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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 an SPJ journalism ethics principle:
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. He also owns the Boston Red Sox.
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 freedoms of religion, press, speech, to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances?
Talk show host that was pulled off the air following his comments about Charlie Kirk then later reinstated.
Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
Chat GPT, Gemini and Claude are this kind of AI.
What is Generative AI?
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?
Legal case decided in 1964 that makes it difficult for public figures to sue media outlets over critical coverage.
What is NYT vs Sullivan?
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?
The ship whose explosion newspapers used to help spark the Spanish-American war.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
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 cable 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?
News outlet suing the Trump Administration on First Amendment grounds over the Pentagon's new press policy.
What is the New York Times?
Media outlets that settled with Trump after he sued for defamation.
What are ABC and CBS?
The Student Press Law Center recommends writing this 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?
The elder built his fortune via a tech company and the younger bought Paramount/CBS through his company Skydance.
Who are Larry and David Ellison?
His fictionalized expose of the meatpacking industry led to Congress to regulate food production for the first time.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
A form of censorship that gives the government permission to review contents of printed materials that may prevent publication.
What is prior restraint?
Public media outlets NPR and PBS were funded via what entity partly using tax dollars.
What is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting?
Name for the void left in a community when a local news outlet closes leaving no traditional media outlet.
What is a news desert?
The ability to legally record interviews and conversations without telling the interviewee varies in each ____.
What is each U.S. state?
Billionaire owners of the Washington Post and the LA Times respectively.
Who are Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong.
In 1971, he leaked secret documents evaluating the Vietnam War, leading to a landmark press freedom case known as the Pentagon Papers.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
The Supreme Court ruled this concern overrides the TikTok's claim it has a right to operate in the United States under the First Amendment.
What is that the risk to national security from TikTok’s ties to China?
Media outlets that have NOT settled with Trump when he sued for defamation.
What are the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times?