First in Print
Published in 1690, this paper was the first ever in the American Colonies.
What is Publick Occurrences?
A false statement written about someone
What is Libel?
Founded in 1851 by Henry Raymond, this world famous newspaper now owns the rights to Wordle.
What is The New York Times?
Dr. Lee Deforest innovated the vacuum tube and made this technology possible.
What is the radio?
What are People skills and Language skills?
Published by John Campbell in 1704, this paper was the first continuously published in America.
What is The Boston News Letter?
Newspapers in colonial America were charged with this crime when they criticized the government.
What is sedition?
She was the first woman to cover Congress as a journalist.
Who was Jane Grey Swisshelm?
This decade saw the first TV newscast.
1940s
In pre-revolution America, newspapers called this were affiliated with certain political parties.
What is a partisan press?
The Student's Gazette, the first student newspaper in America, was published in this year and in this place.
What is 1777 at Friends Latin School in Philadelphia, PA
A journalistic movement involving searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded way.
What is Muckraking?
Who is Nellie Bly?
A radio host that says sensational things to get attention rather
What is a Shock Jock?
This guarantees the freedom of the press in the USA.
What is the First Amendment to the Constitution?
Named for its famously low cost, this form of newspaper changed the industry by using advertisers as a revenue source.
What is the Penny Press?
Unethical, irresponsible brand of journalism involving hoaxes, altered photos, fraud, and sensationalist headlines.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This conflict began (in part) because yellow journalists embellished the truth and jumped to conclusions.
The first daily radio broadcast in America happened in this year.
What is 1920?
The government body has jurisdiction over radio and television.
What is the FCC?
This African-American newspaper was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott, whose parents had been slaves.
What is The Defender?
A resurgence (kind of) of yellow journalism on TV, involving daytime talk shows and entertainment gossip.
The Zenger Trial of 1735 established the principle of libel law that "this is not libel"
What is Truth?
What is the Vietnam War?
The greatest innovation to media and news in the 20th century.
What is the internet?