Influence on News and Journalism

What are spin doctors?

• Journalists who gather news stories

• Press officers who manage news stories

• Government ministers who feed news to reporters

• Powerful groups who shape news stories

What is the role of spin doctors?

• To gather news stories

• To manage news stories favorably for the government

• To challenge news values

• To sell brief reports of world news

According to Davis, why should journalists be renamed 'churnalists'?

• Because they gather news actively

• Because they rewrite stories from other sources

• Because they get news from government spin doctors

• Because they are passive processors of second-hand material

What percentage of tabloid stories come from PR people and not journalists?

• 20%

• 40%

• 60%

• 80%

What is the effect of churnalism on news stories?

• They become more diverse

• They provide multiple sides of stories

• They become very uniform

• They increase the choice for readers

What is citizen journalism?

• Journalism done by citizens

• Journalism done by professional journalists

• Journalism done by government spin doctors

• Journalism done by PR companies

What has led to the increase in citizen journalism?

• Development of the internet and digital technology

• Redundancy of journalists

• Availability of smartphones and social networking

• All of the above

What does Matt Drudge say about citizen journalism?

• It is decreasing in importance

• It is not a reliable source of news

• It is increasing in importance

• It is only used by mainstream news sites

How can viewers contribute to newsrooms in the UK?

• By sending pictures/videos of events via mobile phone

• By posting stories or photos on social media

• By texting information to newsrooms

• All of the above

Where did most of the 'live' pictures from the attacks in Paris in 2015 come from?

• Journalists on the ground

• Government spin doctors

• Mobile phones

• PR companies