Ch 8 Summary

Question 1

generally represented the views of one political party

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partisan press

Question 2

served business leaders who were interested in economic issues

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commercial press

Question 3

reported on local events, scandals, police reports, and serialized stories

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penny paper

Question 4

appealed to a mass audience that included lower- and middle-class readers

Answer 4

human-interest stories

Question 5

crusading for social reform on behalf of the public good

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yellow journalism

Question 6

commercial organizations, such as the Associated Press, that share news stories and information by relaying them around the country and the world, originally via telegraph and now via satellite transmission

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wire services

Question 7

news reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly in business and government.

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investigative journalism

Question 8

the ideal for modern journalists;

modern style of journalism that distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns; reporters strive to remain neutral toward the issue or event they cover, searching out competing points of view among the sources for a story

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objective journalism

Question 9

style of journalism in which news reports begin with the most dramatic or newsworthy information—answering who, what, where,and when (and less frequently why or how) questions at the top of the story—and then trail off with less significant details.

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inverted-pyramid style

Question 10

type of journalism that involves analyzing and explaining key issues or events and placing them in a broader historical or social context.

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interpretive journalism

Question 11

news reports that adapt fictional storytelling techniques to nonfictional material; sometimes called new journalism

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literary journalism

Question 12

found in small communities, newspapers that promote social and economic harmony by providing community calendars and meeting notices and carrying articles on local schools, social events, town government, property crimes, and zoning issues.

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consensus-oriented journalism

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found in metropolitan areas, newspapers that define news primarily as events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms; journalists see their role as observers who monitor their city’s institutions and problems.

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conflict-oriented journalism

Question 14

questioned mainstream politics and conventional values by voicing radical opinions

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underground press

Question 15

the space in a paper that isn’t taken up by advertising

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newshole

Question 16

commercial outlets or brokers, such as United Features and King Features, that contract with newspapers to provide work from well-known political writers, editorial cartoonists, comic-strip artists, and self-help columnists.

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feature syndicates

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large company that owns several papers throughout the country.

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newspaper chains

Question 18

n the newspaper industry, an economic arrangement, sanctioned by the government, that permits competing newspapers to operate separate editorial divisions while merging business and production operations.

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joint operating agreements (JOAs)

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charging their readers for access to online content

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paywalls

Question 20

a grassroots movement wherein activist amateurs and concerned citizens, not professional journalists, use the Internet and blogs to disseminate news and information.

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citizen journalism