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WorksheetsHistory of Journalism
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was the first newspaper printed?
Publick Occurrences
Boston Globe
New York Times
Boston Herald
What does it mean to for a paper to be published "with authority"?
The writers knew what they were talking about.
The government told the paper what to write.
The paper had the government's approval.
Why were the penny press newspapers called "penny press"?
You could buy one for five pennies.
The first publisher was named Penny.
They all ran pictures of Abraham Lincoln, who was on the penny.
They cost 1 cent.
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
The inverted pyramid style of journalism puts the ___________________ facts in the first paragraph.
first
names and dates of
most important
least important
In the mid 1890s, a style of journalism called ________________________ began that involved hoaxes, sensationalism, cheap melodrama, and frauds.
muckraking
yellow journalism
false journalism
photojournalism
What was the first lasting US radio network?
ABC
NBC
CBS
FOX
A ___________________ is a group of stations that broadcast the same programs at the same time.
monopoly
convergence
radio
network
This newspaper, published in 1704, was the first newspaper published with authority.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Times
The Boston Pops
The Boston News-Letter
What did the first newscast broadcast in 1916?
World Series
Super Bowl
Presidential Debate
Presidential Elections
The printing press was created and named by Johann Gutenberg
True
False
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
How do History and Journalism relate to each other?
They are both school subjects
History invented journalism
Presidential Elections
Without journalism we couldn't keep record of history
How were newspapers used toward the fight of revolution against America and England?
They were used to calm everyone down
They were used to sell ads and make money
They were used to gain support for the revolution
They weren't around then.
What we call "Fake News" now was once called
Tabloids
Gossip
Red journalism
Yellow Journalism
What war was caused by Yellow Journalism
The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
The Spanish-American War
The Persian Gulf War
What is Muckraking?
Investigative, socially conscious reporting
Manual labor
Political stereotypes
Bias in the news
