Inventions
Machine by which text is transferred from moveable type to paper with ink.
What is the printing press?
These journalists helped expose the wrongdoing of the Nixon administration through their reporting in The Washington Post.
Who were Woodward & Bernstein?
First black-owned newspaper in the US.
What is Freedom's Journal?
This event covered the death of a prominent figure and changed the way journalists covered breaking news; wall-to-wall live news coverage.
What is the assassination of JFK?
This journalist reported on lynching's in their neighborhood in order to shed light on the lives of African-Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This invention impacted journalists by changing the way we visually document events.
What is photography?
Who is Benjamin Harris?
Newspapers that cost only a penny and made news widely available to the lower classes.
Hundreds of journalists covered this event overseas and is considered the "first televised war."
What is the Vietnam War?
This type of media helped bring about the Arab Spring when Arabs were able to voice their discontent with their governments quickly and easily; able to organize protests through this medium
What is social media?
Invention created by Samuel Morse and transmitted messages via wires.
What is the telegraph?
American newspaper editor and publisher who participated in yellow journalism.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
The newspaper that broke the scandal involving President Nixon and five burglars at the Democratic National Convention; Publisher: Katharine Graham.
What is The Washington Post?
The press helped this event get coverage allowing women to see themselves as citizens with common problems and concerns.
What is women's suffrage?
This journalist was the first black person to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast.
Who is Lester Holt?
This type of journalism comes in many forms, it changed the way people receive the news instead of just reading the news they could now watch or listen to it.
What is broadcast journalism?
This woman went undercover to expose the inhumane conditions of a mental hosptial.
Who is Nellie Bly?
The magazine where Stephen Glass worked; found that Glass had fabricated many of his stories and ruined his career choices.
What is the New Republic?
A social movement against rape culture, sexual harassments, and sexual abuse; women were speaking out about their experiences; first published in the New York Times.
What is the #metoo movement?
This journalist was well respected until it was discovered he had misrepresented his reporting during the Iraqi war.
Who is Brian Williams?
This invention has allowed journalists to publish information faster than previously though possible, allowing for a constant stream of news.
What is the internet?
This person was arrested for libel because they said something negative about the British government.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
News network that employs Christiane Amanpour; where she reports on international news in a nightly program.
What is CNN?
This country mobilized troops to "stop the murdering of citizens" in a neighboring country. They have introduced a referendum for annexation.
What is the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
This world event forced journalist to rethink how they conducted interviews with people when they could not be around them due to medical risks.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?