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Famous Article/Publication Facts
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Concepts/Definitions
Mystery Topic
100

This newspaper editor is known for saying, "You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.”

William Randolph Hearst?

100

This early 20th century work of undercover journalism exposed poor working and sanitary conditions at a Chicago meatpacking plant.

What is The Jungle?

100

If a piece is promoting a single viewpoint and using first person, it is like this type of journalism and NOT a news article. 

What is an opinion piece?
100

When defamation is written down, it's called this. 

What is libel?

100

Information that is based in reality but “spun” to harm an organization or group.

What is mal-information?

200

This man wrote the "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood

Who is Truman Capote? 

200

Shane Bauer published this work after he went undercover as a for-profit prison guard, using his real name and resume to get the job. 

What is American Prison?

200

Journalist and abolitionist Horace Greeley created this character to point out hypocrisy with an objective approach to the issue of slavery during the Civil War.

What is "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways"?

200

This kind of journalism digs up information that otherwise would be hidden from public light.

What is watchdog journalism?

200

This newspaper publisher believed journalists could be independent minded but opinionated.

Who is Horace Greeley?

300

This man is credited with coining the term New Journalism.

Who is Tom Wolfe?

300

Los Angeles Times photojournalist Brian Walski lost his job for ethical no-no involving a photo he took in Iraq of civilians and soldiers under fire.

What is combining two images together? (OR, what is altering an image?)

300

Griswold v. Connecticut, a case involving contraceptive use for married couples, established a constitutional right to this. 

What is privacy?

300

PBS and NPR are examples of this type of publicly funded journalism. 

What is non-profit news?

300

This approach to news reporting that focuses on the responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves.

What is solutions-oriented journalism?
400

A group of photojournalists who covered sub-Saharan Africa, earned this nickname for running toward gunfire.

What is the Bang Bang club?

400

Caleb Hannan regrets this 2014 article for Grantland, which pointed out lies in the story of a doctor who'd invented a new golf club -- and also outted the woman as trans against her wishes who ultimately committed suicide. 

"Dr. V's Magical Putter"

400

Kevin Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for "The Struggling Girl," his photo of a starving Sudanese child (who was a boy) with this animal in the background.

What is a vulture?

400

The legal framework that deals with public records is rooted in the public's _____ to know. 

What is the public's RIGHT to know?

400

According to your reading, this percentage of American newspapers use paywalls.

What is 76%?

500

This rising star fooled her bosses at the Washington Post -- including Bob Woodward of Water-gate fame! -- with "Jimmy's World," a made-up story about an 8-year-old boy addicted to heroin.

Who is Janet Cooke?

500

This Texas publication has more full-time statehouse reporters than any other American news organization. 

What is the Texas Tribune?

500

In this court case, a photojournalist took a photo of the silhouette of a dead girl after being invited into the room by the police chief. The court rule it was not an invasion of privacy. 

What is Florida Publishing Co. v. Fletcher?

500

According to this way of thinking, computers are always superior to people. 

What is techno-chauvinism?

500

According to your reading, Ted Cruz was eating this type of cuisine during an off-the-record conversation with reporters on the campaign trail. 

What is Chinese food?