Vocabulary
New Media
Online Media and Innovation
Fact-checking & Verification
Journalism Concepts
100

A type of journalism that involves traditional independent reporting and cutting-edge destination marketing. 

What is mainstream travel writing?

100

A national outlet named after the Nineteenth Amendment that focuses on “the intersection of gender, politics, and policy.”

What is The 19th*?

100

This is a news organization focusing on journalism education in Denmark.

What is Koncentrat?

100

A tool that finds similar pictures and helps verify photos.

What is a reverse image search?

100

This type of journalism writes about travel or tourism, by providing information, entertainment, and critical perspectives.

What is travel journalism?

200

A concept that refers to the information you receive from first-hand, second-hand, and third-hand sources.

What are concentric circles of sources?

200

Facebook found itself embroiled with this company because of unethical harvesting of user data.

What is Cambridge Analytica?

200

This is a way that news organizations build audience loyalty via emails.

What is a newsletter?

200

This is one of the three core concepts of the discipline of verification, talking about showing your work so readers can decide for themselves why they should believe it.

What is transparency?

200

A type of journalism that involves working independently and pitching story ideas to various news publications.

What is freelance journalism?

300

A system of control where inmates cannot know whether they are under surveillance.

What is panopticon?

300

These online companies make up the acronym GAFAT, and have a huge influence on news media.

What are Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter?
300

Develop ideas that improve the world; collaborate with readers; diversify; be meaningful in all of our work; report fairly.

What are the Guardian's five principles for journalism?

300

An aspect of the discipline of verification that involves keeping an open mind.

What is humility?

300

Rusbridger refers to this approach of journalism as presenting readers with facts and differing viewpoints of an argument or issue so they can make decisions for themselves.

What is proper news?

400

This is a type of truth that "a sorting-out process that develops between the initial story and the interaction among the public, newsmakers, and journalists over time."

What is journalistic truth?

400

The two categories American startups tend to fall into.

What are "tech-centered" and "focused on niche beats"?

400

This is a new set of templates covering some common story types.

What is a story playbook?

400

This fact-checking outlet was founded in 2007 out of the newsroom of the St. Petersburg Times.

What is PolitiFact?

400

Rusbridger says the ultimate defense for the importance of journalism is that it remains as an example of this.

What is a public good?

500

This is the first principle of journalism, according to Kovach and Rosenstiel.

What is the disinterested pursuit of truth?

500

A type cutting-edge marketing that appropriates the traditional storytelling elements of travel writing.

What is "new marketing"?

500

A content management system that classified news articles based on categories and sub-categories

What is the Story Engine?

500

This is the general name of fact-checking institutions fueled by social media companies and nonprofit organizations.

What is fact-checking philanthropy?

500

This refers to the separation of editorial and advertising aspects of journalism.

What is the division "church" and "state"?