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WorksheetsEvolution Of Newspaper
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
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
What event in U.S. history is synonymous with William Randolph Hearst and Yellow Journalism?
The Spanish-American War
The Civil War
The New York Mafia Wars
World War I
What was the name of Pulitzer's newspaper which he ran in New York?
New York Daily
New York Times
New York World
New York Day
Who invented the Printing Press?
Johanes Gutenberg
James Guidry
James Gutenberg
Jonathan Smith
Which media member became known as the first television news "anchor man" while working at CBS?
Walter Cronkite
Edward R. Murrow
Matt Lauer
Tom Brokaw
These two journalists at the Washington Post broke the Watergate scandal story.
Woodrow & Bernstein
Woodrow & Blackson
Woodward & Brokaw
Woodward & Bernstein
Who was responsible for creating the role of anchorman in 1950s broadcast journalism?
Walter Winchell
Walter Cronkite
Walter Junior
Walter Harris
What important invention of the 19th century helped transmit Civil War stories quickly?
The television
The radio
The camera
The telegraph
What asylum did Nellie Bly enter for 10 days to expose and report upon its poor conditions for patients?
New York's Blackwell Center Asylum
New Jersey's Blackwell Island Asylum
Arkham Asylum
New York's Blackwell Island Asylum
Which war was prominent during the Yellow Journalism Era and fueled Pulitzer and Hearst's scandalous stories?
Revolutionary War
Civil War
French-Indian War
Spanish-American War
What was the name of Upton Sinclair's novel that focused on the appalling and nauseating conditions of the meat-packing industries in 1908?
The Factory
The Jungle
The Warehouse
The Meat
Edward R. Murrow exposed Senator McCarthy's false accusations during the "Red Scare" on what television broadcast?
The Today Show
See it Now
60 Minutes
Read All About It
What was Nellie Bly's pen name?
Ida Tarbell
Elizabeth Cochrane
Silence Dogood
Martha Stewart
Which of the following newspapers did William Randolph Hearst own during the Yellow Journalism Era?
The New York Herald
The New York World
The New York Times
The New York Morning Journal
How are newspaper news articles traditionally structured?
Inverted Pyrmaid
Exverted pyramid
What is investigative journalism?
Traditional reporting that follows the inverted pyramid
A type of newspaper reporting that uncovers information that sources have tried to cover up
Opinion of the newspaper on events happening
All of the above
