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The name for an original source of information, such as a government document or direct quote.
What is a primary source?
Which isn't a journalism ethics principle as outlined by SPJ?
a. Seek Truth and Report It
b. Minimize Harm
c. Record Everything
d. Act Independently
e. Be Accountable and Transparent
What is c. Record Everything
He owns the Boston Globe and now Boston Magazine.
Who is billionaire John Henry?
They followed the money and brought down a U.S. president.
Who are Woodward and Bernstein of the Washington Post?
The five freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment.
What are the right to freedom of religion, press, speech, peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances
What movie chronicles the movement that brought down movie producer Harvey Weinstein?
What is "She Said?"
The White House banned what wire service from events over President Trump's name change to Gulf of America from Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Associated Press?
What was the name of the ship whose explosion newspapers used to help spark the Spanish-American war?
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Laws enacted by President John Adams that made it illegal to criticize the government and easier to detain citizens.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
William Randolph Hearst's biggest rival.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
She went undercover in a mental health facility (then called asylums) to expose abuse and wrongdoing.
Who is Nelly Bly?
The university suing the Trump administration on First Amendment grounds after the White House froze billions in federal funds to the institution?
What is Harvard University?
These actors played Woodward and Bernstein in 1974's All the President's Men.
Who are Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman?
Public media outlets NPR and PBS are funded via what entity partly using tax dollars?
What is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
Which U.S. Senator did Edward R. Murrow criticize in a groundbreaking broadcast editorial in the 1950s?
Who is Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy?
Legal term under the the New York Times vs. Sullivan Supreme Court ruling that public figures must prove in order to successfully sue media outlets for defamation.
What is "actual malice?"
Built a media empire including the most-watched news network in the United States today.
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
Black journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching movement in the 1890s, fought for women's suffrage and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
A form of censorship that gives the government permission to review contents of printed materials that may prevent publication.
What is prior restraint?
What is music journalist Lester Bangs' journalistic advice in the movie 'Almost Famous?'
What is: "Do Not Make Friends With The Rock Stars."
International government-funded audio entity the Trump administration tried to shutter but was halted by a federal court from doing so?
What is Voice of America?
What does the Student Press Law Center recommend writing on your arm in preparation for covering a protest?
An emergency contact number.
A law enacted in 1917 that makes it illegal to "collect, record, publish, or communicate information that might be useful to the enemy."
What is the Espionage Act?
Pioneering (and accidental) female media mogul who rose to power in the 1970s to become owner of the Washington Post.
Who is Katherine Graham?
His fictionalized expose of the meatpacking industry led to Congress to regulate food production for the first time.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Which former vice presidential candidate lost her second attempt to sue the New York Times for defamation this April?
Who is Sarah Palin?
What movie chronicles the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning series that exposed sexual abuse in the Catholic church?
What is "Spotlight?"
Broadcast network that Presdient Trump sued because of its editing of an interview with 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
What is CBS?
The first broadcasting "network" that united "affiliates" and gave birth to national news over the airwaves was called what and formed when?
What is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) formed in 1924 by RCA?
The legal ability to record interviews and conversations varies in each ____?
U.S. state.
Billionaire owners of newspapers that decided not to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024.
Who are Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong.
In 1971, he leaked information on secret documents evaluating the Vietnam War, leading to a landmark press freedom case known as the Pentagon Papers.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
Choose one: percentage of U.S. adults in 2024 that, according to Pew Research survey, say press freedom is extremely or very important to society.
a) 73% b) 12% c) 55% d) 90%
a) 73%
What is 'Rosebud?'
The childhood sled of the mogul character modeled after William Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane.
Who ran the White House press pool before the Trump administration took control?
What is the White House Correspondents Association?