Lawful J-Walking
Who Owns That?
In The Gutter
Their Name in Lights
What’s New?
100
The Society of Professional Journalists helps promote and defend this amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
100
A viewership of 21 million household is nothing to laugh about. This news company achieves this reach with 23 local TV stations.
What is Gannett?
100
CS stand for this in Adobe CS.
What is Creative Suite?
100
President Obama and Governor Romney walked all over this thoughtful but soft spoken PBS journalist during the first 2012 presidential debate.
Who is Jim Lehrer?
100
A new pet rarely makes the news, but in the case of this Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, his new dog is raising ethical questions.
Who is Michael Vick?
200
This conservative is currently serving as the United States Supreme Court chief justice.
Who is John Roberts?
200
This company recently laid off hundreds of employees at various papers, including the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Syracuse Post-Standard and the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
What is Advance?
200
The number of points in an inch.
What is 72?
200
These two journalists were instrumental in exposing the details of the Watergate scandal, eventually causing former President Nixon to resign.
Who are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?
200
The Nobel Peace Prize was recently awarded to this organization for its efforts to promote peace and democracy. The decision is a controversial one considering the political and economic unrest surrounding the organization.
What is the European Union (EU)?
300
This 1971 court case in essence allowed the Pentagon Papers to be published without risk of government censorship.
What is Times v. U.S.?
300
This company developed their network jingle using the notes G-E-C, from its then corporate owner's initials.
What is NBC?
300
The part of a page layout that is cut off after printing.
What is bleed?
300
Arizona State University's journalism school is named after this late broadcast journalism icon, often referred to as the most trusted man in America.
Who is Walter Cronkite?
300
If you were watching on YouTube, you could see Felix Baumgartner’s daring skydiving mission broadcast live. Chuck Yeager was the first to break this record in a jet, but Baumgartner was the first human to do it without the aid of a vehicle.
What is break the sound barrier?
400
A public official suing for defamation must prove comments were made with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard, under this actual malice standard.
What is the New York Times standard?
400
When NBC Radio split into NBC Red and NBC Blue, NBC Red became what is now NBC, and NBC Blue eventually became this modern-day television network.
What is ABC?
400
The process of adjusting the space between two characters.
What is kerning?
400
With a new talk show, this journalist is channeling Oprah and showing off her softer side. YOLO!
Who is Katie Couric?
400
Tens of thousands rallied on Sunday to show support for a 14-year-old girl from this nation who was shot and critically wounded by the Taliban because she advocated for girls’ education.
What is Pakistan?
500
This 1868 case resulted in the first obscenity rule; if one sentence was found obscene then the entire work was considered to be obscene.
What is Regina v. Hicklin (Hicklin acceptable)?
500
The Daily News-Record got its current name from a 1913 merger between these two papers.
What are the Harrisonburg Daily News and the Rockingham Daily Record?
500
The combination of these two letters evolved into what is now an ampersand.
What are "e" and "t"?
500
JMU SPJ will be Skyping with this Pulitzer-winning feature writer, giving us a "window" into her reporting style.
Who is Lane DeGregory?
500
This influential former senator recently died at 82. His impact can be seen in his key role in many Supreme Court nominations, and his surprising switch from the GOP to the Democratic party in 2009.
Who is Arlen Specter?
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