Digital World
More Fundamentals
Fundamentals
Wild Card
100
Service over content production.
What do journalists aim to do?
100
Watchdog
What is a key task of journalism? Journalists serve as watchdog over those whose power and position most affect citizens. It may also offer voice to the voiceless. Being an independent monitor of power means “watching over the powerful few in society on behalf of the many to guard against tyranny,” Kovach and Rosenstiel write.
100
To create well-informed individuals and a well-informed society
What is the central purpose of journalism?
100
Rule of Thirds
What is a composition principle in photojournalism where key points of interest are placed at the intersection of "third lines."?
200
Engagement
What is connecting with an audience and capturing their attention?
200
Sense-making
What is an essential task of journalism? Journalists must now verify information the consumer already has or is likely to find and then help them make sense of what it means and how they might use it.
200
Authenticating
What is a central task of journalism today?
200
Mobile Smartphone
What is the primary device most audiences in 2016 use to access news?
300
Time and space
What limits defined the format of a story before digital? Before digital, the format of a story was determined by limits on space and time -- it was whatever fit onto the page or into the broadcast time slot on TV. Time and space are unlimited on the internet, so patters of information flow online are totally different.
300
News Values
What do journalists use to figure out whether or not a story is worth pursuing?
300
Gate-keeping
What is a the ability to control access to news and information? Journalism once enjoyed this role, but now no longer do.
300
Conflict
What is one of the news values?
400
Digital Disruption
What is the massive change that occurs when new digital technologies affect the value proposition of existing goods and services?
400
Functional Truth
What is the truth journalists seek? It is not the truth in the absolute, philosophical or scientific sense, but rather a pursuit of “the truths by which we can operate on a day-to-day basis.”
400
Story
What is a unit of journalism? Stories add value to a topic. Stories engage the target audience.
500
Multi-Platform Distribution
What is the method that digital news organizations use in order to distribute their content to audiences that are active on multiple social media platforms?
500
Facts
What are the raw ingredients of information? Facts are messy. They're not always durable or everlasting. Conflicting evidence sometimes makes it impossible to determine the accuracy of a relevant fact. Facts are often hidden from view (intentionally or otherwise).
500
Discipline of Verification
What is an objective method that journalists use to manage their bias?
500
Algorithm
What is a computer program used by -- among others -- social media platforms? In the social media context, the algorithm collects information about users' online behavior and produces an outcome -- usually the order in which audiences are presented information, as in a news feed.
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