The Birth of Journalism
who invented the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
This affordable style of newspaper revolutionized the 1830s by selling for just a single penny per issue.
What is the penny press?
Who is the Pulitzer Prize named after?
Joseph Pulitzer
What is the name of the audio format that became popular in 2004 after it got its own ITunes section?
Podcasts
Which amendment to the United States Constitution explicitly protects freedom of the press?
The First Admendment
In 1704, The Boston News-Letter became the first continuously published newspaper in these overseas lands ruled by Great Britain.
The American Colonies
This former slave and abolitionist launched the influential anti-slavery newspaper The North Star in 1847.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What news publication did Stephen Glass work for?
The New Republic
What tool did Google launch in 2002 that made news stories far more accessible?
Google News
This term was used to describe early 20th-century investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business and government.
Muckrakers
Published in 1665, this publication is recognized as the first official journal of record and the oldest surviving English newspaper.
What is The London Gazette
This late-18th/early-19th-century practice involved political parties directly funding and controlling partisan newspapers to promote their platform.
What is the party press (or partisan press)?
What was the name of sensational reporting that ignored facts?
Yellow Journalism
What format of news severely struggled due to online news?
Newspapers
Published starting in 1704 by John Campbell, what was the title of the first continuously published newspaper in the American colonies?
The Boston News-Letter
The world's first printed newspaper is widely considered to be the?
Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien(Account of All Principal and Memorable Events)
Founded in 1848 by New York publishers, this cooperative news-gathering organization shared telegraph costs to transmit news quickly across the country.
What is the Associated Press (AP)?
What was the name of the story that exposed meat packing conditions to the American public?
The Jungle
What news source published the story The Giant Pool of Money, in 2008, explaining the Great Recession?
NPR
Which two fiercely competitive newspaper publishers engaged in sensationalized "yellow journalism" that helped fuel public support for the Spanish-American War?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
This English author and activist wrote the 1644 polemic Areopagitica, which strongly opposed licensing and censorship of the press.
-Who was John Milton?
This critical 1844 invention by Samuel Morse transformed journalism by allowing instantaneous news transmission across long distances for the first time.
What is the telegraph?
In 1908, what university became the world's established dedicated school of journalism?
The University of Missouri
What was the name of the story from 2008 that investigated America’s actions during the Iraq War?
The Dark Side
Who's the most known journalist in the Kansas area?
Bill Curtis