, along with Hearst, created the New York Newspaper Wars of the 1890s.

• Joseph Pulitzer

• Nellie Bly

• Charles Foster Kane

• William Henderson