The Birth of Journalism (1400-1799)
Around 1450, this inventor developed a movable type printing press in Europe.
Who is Johannes Gutenburg?
This invention let reporters send news quickly ver long distances.
What is the telegraph?
In the 1920s, people began hearing news broadcast into their homes through this device.
What is the radio?
In the 2000s, more people began using this to read online.
What is the internet?
These questions help a reporter gather the basic facts: who, what, when, where, why, and how.
What are the 5 Ws and H?
Before printed news became common, people shared reports through these letters written by hand.
What are the handwritten newsletters?
Reporters who went to battlefields to cover the Civil War were called these.
Who are war correspondents?
By the 1950s, this medium let people watch news reports as well as hear them
What is television?
Platforms like instagram and Tiktok let news spread quickly through posts and videos.
Whats is social media?
This line tells readers who wrote a story.
What is a byline?
This single sheet, printed on one side, could quickly spread news or public announcements.
What is a broadside?
This technology helped document what the Civil War looked like.
What is photography?
Launched in 1980, this network brough viewers news 24 hours a day.
What is CNN?
People can listen to news stories and interviews in episodes of this digital audio format.
What is a podcast?
This way of writing puts the most important information first, followed by less important details.
What is the inverted pyramid?
This writer used his 1776 pamphlet to argue for American independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This journalist went undercover in a mental institution in 1887 to expose its conditions.
Who is Nellie Bly?
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein helped investigate this 1970s political scandal.
What is Watergate?
When ordinary people record and share news from where it happens, it is called this.
What is citizen journalism?
Naming where a fact or quote came from is called this.
What is attribution?
Ratified in 1791, this amendment protected freedom of the press in the United States.
What is the First Amendment?
This journalist began reporting on lynching in 1892 and fought to expose racial injustice.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This journalist reported from London by radio during World War II, describing the bombings as they happened.
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
Journalists must check whether a realistic image, video, or voice recording was faked using AI. This is the name for that type of fake.
What is a deepfake?
This is a person who gives a reporter information but is not identified by name in the story.
What is an anonymous source?