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WorksheetsNewspapers & Journalism
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Joseph Pulitzer's longstanding legacy in the field of journalism is ...
tabloids
yellow journalism
objective, investigative reporting
editorial, opinion pieces
News agencies devote more space in print, broadcast, and digital media to news stories than to advertising.
FALSE
TRUE
This not-for-profit journalistic wire service employs over 3,200 staff in 254 locations across 100 countries.
CNN
Associated Press
New York Times
The National Enquirer
The practice of individuals and special interest groups creating fictitious stories and feeding them into social media streams is ...
objective reporting
public journalism
news hole
fake news
News reporting on all relevant sides of an issue that allows representatives of those various sides the same coverage is ...
soft news
fairness
frame
beat
Approximately 75 percent of the top 100 global newspaper agencies are located in the United States.
TRUE
FALSE
Journalists who use investigative reporting to uncover corporate or government misconduct, corruption, and unethical practices are known as ...
paparazzi
correlators
citizen journalist
muckrakers
_______ describes media's role in deciding which topics to cover and consequently which topics the public deems important.
watch dogs
pseudo-events
agenda setting
surveillance
Our freedom of press is protected by the ______________.
2nd Amendment
Bill of Rights
1st Amendment
Declaration of Independence
The use of massive quantities of journalistic raw data incorporated into more readable, relevant stories and uses for audiences across numerous sources is ...
convergence
crowdsourcing
contextualization
none of these
Which of the following is NOT one of the journalistic guidelines of the Associated Press?
truth and accuracy in reporting
maintaining the integrity of the news
paying sources well for information
avoiding conflicts of interest
William Randolph Hearst's legacy as a yellow, or tabloid, journalist is most relatable to modern examples like the ____________.
Economist magazine
The New York Times
The National Enquirer
The Washington Post
Journalism is indispensable to democratic societies; history reveals that the more democratic a society, the more news and information it tends to have.
False
True
_______ is the structure or angle given a news story that influences reader understanding covering the events.
news hole
Framing
objectivity
beat
____ reporting places the facts of a story in a broader context by relying on the reporter's knowledge and experience.
Crowdsourcing
Citizen
Constructive
Interpretive
______ is a concept that describes that free press advocates a DIVERSITY of voices in the belief that the truth and the best ideas will win out in competition.
Journalism
News
Tabloid journalism
Marketplace of ideas
____ can be defined as the use of raw data gathered from the public and citizens journalists including social media to help create journalism stories.
Interpretive reporting
Crowdsourcing
Alternative journalism
Constructive journalism
The Daily Show, ESPN's The Rundown, and blogs are examples of _________ news sources.
investigative
nontraditional
constructive
hard
