Chapter 8: Newspapers Flashcards
First regularly published newspaper
Boston News-Letter (John Campbell)
Partisan press
Political papers, pushed plan of the particular group that subsidized the paper
Penny papers compete w ______
six cent papers
Human interest stories
Stories that focus on daily trials, and triumph of humans
Yellow Journalism
Late 1800s, infant size profitable papers they cured human interest stories, crime news, large headlines, more readable copy
Investigative journalism
News reports that hunt and expose corruption
Objective journalism
Distinguishes factorial reports from opinion columns
Inverted-pyramid style
Packaging and presenting objective journalism
Interpretive journalism
Aims to explain key issues and events and place them in a broader historical or social context
Three press responsibilities
#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
Literary journalism
Can be called new journalism, adapted fictional techniques descriptive details, and settings to nonfiction material and in-depth reporting
Consensus-oriented journalism
Carries articles on local schools, social events, town government, zoning issues
Conflict-oriented journalism
Front page news is often events, issues, experiences
$8.3 B
Price of biggest newspaper merger
Underground press
Question political policies and conventional views, often radical opinions
Newsnote
Space not taken by ads
Traditional feature syndicates example
United Features
Newspaper chain
Company that owns several papers across the country
Joint-operation agreement
Keeps separate news divisions
Zenger trial
Established press freedoms
Watergate
Bob Woodward exposes Nixon, leads to his resignation
1st Online Paper
Ohios Columbus Dispatch in 1980
Adolph Ochs buys _____ in 1896 and starts modern, effective journalism
NY Times
1st Underground Paper
Village Voice in Greenwich Village, 1955
