Chapter 1 Bringing Information to an Audience

Did not look like they used to. Often were only one sheet long and contained little of what they are now. Publick Occurences was first attempt.

• First Websites

• First Newspapers

• First Newsbites

• First Texting

Journalism that crusades for social justice or to expose wrongdoing.

• Yellow journalism

• Sedition

• Libel

• Muckraking

A sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographs, screaming headlines, frauds and endless promotions of the newspapers themselves. The term derives from the term Yellow Kid. A cartoon character popular in the late nineteenth century.

• Yellow journalism

• Sedition

• Libel

• Muckraking

(n.) a written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation of the person about whom it is made; (v.) to write or publish such a statement

• Yellow journalism

• Sedition

• Libel

• Muckraking

News agencies that send bullitins and other information to newspaper, radio, and television offices all over the world

• Wire Services

• Tabloid Press

• Penny Press

• Shock Jocks

"fake" news

• Wire Services

• Tabloid Press

• Penny Press

• Shock Jocks

Newspapers that, because of technological innovations in printing, were able to drop their price to one cent, therefore making papers affordable to working and middle classes and enabled newspapers to become a genuine mass medium

• Wire Services

• Tabloid Press

• Penny Press

• Shock Jocks

Make careers out of being insulting, and outrageous, saying whatever comes to their minds apparently in the hope that their comments will offend.

• Wire Services

• Tabloid Press

• Penny Press

• Shock Jocks

A journalist's core role is to bring timely and accurate information and ideas to a mass ________.

• media

• audience

• mania

• producer

Text messages can be journalism because the information read or viewed is ________.

• timely

• exciting

• accurate

• cool