WorksheetsHistory of Journalism
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
What was the first daily newspaper called?
Washington Post
Patriot Post
Pennsylvania Post
New York Post
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.
The ‘penny press’ was considered the paper of whom?
Accountants
Abraham Lincoln
The Common Man
Ronald McDonald
What year did the court case occur that established truth as a defense against libel?
1715
1735
1776
1800
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
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
The Gutenberg press uses immovable type blocks and was set by hand
True
False
What did the invention of the printing press allow for?
Trees to die a terrible death
More farming to be done across the land
More counterfeit money being printed
News to be circulated in Europe and some of the colonies in America
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)
Yellow Journalism is no longer an issue
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
