1400-1700
The invention of 1440 that led to the spread of literacy in Europe.
What is the printing press?
Writer and Editor for "The Gazette" who said “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Pioneer of investigative journalism in the late 1800s
Who is Nellie Bly
Alexander Graham Bell
Who is the inventor of the telephone?
'Televisions finest hour"
What is coverage of the Kennedy assassination?
The king that censored printers by prohibiting certain books and requiring printers to obtain licenses. Printers were arrested for sedition and unfitting words.
Who is King Henry VIII?
Says that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.”
What is the Bill of Rights
Famous author who got his start writing for the Kansas City Star
Who is Ernest Hemingway
Allowed for cheaper and faster printing, leading to greater accessibility to the news.
What is the Penny Press?
Honed the modern news style: Concise wording, short sentences, dramatic delivery
The Radio
Publick Occurences
What is America's first newspaper?
The Stamp Act
forces all papers to display an official British seal and pay a tax that raises prices 50 percent. The act is repealed after violent protests
Made long distance reporting possible, was heavily used during the Civil War
What is the telegraph?
Yellow Journalism
Takes its name from the Yellow Kid, the first color comic.
Two prominent editors: Joseph Pulitzer (The World) and William Randolph Hearst (New York Journal).
Loud headlines, sensational stories on sin, faked pictures, and rumors disguised as news.
Led to war with Spain.
The event that propelled the USA into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor
Areopagitica
What is John Milton's plea for free speech?
The first SUCCESSFUL American newspaper
What is the Boston News-Letter
The North Star
What is an influential paper by Frederick Douglass dedicated to fighting slavery and bringing news to black Americans
Muckraking
What is journalism that crusades for social justice and exposes wrongdoing?
The scandal that led to the resignation of Nixon
What is Watergate
Corantos
What are English pamphlets translating foreign news from Dutch and German
The Zenger Trial
John Peter Zenger, a brash young editor, printed accusations of official corruption in his New York Weekly Journal.
Governor arrested him for libel.
Zenger’s attorney argued that citizens have a right to criticize the government. Libel only occurs when printed words are “false, malicious, or seditious.”
Jury agreed. Zenger set free.
Hearst and Pulitzer
Who were the two opposing publishers known for their conflict and participation in yellow journalism?
The inverted pyramid
What is the writing style that came from reporting by telegraph?
Established a prize for journalism, was the editor of "The World"
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?