Who Done It?
This early 20th-century newspaper editor doggedly covered the lynchings of Black men in the Jim Crow South
Who is Ida B Wells?
This satirical news website named after a food recently restarted its print issues.
What is The Onion?
This news magazine darkened OJ Simpson's skin tone of his mugshot.
What is TIME?
These profit-motivated sets of instructions determine what you see when you search something online or go to your social media pages.
What are algorithms?
This group pretended for years they thought birds had been replaced by robots to make a point about the rise of conspiracy theories.
This rising star had his career shattered when it turned out he'd made up a story for The New Republic about a hacker hired by a big tech company
Who is Stephen Glass?
This East Coast tabloid got in trouble for its coverage of two alleged Boston Marathon Bombing suspects -- who were *not* actually Boston Marathon Bombing suspects
What is the New York Post?
This podcast about a former famous fitness coach raised important questions about privacy and how long soemone counts as a public figure.
What is "Missing Richard Simmons"?
John Wolfe coined the term in the 1960s for writing that blends literary writing techniques with journalistic reporting.
What is New Journalism?
David Hanig’s tongue map is an example of what some might call fake news. But having taken this class, you know the more specific term for the people unintentionally spreading incorrect information is this.
Misinformation
This pioneer of New Journalism wrote about a child on acid in the 1960s. When asked about how it made her feel decades later she said "“Let me tell you, it was gold. You live for moments like that if you're doing a piece."
Who is Joan Didion?
The Washington Post wrote a series of stories titled *this* about the damage AR-15 bullets do to bodies — specifically using real autopsy reports from two mass shootings.
What is The Blast Effect?
The Chapel Hill Study established the concept of ______, which suggests that the media plays a powerful role in deturming what voters and governments think is important.
The Agenda-Setting Theory
A community, either rural or urban, with limited access to the sort of credible and comprehensive news and information that feeds democracy at the grassroots level.
What is a news desert?
In 1985, this virtual community debuted, becoming the first-ever social media platform.
What is Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (WELL)?
This bank teller's photograph of the Oklahoma City Bombing was published all over the word after he submitted it to the AP
Who is Charles Porter?
David Fahrenthold mixed good old fashion watchdog reporting and direct audience engagement on social media while reporting on Donald Trump's philanthropy for this publication
What is the Washington Post?
Judith Miller erroneously reported that aluminum tubes on their way to this country were used to make weapons of mass destruction.
Where is Iraq?
In order to win a libel case against a public figure, you have to prove this.
Actual malice.
Joe Rosenthall's famous WWII photo taken after this battle spurred controversy when some people thought it might be staged.
What is Iwa Jima?
This journalist was involved in publishing on Watergate, "Jimmy's World" and President Trump's Covid Claims
Who is Bob Woodward?
After his untimely death, Don Mellet and this Ohio newspaper received the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on mob corruption in local government and the murder of a local mobster.
What is the Canton Daily News?
John Harte ignored police and took a picture of a grieving family looking at the body of Edward Romero in what Bakersfield park?
Hart Park
A big entity might file this frivolous, bad-faith lawsuit in order to stop criticism or bad press.
What is a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)?
This slow-developing condition comes from long-term workplace stress and might make you procrastinate or cause chronic fatigue.
What is burnout?