The Birth of Journalism (1400–1799)
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg made it much easier to produce books and printed information.
What is the printing press?
This type of inexpensive newspaper became popular in the 1830s and made news affordable for ordinary people.
What is the penny price?
What is the radio?
This worldwide computer network became one of the main ways people read and share news.
What is the Internet?
This famous newspaper is commonly shortened to the initials NYT.
What is the New York Times?
This German City is where Johannes Gutenberg developed his famous printing press around the 1440s.
What is Mainz?
This invention allowed messages to be sent over long distances much faster.
What is the telegraph?
This technology became an important way for Americans to watch news and events from their homes.
What is the television?
This type of journalism allows ordinary people to report and share news using blogs, social media, photos, and videos.
This annual journalism award was established in 1917 and recognizes achievements in journalism, literature, and the arts.
What is the Pilitizer Prize?
Published in 1605, this German-language newspaper is often considered one of the world's first newspapers.
What is relation aller fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen historien?
Founded in 1851, this famous American newspaper became known for its coverage of national and international news.
What is The New York Times?
This 1970s investigation by The Washington Post helped expose political wrongdoing involved President Richard Nixon.
What is the Watergate scandal.
This social media platform became especially important for sharing short posts and breaking news in real time.
What is Twitter (now X)?
This famous newspaper slogan is "All the News That's Fit to _____."
What is "Print"?
Published in Boston in 1690, this newspaper is considered the first newspaper published in the American colonies, although it was shut down after only one issue.
What is Publick Occurrences?
This sensational style of journalism became especially associated with Joseph Pulitzer and Willian Randolph Hearst.
What is yellow journalism?
These two Washington Post reporters played a major role in investigating the Watergate scandal.
Who are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
This technology allows journalists and ordinary people to record and share breaking news almost instantly.
What are smartphones?
This journalist and publisher founded the New-York Tribune in 1841.
Who is Horace Greeley?
This newspaper, founded in 1704, is considered the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.
What is the Boston News-Letter?
This famous journalist used investigative reporting to expose poor conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry in his 1906 book The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This journalist became famous for her investigative reporting and for creating the newspaper column "The Other Side of the Story."
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This term describes false or misleading information that is intentionally created or spread to deceive people.
What is disinformation?
This journalist became famous for reporting from the front lines during the Crimean War and helped establish modern war correspondence.
Who is William Howard Russell?