Newspapers & Magazines Flashcards
What late celebrity has appeared on the cover of People magazine 58 times, more than anyone else in history by a wide margin?
Princess Diana
From 1893 to 1895, what future literary great was the first woman editor of The Hesperian, the student newspaper of the University of Nebraska?
Willa Cather
In 1999, Time chose for its “Person of the Century” someone who had never been named a Person of the Year during the century. Whom did they select?
Albert Einstein
In 1912 Chicago, Harriet Monroe founded a magazine for which she would serve as editor until her death in 1936, and that is published still today (thanks in part to a $200 million bequest in 2002 from philanthropist Ruth Lilly). What is that magazine, named after the literature it features monthly?
Poetry
The present use of the word “cartoon,” as a humorous drawing, is said to have originated with what English comic weekly magazine, which was founded in 1841 and named after the irascible figure in a famous puppet show?
Punch
In 1955 this monthly founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace was forced to accept advertising for the first time.
Reader’s Digest
Follow baseball’s Indians in this paper with the highest circulation of any Ohio newspaper.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
What author founded National Review magazine in 1955?
William F. Buckley’s aim was to strengthen the intellectual basis for American conservatism, back when that was actually a thing.
In 2008 this former editor of Vanity Fair & The New Yorker launched The Daily Beast.
Tina Brown
Name the writer, social critic, and two-time Pulitzer-winner who cofounded the alternative newsweekly The Village Voice and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York in 1969.
Norman Mailer
This metroplex city’s Star was founded in 1906 and merged with The Telegram three years later.
Fort Worth
This model holds the record for most appearances on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition.
Elle Macpherson
He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore “false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity.”
Hercule Poirot
What does The Village Voice call its annual music critics’ poll, a spoonerism for two venerable genres of American music?
Pazz and Jop
Originally published on September 21, 1897, this is now the most-reprinted editorial of all time, republished every winter. Named for the first seven words of its second paragraph, what is it commonly called?
“Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus”
What newspaper became an early digital pioneer in 1993 — the same year as the invention of the graphical web browser! — by starting a dial-up internet service provider called Nando.net, a domain named after an acronym for the paper?
Raleigh News & Observer
Though it wouldn’t pass newspaper ethical muster nowadays, this beloved columnist frequently inserted into his columns a fictional character named Slats Grobnik, an ethnic Chicago everyman and quasi-alter ego. What columnist did this?
Mike Royko
In general, American newspaper crosswords are laid out in a symmetrical square grid. While the Sunday crossword is often much bigger, what odd number of squares makes up the usual height and width of the grid for the daily crossword?
15 x 15
What mustachioed Egyptian actor lent his name to a long-running ghostwritten syndicated bridge column?
Omar Sharif
In North America, there is a four-character shorthand that is used to indicate the end of a story — two nonnumeric characters fore and aft of a two-digit number. Not coincidentally, this is also the name of the series finale of The Wire. What is this four-character code?
-30-
While it has over a dozen titles in its portfolio, the publishing company American Media, Inc., has been newsworthy in 2018 for what weekly, the title with which American Media was originally affiliated when the company was founded?
National Enquirer
NYU’s J-school chose the 100 Outstanding U.S. Journalists of the Last 100 Years; this Post-man is alphabetically last.
Bob Woodward
What university did publisher Joseph Pulitzer choose to hand out the journalism awards named for him?
Columbia University
The title of a series of articles written in 1971 by Don Hoefler, a correspondent for the trade newspaper Electronic News, is the source for what geographic name?
Silicon Valley
