Early Journalists
Modern Journalists
First Amendment Rights
Vocabulary
Journalists Technology
100
This man invented the first ever printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
100
This piece of technology is used to capture or film action in motion.
What is a video camera?
100
These are the words you can't say as a journalists. For saying these things your paper may be edited or declined.
What is defamatory language?
100
This word means to provide an interesting story.
What is an entertaining story?
100
Journalists today have many different ways to get a good story due to current technology. What piece of technology helps journalists air the news.
What is a television?
200
What is the role of a town crier?
Town criers delivered news by foot and gathered the town's people to yell out the news so everyone could hear.
200
What is the role of a modern journalists?
Modern journalists must deliver unbiased news very quickly without using defamatory language.
200
When you go t school you still keep your first amendment rights! what person can we thank for this?
Who is Tinker and the Case of Tinker vs. Des Moines, 1969?
200
What is the role of a political watch dog?
Political watch dogs monitor the government activities and report indiscretions.
200
Why is the computer so important to a modern journalists?
Computers are important to a modern journalists because they help reporters access information that they couldn't get otherwise. Computers also save important documents.
300
How can a town crier relate to a game of telephone?
A town crier passed on his news from person to person and sometime the message got mixed up or misinterpreted. In a game of telephone you start with a sentence and at the end it is almost never the same as what it started as.
300
How does the first amendment rights relate to school journalism?
The first amendment rights affect how we can freely express ourselves in school. For example we can wear black arm bands as we peacefully protest.
300
What is the relationship between the first amendment rights and violence, obscene material to minors, saying libelous statements, using fighting words, copy right infringement, and words that will lead to lawless action.
All of those things are not protected under the First Amendment.
300
How are modern journalists and early journalist alike?
Early journalists and modern journalists both report the news to people by verbally telling them and/or printing it on paper.
300
Journalists use the internet and we also use the internet. What differences is there between how professional journalist and ourselves use the internet.
We may use the internet to play games or look on you tube, while journalists probably don't do these things because they are too bust working on news stories.
400
Early journalists passed things on from person to person, today we do this by playing this game.
What is the game of telephone?
400
How is school journalism and professional journalism different?
In school we use the internet and our notes as our main resources, while professional journalists go to the actual scene to get there resources in first person.
400
Why do you think Tinker could peacefully protest by wearing a black arm band, but we can't wear bandannas as head bands?
Honestly I don't see anything wrong with it because it doesn't mean anything, but some of the colors represent various gangs.
400
Compare a political watch dog to an actual watch dog.
Political watch dogs monitor the government and report any problems. Actual watch dogs monitor your house and bark if there is any problems.
400
Compare and contrast a computer to a smart phone.
A computer and smart phone can both have access to the internet and e-mail. The difference is that you can not make calls on your computer, and you may not have access to everything a computer does on your phone.
500
The printing press opened doors to many new inventions. What would be two differences currently happening in real life if the printing press never existed.
One difference is that we would still be making copies by hand writing everything. Another difference would be, books would cost a lot of money so a lot of us would be illiterate.
500
What is a real life situation of a political watch dogs.
Political watch dogs watch to make sure governor Chris Christie spends money wisely.
500
What is a real life situation of pushing the luck of the first amendment rights.
One example is when Kuhlmeier wrote an inappropriate paper and said he could say what he wanted to say, but that is wrong because it went against all school policies.
500
What is a real life example of an accurate record keeper.
One example is when you write the date on top of your paper, so you can go back to it another day and know the date you completed a certain task.
500
What is a real life example of how journalists are improving technology to make their job safer?
One thing journalists are working on is building a type of robot to go to the place of action, so if it is dangerous no one will get hurt.
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