VOCABULARY 1
A portable device for viewing, and sometimes selling, electronic books and other text.
E-Book Reader
This type of paper was one of the worst to use in the history of man kind.
Parchment paper
This persons partner was stolen from him to edit another magazine, so it could be published 3 days before his?
Benjamin Franklin
The nations number one newspaper for business and finance?
Wall St. Journal
A term used to refer to a prominent story; it comes from placement of a news story in a broadsheet newspaper, located on the front page.
Above the fold
Novels published and sold in single chapter installments.
Serial Novels
Marilyn Monroes measurements would considered her to be what type of model in todays society?
Plus Sized Model
These people used to enscribe books in a scriptoria?
Monks
This newspaper company was said to serve "News McNuggets".
US TODAY
Each letter represents individual sounds.
Alphabet / Sound Based Alphabet
A style of sensationalistic journalism that grew out of the newspaper ciruclation battle between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hurst.
Yellow Journalism
What was the earliest form of the written language?
Pictograph
This person help to establish the rules for the English language, standardizing word usuage, grammar, punctuation, and spelling?
William Caxton
Daily Double
Which newspapers served this kind of community: African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Religious groups, LGBTQ etc.
Alternative Papers
A form of publishing in which the physical book is not printed until its ordered, or until the distibutor of the book prints additonal copies in small batched.
Print on demand
Teaser headlines used to shock, intrigue, or titilate potential buyers.
Coverlines
What were the two cultural changes in American history with the invention of the typemold and the printing press?
Standardized English language and books.
One of the most popular, and controversial programs of the golden age of radio, where two white performers played African American characters. These characters did not display African Americans people well. These white performers and the actual show were thought of as racist. What were the characters names on the show?
Amos & Andy
The most respected newspaper of the West Coast?
LA TIMES
A periodical that contains articles of lasting interest. Typically, they are targeted at a specific audience and derive income from advertising, subscriptions, and newsstand sales.
Magazine
Daily Double
This word means that a large company can use the strengths of its various divisions to successfully markert its content?
Synergy
DAILY DOUBLE
What are the 5 elements to hip hop culture?
MCing
DJing
Breakdancing/B-Boy/B-girl
Graffiti
Fashion/Style
This female proved that women could go to the same extremes as men when trying to get a story.
Nellie Bly
This newspaper covered the "Watergate Scandal".
The Washington Post
Daily Double
Legislation that allowed magazines to be mailed out nationally at a low cost. It was the key factor that in the growth of the magazine circulation in the late nineteenth century?
Postal Act of 1879