Newspapers
Targets
Mass Media
The Years That Matter
100

A newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue

What is an editorial?

100

Although it was first introduced in the 1920s, its rise in news coverage resulted in a decline in newspaper readership in the 1950s

What is television?

100

Broadcasting, print and digital 

What are media categories?

100

In what year did the publication of America's 1st Spanish-language newspaper begin?

What is 1808?

200

What is the name of the first Spanish-language newspaper printed in the U.S.?

What is El Misisipi?

200

Group with the largest percentage of newspaper readership

What is age 65 and up?

200

What is the main purpose of the mass media? 

What is, to communicate information to a large cross-section of people at the same time.

200

The year radio was invented

What is 1920?

300

America's first published newspaper

What is Publick Occurrences?

300

Age group that has less than 20% of that group reading newspapers

Who are 18-24 year-olds?

300

What accounts for the largest portions of newspapers' revenue/income?

What is advertising?

300

The year Freedom Journal began publication; its target audience was African-American readers.

What is 1827?

400

Newspaper started by Frederick Douglas

What is the "North Star"?

400

The future of newspapers are dependent on them

Younger readers

400

The quality of being trusted and believed in

What is credible?

400

The era newspapers began online publication to attract more readers

What is the 1990s?

500

In 1729, this founding father of American bought "The Pennsylvania Gazette" to compete with the other Philadelphia paper. 

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

500

The word 'media' is plural, referring to various means of sending information to the public. What is the singular form of this?

What is, medium?

500

newspapers, books, journals

What are examples of print media?

500

The year newspaper readership began declining because of a certain invention. 

What is 1950?