Books
Newspapers
Magazines
Film
Radio
100

This market giant is helping small publishers through their use of customer data collection.

What is Amazon?

100

These are stories designed to gain impressions.

What is clickbait?

100

This type of magazine carries stories that focus on people in specific professions.

What are trade (or professional, or business) magazines?

100

This perspective is what leads filmmakers to reduce risk taking and produce formulaic movies.

What is the Blockbuster Mentality?

100

This type of radio is very structured and formulaic. It serves a highly specialized, specific audience attracted to a particular type of music.

What is format radio?

200

During the Great Depression, Allen Lane invented what popular book format?

What is the paperback book?

200

This term is used to describe papers like The Sun, which were cheap to print, garnered a large audience, and brought advertisers to the medium.

What are Penny Press (or Penny Papers)?
200

This is the practice of printing multiple versions of a magazine that are specialized to certain geographic or demographic interests.

What are split runs?

200

This court decision forced large studios to sell off their theaters, creating competition for a declining audience.

What is the Paramount Decision?

200

This invention by Reginald Fessenden made wireless voice transmission possible.

What is the liquid barretter?

300

When someone in authority limits publication or access to a book, that book is...

What is Censored?

300

These are single sheet announcements of events, usually imported from England to colonies.

What are Broadsides (or Broadsheets)?

300

This is a designer catalog made to look like a consumer magazine.

What is a magalogue?

300

The Lumber brothers patented this device which both recorded and projected images.

What is a cinematographe?

300

the sale of advertising led to the creation of these, which allowed identical content to be transmitted on multiple stations for maximum revenue.

What are networks?

400

This was the year that the first printing press arrived in North America.

What is 1638?

400

This act of congress restricted the first amendment rights of citizens that would "any false scandalous and malicious writing" regarding congress, the president, or the federal government. 

What is the Alien and Sedition act?

400

This type of circulation is used when publishers provide magazines to a certain demographic for free.

What is controlled circulation?

400

The tendency for the brain to keep images our eyes see for ~1/24th a second. 

What is the persistence of vision?

400

In order to resolve an ongoing patent dispute, the US government forced the competing companies to merge into what company?

What is the Radio Corporation of American (RCA)?

500

This English law dictated that printers must use government paper and fueled revolutionary sympathies.

What is the Stamp Act?

500

This type of journalism focused on sensationalized, dramatic news in order to help newspapers compete with other large newspapers.

What is Yellow Journalism?

500

This policy is used when an advertiser demands an advance copy of the publication with the threat that advertising will be pulled if the company is displeased with the content. 

What is an ad-pull policy?

500

This type of distribution occurs when a movie is shown on a few select screens in hope that critical response, film festival accolades, and good word of mouth marketing will increase success.

What is a platform rollout?

500

The Trustee model of regulation is based upon these two premises. 

Spectrum Scarcity and Influence. 

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