Electronic Journalism

Question 1

According to an online poll on Time in 2009, who is the most trusted news reporter in America?

Answer 1

Jon Stewart

Question 2

What percent of our news do we get from TV, newspapers and weeklies, and online and radio?

Answer 2

1/2 = mostly TV
1/4 = newspapers and weeklies
1/4 = online and radio

Question 3

1. What are newsreels?
2. Where did the newsreels start?
3. What were the used for in WWII

Answer 3

1. Short films, usually around 10 minutes that gave news.
2. France
3. Pro-war propaganda

Question 4

When/ what was the first regular radio coverage?

Answer 4

Frank Conrad covering the presidential election in 1920

Question 5

What happened between newspapers and radio?

Answer 5

At first newspapers didn’t see them as a threat, but then they saw them as a foe.

Question 6

What was the Baltimore Agreement of 1933?

Answer 6

Radio could only have five minute news casts twice daily, and they could not be before 9:30am or 9:00pm

Question 7

How did radio find a loophole in the Baltimore Agreement of 1933?

Answer 7

They would comment on the news instead of giving it.

Question 8

When did TV replace the radio?

Answer 8

1950s

Question 9

What happened to the radio when TV replaced it?

Answer 9

It became all music

Question 10

What did KFAX in San Francisco do?

Answer 10

Attempted all news but it failed and became religious

Question 11

Who was Ed Murrow? What is he known for? Who did he challenge?

Answer 11

1. A popular radio host who moved to TV in the 1950s.
2. Known for documentaries
3. He challenged McCarty (who had a “list” of communists)

Question 12

Who started CNN and when?

Answer 12

1980 by Ted Turner

Question 13

CNN was the first ______. It was also called the “Chicken Noodle Network” because _____.

Answer 13

1. All news TV station

2. it was low budget

Question 14

When was Fox News created and by whom?

Answer 14

1997 by Roger Ailes

Question 15

1. Why was Fox News created?
2. Who helped fund it?
3. What helped Fox take off?

Answer 15

1. People felt CNN was too
   liberal
2. Rupert Murdoch funded it
3. Clinton vs Monica. Fox had a field day with this.

Question 16

What are two examples of non-traditional news sources?

Answer 16

Al Jazeera and BBC

Question 17

What are some examples of non-journalism sites?

Answer 17

1. Blogs
2. News sources that publish themselves
3. NBA.com

Question 18

What is the news cycle like in the digital age?

Answer 18

1. 24-hour coverage
2. Scoop themselves
3. Embargos (would NOT scoop themselves)

Question 19

In the Nixon vs Kennedy debate what happened?

Answer 19

○ Kennedy came in polished. Nixon did not.
○ People who watched said Kennedy won.
○ People who listened said Nixon won.

Question 20

What are anchors?

Answer 20

reads the news to you, face of news network

Question 21

What are correspondents?

Answer 21

Reporters who go and get the stories

Question 22

What are producers?

Answer 22

In charge of stacking the show and writing much of the material

Question 23

What are the consultants?

Answer 23

Decides whether or not the audience likes you, can fire you

Question 24

What are pundits

Answer 24

Take a specific political stance and stick with it

Question 25

What are digital journalists

Answer 25

Bring in young people to do things digitally

Question 26

What made the Drudge Report Famous?

Answer 26

He published the first rumors (w/out confirmation) of Clinton and Monica