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The name for an original source of information, such as a government document or direct quote.
What is a primary source?
Which isn't a journalism ethics principle as outlined by SPJ?
a. Seek Truth and Report It
b. Minimize Harm
c. Record Everything
d. Act Independently
e. Be Accountable and Transparent
What is c. Record Everything
He bought Twitter and renamed it X. He's also the world's richest man and advisor to President-Elect Donald Trump.
Who is Elon Musk?
She went undercover in a mental health facility (then called asylums) to expose abuse and wrongdoing.
Who is Nelly Bly?
The five freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment.
What are the right to freedom of religion, press, speech, peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances
What movie chronicles the movement that brought down movie producer Harvey Weinstein?
What is "She Said?"
What was the name of the ship whose explosion newspapers used to help spark the Spanish-American war?
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Type of law protecting original work, including photographs and writing.
What is copyright law?
William Randolph Hearst's biggest rival.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
Black journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching movement in the 1890s, fought for women's suffrage and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
A form of censorship that gives the government permission to review contents of printed materials that may prevent publication.
What is prior restraint?
These actors played Woodward and Bernstein in 1974's All the President's Men.
Who are Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman?
The alternative to a sale of TikTok in the US law that bans the social media platform in January 2025.
What is the sale to a U.S. company?
Laws enacted by President John Adams that made it illegal to criticize the government and easier to detain citizens.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
Built a media empire including the most-watched news network in the United States today.
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
Muckracker who went after Nelson D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
What is the more than 100-year old law that incoming President Donald Trump has hinted at using against the press?
What is the Espionage Act?
What is music journalist Lester Bangs' journalistic advice in the movie 'Almost Famous?'
What is: "Do Not Make Friends With The Rock Stars."
The network that in December 2024 settled with incoming President Donald Trump for $15 million instead of fighting his charge of defamation in court.
What is ABC?
A law enacted in 1917 that makes it illegal to "collect, record, publish, or communicate information that might be useful to the enemy."
What is the Espionage Act?
Pioneering (and accidental) female media mogul who rose to power in the 1970s.
Who is Katherine Graham?
He pioneered coverage of WWII on radio, called for the end of McCarthyism and chronicled how America gets its food in a 1960 documentary called Harvest of Shame.
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
What are 1798 and 1918?
What movie chronicles the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning series that exposed sexual abuse in the Catholic church?
What is "Spotlight?"
The first broadcasting "network" that united "affiliates" and gave birth to national news over the airwaves was called what and formed when?
What is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) formed in 1924 by RCA?
Recording interviews and conversations varies under laws in each ____?
What is state?
Billionaire owners of newspapers that decided not to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024.
Who are Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong.
In 1971, he leaked information on secret documents evaluating the Vietnam War, leading to a landmark press freedom case known as the Pentagon Papers.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
Choose one: percentage of U.S. adults that, according to an April 2024 Pew Research survey, say freedom of the press is extremely or very important to society.
a) 73% b) 12% c) 55% d) 90%
a) 73%
What is 'Rosebud?'
The childhood sled of the mogul modeled after William Randolph Hearst in Citizen Kane.