MCOM72 Week 2

Question 1

Penny papers

Answer 1

reported local news and crime

Question 1

Ghost newspaper

Answer 1

devoid of actual news and carries content from other newspaper

Question 2

Wire Services

Answer 2

relayed news through telegraph and then radio

Question 3

Yellow journalism

Answer 3

carried more exciting stories and readable copy, had fake news sometimes, dramatic stories

Question 4

Two types of journalism in late 19th century

Answer 4

story model or just the facts model

Question 5

Adolph Ochs and the New York Times

Answer 5

targeted educated readers, not yellow journalism

Question 6

Objective Journalism

Answer 6

factual reports not opinion

Question 7

Inverted pyramid style

Answer 7

story form for objective reporting

Question 8

literary journalism

Answer 8

fictional techniques to nonfiction material

Question 9

First color paper

Answer 9

USA Today

Question 10

first paper to go online

Answer 10

Columbus dispatch

Question 11

consensus oriented journalism

Answer 11

stories on local schools, town government, and property crimes

Question 12

conflict oriented journalism

Answer 12

events and issues that deviate from social norms

Question 13

why decline of black papers

Answer 13

loss of support from advertisers from civil rights, economic decline

Question 14

first black newspaper

Answer 14

Freedom’s Journal

Question 15

Have ads on news paper shrunk over the past two decades

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What do papers rely on to supplement coverage

Answer 16

Wire services

Question 17

When did decline of newspaper reading start

Answer 17

great depression bc of rise of radio

Question 18

loss of newspaper associated with

Answer 18

low voter turnout and political corruption