Chapter 11 - Evolving News Flashcards
Pathé Presents the first news reels in Paris
1909
First commercial radio news report given
1920
Billmore agreement ends the press-radio war
1933
Hindenburg explosion coverage shocks and amazes radio audience
1937
First network TV news casts given
1940
Radio news covers world war two
1941-1945
Coverage of Kennedy and Oswald assassination shows the power in the danger of our new up session with live TV news coverage
1963
Newspapers take to the world wide web
1995
CNN is founded
1980
Jon Stewart voted America’s most trusted newscaster
2009
Drudge report breaks the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
1998
September 11 attacks are planned for maximum TV coverage
2001
Short films (around 10 min. Long about the news of the day) dealing with current events, shown in movie theaters prior to the advent of television
Newsreels
Stories about events that are recurrent or long lasting such as floods or other natural disasters
Residual news
On-air discussions about the news
Commentaries
Happenings that would not have occurred if media were not there to record them
Pseudo events
Independent journalists who are paid only for material used
Stringers
Longform recorded examination of a social problem or historical subject
Documentary
The difference between what a government says in with the public believes to be true
Credibility gap
Information that users can access whenever they want
News on demand
An experimental system for delivering electronic newspaper so homes via television sets
Video text
Early online news services
Bulletin board services (BBSs)
Television clips that users can access whenever they want
Video on-demand (VOD)
The presentation of information that is timely, important, and interesting to its audience.
News
Characteristics that define news, including timeliness, importance, and interest.
News values
And angle, or perspective that makes information interesting to the audience.
Peg
The primary news reader, who appears in the broadcast news studio.
Anchor
Reporting the news with equipment that enables transmission be a satellite.
Satellite news gathering (SNG)
Reporting that uses portable field equipment.
Electronic news gathering (ENG)
Television correspondence to work alone with the laptop computer and a handheld camera in the field.
BackPack journalists
Point of view that is generally purported to be anti-big business, pro-big government, anti-religion, and anti-Republican.
Liberal bias
Point of view that is generally purported to be pro-big business, anti-big government, pro religion, and anti—Democrat.
Conservative bias
Failure of the news media to report on radical points of view.
Centrist bias
A subtle form of slanting that manifests itself and understated Ways
Creeping bias
Non-military reporters attached to a military unit.
Embedded Journalists
When were news reels replaced by television news?
News reels were replaced by television news in the 1950s.
Who broadcasted the results of the 1916 presidential election?
Lee De Forest
What was the Biltmore Agreement? Which year? And between which two broadcasting networks?
According to the Biltmore agreement, the radio networks would air only two 5-minute news casts each day. But this only lasted for a year. This agreement was between executives from the Columbia broadcasting system (CBS) & the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in 1933.
What kind of audio recording device was known to Americans prior to WW2…
The wire recorder. A device able to capture sound on a thin wire.
Who was the first all-news radio station?
KFAX (K-Facts) in 1960. They invented the “newspaper of the air” format by reading the entire newspaper over air for 24 hours a day
Which Murrow’s programs became the model for today’s TV newsmagazine programs?
CBC’s 60 Minutes and 20/20
In the 1950’s, who produced classic documentaries such as “Harvest of Shame”?
Edward R. Murrow & Fred Friendly
When did America witness its first see-it-as-it-happens national news event?
2 days after the assassination of president JFK when Lee Harvey Oswald’s was shot by Jack Ruby (Dallas, night club owner).
Who launched CNN in 1980?
Ted Turner launched CNN, the 1st live, 24 hour a day, all-news cable network
Fox News started by Roger Ailes as a conservative alternative to what they felt was a liberal CNN in what year?
1997
Mead Data Central, for example started Nexis a full tax newspaper database in the year ….
1978
What were the first two major papers to go online in 1993?
Two of the first major papers to go online this way were the San Jose Mercury News & the Chicago Tribune both of which were available on AOL in 1993
The release of the World Wide Web in _________ made navigation on the Internet easier and encourage many more newspapers to establish online editions.
1993
This type of journalism is the act of every day citizens-with a professional journalism training or experience-playing an active role in collecting, reporting, and analyzing the news.
Citizen journalism or participatory journalism
What is a whistleblower?
Whistleblower is every citizen who exposes corruption or incompetence.
In television news, what are the on-camera partners in the field called?
In television news, the on-camera reporters in the field are known as correspondents. These are the reporters who do on-location stand-ups- segments in which the reporter faces the camera with the news scene in the background.
Who is the chair of News Corporation, an international media conglomerate that owns, among many other media properties, major newspapers around the world(most significantly, the Wall Street Journal)….
Rupert Murdoch
Examples of Peg and what they mean…
Proximity - the news has something to do with where the audience member works or live
Prominence - the news related in some way to someone well known to the audience, perhaps a celebrity in the realm of entertainment, sports, or politics
