Communications Transformations
Skeptical Way of Knowing
Types of Journalism
Types of Stories
Examples/Anecdotes
100
Johannes Gutenberg invented this transformation
What is the printing press/movable type
100
The first step in the process, it involves looking at what kind of journalism is produced.
What is evaluating content?
100
This is a traditional approach that features a multiplicity of sources, depth, neutrality and skepticism
What is the journalism of verification?
100
In this type of reporting, journalists try to examine the statements of politicians or public figures.
What is a fact-checking or authentication story?
100
In the first chapter of the book, Kovach and Rosenstiel look at this incident through the eyes of today's media.
What is Three-mile Island?
200
A key effect of this transformation was the creation of a nationalized, unified audience.
What is the television?
200
Examining the completeness of news includes the inclusion of these six questions.
What are the five Ws and one H?
200
Though not overt, this type of journalism content may show evidence of support, including funding, from particular organizations and may have repetitive or cherry-picked conclusions.
What is interest-group journalism?
200
A type of reporting in which the reporter examines more than the simple facts, trying to decide what the facts mean.
What is sense-making news?
200
A Wall Street Journal article tried to make sense of the fanfare for the safe return of this soldier.
Who is Jessica Lynch?
300
Following speech, the second oldest of the communication transformations.
What are cave drawings/paintings?
300
Kovach and Rosenstiel suggest readers be skeptical of this type of source unless it is clear why they were used in this manner.
What is an anonymous source?
300
Live reporting, filling time, live interviews and passive reporters/anchors.
What is the journalism of assertion?
300
Holding powerful institutions accountable
What is watchdog journalism?
300
This talk show host pointed out the "repetition of loaded language" facet of sanitized news when discussing how terrorists were "emboldened."
Who is Jon Stewart?
400
Because of the development of this, communication formed permanence, mobility, and complexity.
What is writing?
400
The level of meaning the word suggests.
What is a connotation?
400
This type of journalism features many arguments and cherry-picked facts. It relies heavily on anecdotes, and can be recognized often when the anchor appears to take a side, give the last word to a particular side, or have guests with whom they agree.
What is the journalism of affirmation?
400
Basic reporting, similar to the Associated Press, in which the facts or events are discussed in a neutral manner.
What is fact-based reporting?
400
The coverage of this disaster showed how quickly misinformation can spread when journalists are kept from the scene of breaking news.
What is the Sago mine disaster?
500
This transformation was partly responsible for the evolution of news into a fact-based, politically neutral product.
What is the telegraph?
500
In addition to the five Ws and one H, Kovach and Rosenstiel suggest the inclusion of these when evaluating completeness.
What are the questions the story raises?
500
In the journalism of affirmation, participants often resort to these, in which a journalist or interview subject attack the speaker instead of his or her argument.
What is an ad hominem attack?
500
An effort to "establish new understanding about broader phenomena"
What is new-paradigm reporting
500
The MSNBC commentator who said "Republicans want you DEAD!"
Who is Ed Schultz?
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