Final Quiz Flashcards

1
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The desire for news goes back to preliterate culture, people were most concerned about events that impacted:

A

Their daily lives

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2
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Newspapers did not begin until:

A

The 16th century

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3
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After __________ the audience and need for news was changing

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The American Civil War

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4
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Hearst and Pulitzer saw a chance to develop newspapers with large circulations. They needed to avoid:

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Obvious political partisanship

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5
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Growth of vastly circulating newspapers ushered in an:

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era of big news

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6
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The dramatic decrease of audiences for big news was not Americans losing interest in being informed; Instead:

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The shift in exposure to online news sources

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7
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Changes in the need for news

A
  1. Want more efficient access to news

2. People want a different kind of news

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8
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People prefer news stories that are:

A

Local

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9
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Digital media give people ___ access to news.

A

Quicker

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10
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A technique that journalists use to generate leads and information

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Crowdsourcing

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The closer an event is to us, the more we find it ___

A

Interesting

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12
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The ability to personalize new stories to satisfy the particular needs of each niche audience.

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Hyper-local

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13
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Less than ___% of users scroll down to the end of a news article

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10

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14
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Conceptualizes news as the daily flow of information from expert journalists to the general public for the purposes of educating the population so they can make well-informed choices in a democracy

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Political Philosophy Perspective

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Encapsulates what journalists believe to be the purpose and nature of news and presents this encapsulation as a template for what news should be

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Professional Journalistic Perspective

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16
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Event has to be current to be considered news

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Timeliness

17
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The magnitude of the consequences of an event

Example: A shooting resulting in the death of 5 people is more newsworthy than 1 death

A

Significance

18
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How close the event is to the news audience.

Example: A shooting that takes place in a news outlets hometown is more newsworthy

19
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How well-known people and institutions are in the event being considered as newsworthy.
Example: If the mayor of a town is shot

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Prominence

20
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The degree to which the parties in an event disagree

21
Q

How strongly the event would appeal to human emotions

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Human Interest

22
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The degree to which an event is out of the ordinary

Example: Man bites dog

23
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Focuses on how news organizations operate as businesses

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Economic Perspective

24
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What are two criticisms of the economic perspective

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  1. guided by profit more than education

2. tends to change news content in a harmful way

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Related to the economic perspective, it beings with the premise that news organizations are businesses that need to generate enough revenue to stay in business, so they must attract a large audience
Marketing Perspective
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People seek out information that conforms to their existing belief systems and avoids information that challenges their beliefs
Selective Exposure
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Implies a judgement that a person makes that there is something wrong with the news
Fake News
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3 general principles of professionalism
Knowledge Organization Autonomy
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A cognitive base and particular skills
Knowledge
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How a profession may require membership of professional associations that legitimately represent the profession...how practitioners must be able to earn a living from engaging full time in their profession, and formal codes of ethics
Organization
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How professionals are able to do their jobs with a great deal of individual discretion and that external influence over the work process itself should be nonexistent
Autonomy
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4 principles of an ethical journalist
1. Seek truth and report it 2. Minimize harm 3. Act independently 4. Accountable and transparent