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WorksheetsComm271-Principles of Journalism Quiz Review 1
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is the First Amendment?
The right to gather news generally, does not need handed over to the government
Right to record
Civil rights/lawsuits
Arbritary arrests, search and seizure
Ability to request info and receive it from government entities
Right to footage from the police
What is the Fourth Amendment?
To do no harm
Requires agencies to deliberate and take official action on agency business in an open and public meeting
Ability to record if you are party to the. conversation or if one party has knowledge of the recording and consents to it.
Arbritray arrests, search and seizure (legitimate reason or securing warrant)
Which law prohibits law enforcement officials from searching for or seizing information from reporters?
Privacy Protection Law of 1980
Pennsylvania Sunshine Act
Pennsylvania Act 22 of 2017
PA Right to Know Law
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
Ability to request info and receive it from government entities, federal and national agencies
Right to us a colophon
Right to (limited) footage from police
Right to record
What is the ability to request info and receive it from government entities for state-related info in Pennsylvania?
PA Act 22
Fourth Amendment
PA Right to Know Law
Freedom of Information Act
What is the Pennsylvania Act 22 of 2017?
You have the right to footage from the police, just very limited and covers all audio/video footage
The right to gather news generally
The right to request and receive info from government entities
Right to search and seizure
What is one-party consent?
You can record if you are party to the conversation or if one party has knowledge of the recording and consents to it.
Pertains to in person-convo, phone calls, and other electronic communications.
One-party consent is the minimum requirement for these conversations
Anyone can listen in on a conversation and record it.
What is all-party consent?
To conduct the public's bussiness in private.
Requires consent of all parties involved before a conversation can be recorded. Everyone's permission is needed.
Legal to record face to face when recording device is in plain view
Ability to record if you are party to the conversation
What recording law is defined as legal to record face to face when recording device is in plain view and consent is presumed?
Regarded consent
One-party consent
Implied consent
All-party consent
What is an observer?
Able to record no matter what.
Illegal to record a conversation to which you are not a party
Sharing info and evoking emotion
Government officials speaking in public can be recorded.
General consensus of courts have recognized constitutional right to record (a) engaged in duties in a public place.
What is PA?
All-party state
One-party state
Implied consent party state
Observer consent state
What are the ways to approach sources both generally and in trauma situations?
What two states are outliers in their recording laws?
Hawaii
Oregon
Maine
Pennsylvania
What is the Works Progress Administration?
Program created and run from 1935-1943 employing many to carry out public works projects
A project containing works of art such as slave narratives, life history, and folklore
A program that helped with federal assistance
Led to the creation of the Department of Agriculture
This created around 100 new government offices and 40 new agencies
(a)
Created by FDR and notably contained slave narratives, life history and folklore, America Eats, and state guide books
Federal Writers Project
Federal Arts Project
Works Progress Administration
New Deal
What led to the first documented conversation around ethics in journalism?
Photographers in the Federal Works Projects
Slave Narrative Project
WWII
Works Progress Administration
What is the definition of documentary?
How we make our approach
To recognize those who came before us
To do no harm
To share info and/or evoke emotion
What are the differences between editorial and reportage?
Editorial-opinion is not reportage
Reportage-confirming facts with another source
Reportage-fact driven
Editorial-Factual opinions
To confirm something is true
Evidence
Verification
Corroboration
Fact-checking
Confirming a piece of information
Evidence
Verification
Corroboration
Fact-checking
To confirm a fact or story with another source
Evidence
Verification
Corroboration
Fact-checking
Information that proves something to be true
Evidence
Verification
Corroboration
Fact-checking
(a) means the information can be used with no qualms.
(a) means that the information said by a source is not permissible to be used in an interview
What do Maynard's Fault lines do?
Divide us and prove our differences are good
Make assumptions about sources
Influence how people understand news reports and how we frame news stories
Represent issues that have shaped society and divided our country
Help us include the voices of people who are affected by what's happening
Prioritize them in the story
Help explain why 2 people experience the same event differently
Function as the common way we identify ourselves and how we consider one's intersectionality
(a) bias is deliberately held beliefs about a person or group
(a) bias is seeking info to confirm your belief system
(a) bias are beliefs about others or ideas that are outside of our conscious awareness
A bias that is the 1st information received disproportionately influencing later judgments
Implicit bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Explicit bias
A bias that focuses only on what you know/what is shown and is a lack of perspective
Implicit bias
Anchoring bias
Availability heuristic
Explicit bias
A bias that aligns with thinking as a group, not individually
Anchoring bias
Bandwagon effect
Ostrich
Explicit Bias
A bias in which we think we are better than others
Bandwagon effect
Availability heurstic
Ostrich
Blind spot
A bias in which negative information is ignored
Ostrich
Anchoring bias
Bandwagon
Implicit bias
Source audits are...
A way to tell whether a story needs a diverse group of sources
A way to set expectations with your editor
Meetings held to make sure that news organizations are or are not including voices in their communities
A public service
What is engagement reporting?
Interviewing with the aim of bringing readers and sources into the reporting process
A way for journalists to get information out of unwilling sources
An outdated method of reporting that is no longer used
Public powered journalism
What type of journalism is about covering what works without the fluff?
Solutions journalism
Engagement reporting
Reaching out through the mail
Gaining new sources
What are the three levels of media impact?
Changed groups. changed stories, changed individuals
Change individuals, changed writers, changed reflections
Changed information, changed media, changed news stations
Changed individuals, changed groups, changed conditions
