Chapter 8: Newspapers

Question 1

First regularly published newspaper

Answer 1

Boston News-Letter (John Campbell)

Question 2

Partisan press

Answer 2

Political papers, pushed plan of the particular group that subsidized the paper

Question 3

Penny papers compete w ______

Answer 3

six cent papers

Question 4

Human interest stories

Answer 4

Stories that focus on daily trials, and triumph of humans

Question 5

Yellow Journalism

Answer 5

Late 1800s, infant size profitable papers they cured human interest stories, crime news, large headlines, more readable copy

Question 6

Investigative journalism

Answer 6

News reports that hunt and expose corruption

Question 7

Objective journalism

Answer 7

Distinguishes factorial reports from opinion columns

Question 8

Inverted-pyramid style

Answer 8

Packaging and presenting objective journalism

Question 9

Interpretive journalism

Answer 9

Aims to explain key issues and events and place them in a broader historical or social context

Question 10

Three press responsibilities

Answer 10

#1 to make correct record
#2 make a running analysis of it
#3 on the basis of both, to suggest plans

According to Walter Lippman

Question 11

Literary journalism

Answer 11

Can be called new journalism, adapted fictional techniques descriptive details, and settings to nonfiction material and in-depth reporting

Question 12

Consensus-oriented journalism

Answer 12

Carries articles on local schools, social events, town government, zoning issues

Question 13

Conflict-oriented journalism

Answer 13

Front page news is often events, issues, experiences

Question 14

$8.3 B

Answer 14

Price of biggest newspaper merger

Question 15

Underground press

Answer 15

Question political policies and conventional views, often radical opinions

Question 16

Newsnote

Answer 16

Space not taken by ads

Question 17

Traditional feature syndicates example

Answer 17

United Features

Question 18

Newspaper chain

Answer 18

Company that owns several papers across the country

Question 19

Joint-operation agreement

Answer 19

Keeps separate news divisions

Question 20

Zenger trial

Answer 20

Established press freedoms

Question 21

Watergate

Answer 21

Bob Woodward exposes Nixon, leads to his resignation

Question 22

1st Online Paper

Answer 22

Ohios Columbus Dispatch in 1980

Question 23

Adolph Ochs buys _____ in 1896 and starts modern, effective journalism

Answer 23

NY Times

Question 24

1st Underground Paper

Answer 24

Village Voice in Greenwich Village, 1955

Question 25

Catholic Worker

Answer 25

Dorothy Day cofounded the organization that did this paper