Events Before 2000
This American event transformed traditional news cycles into their current configuration through a rather lukewarm car chase.
What is the OJ Simpson Trial?
This war saw the full unveiling of the US doctrine of shock and awe, also known as rapid dominance.
What is the Iraq War?
Founded by media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 1996, this network recently lost a lawsuit costing them 787.5M.
What is Fox News?
This news anchor has been mixing humor with investigative reporting every Sunday for the last nine years.
Who is John Oliver?
This news presentation format is sometimes referred to as "soft news."
What is infotainment?
A break-in into the Democratic party's offices at this famous hotel led to the end of one president's career.
What is Watergate?
Sweeping across multiple nations, this wave of uprisings began in Tunisia in the 2010s.
What is the Arab Spring?
This Canadian specialty channel is known for being the first and largest First Nations network.
What is the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)?
This prominent news anchor from the Vanderbilt family is the only LGBT individual to moderate a presidential debate.
Who is Anderson Cooper?
The technical term for the editorial function of assigning staff and coordinating coverage.
What is a news desk?
This war's impact on the American collective psyche was so damaging that produced a "syndrome," whereby populations are extremely averse to military involvement.
What is the Vietnam War?
Lasting only 80 seconds, this earthquake extremely damaged its home country's infrastructure to an unprecedented degree, and is currently the fifth deadliest of all time
This British news network, originally called the Royal Television Society, is actually owned by the Comcast Corporation.
What is Sky News?
The nephew of Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur, this internet commentator has become a strong left wing political voice.
Who is Hasan Piker?
This original term for the popular "man-on-the-street" reporting format refers to what the format originally held as its core.
What is vox populi?
Running from 1981 to 1986, this arms scandal involved a group of guerillas in Nicaragua.
What is Iran-Contra?
This event has led to the displacement of over 7.71M people in South America since 2015, at least.
What is the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis?
What is NBC?
This Iranian-American journalist has received both praise and criticism for her reporting on the Bosnian War, among many other conflicts.
Who is Christiane Amanpour?
This term refers to a metaphor of priorities in news information, from newsworthy facts, to details, to background facts.
What is the inverted pyramid?
This prolonged siege was covered by world media for its entire duration, which lasted for over 46 months, between 1992 and 1996.
What is the Siege of Sarajevo?
What is the Jammu-Kashmir lockdown?
This network has been subject to a great deal of criticism for its frequent broadcasts of disinformation, propaganda and conspiracy theories, and was fined by Britain's Ofcom.
What is RT (or Russia Today)?
With a career spanning 64 years, this reporter was known for her interviews, including ones with Richard Nixon, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Fidel Castro.
Who was Barbara Walters?
This computer virus, allegedly developed by the US and Israeli governments, is credited with heavy damage to Iran's nuclear development.
What is Stuxnet?