The Birth of Journalism (1400-1799)
This important part of the Bill of Rights states that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech or of the press." (Name the law.)
What is the First Amendment?
Kansas shares Kansas City with this neighbor state, which was the first state to have a newspaper printed west of the Mississippi River. (Name the state.)
What is Missouri?
In 1901, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi sends the first signal of this audible source of news across the Atlantic Ocean. (Name the device.)
What is a radio?
What is social media?
These six simple questions form the basis of journalism investigation. They are generally answered in the first several paragraphs of a news article.
What are who, what, when, where, why and how?
Johann Gutenberg invented this device in 1440, allowing written information to be shared on a wide scale. (Name the device.)
What is the printing press?
In the 1830s, newspapers used this bird, often seen as a pest in big cities, to deliver its editions.
What is a pigeon?
Often viewed in history as television's breakthrough moment, famous T.V. anchor Walter Cronkite broke the news of the assassination of this U.S. president to the American people in 1963. (Name the president.)
Who is (John F.) Kennedy?
iTunes added this digital form of communication to their platform in 2005. (Name the media form.)
What are podcasts?
This is the name of the major newspaper distributed in Kansas City.
What is the Kansas City Star?
It's no shock (hint, hint) that this famous American founding father was the editor of one of America's best newspapers in the colonies.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
"The present turtle at the head of the government" and "slang-whanging stump speaker" were insults printed in newspapers about this now beloved American president who led from 1861-1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The largest radio audience in history listened in as Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on this country, the day after they attacked Pearl Harbor. (Name the country.)
What is Japan?
Between the years of 2000 and 2010 this source of news information declined the most rapidly. (Name the media source.)
What is a newspaper?
The first political cartoon published in an American newspaper illustrates a warning to the colonies to "join or die" urging colonists to unite against the French and Native Americans in war. It shows a segmented animal representing each of the colonies. What animal is drawn?
What is a snake?
This founding father argued in court that citizens have a right to criticize the government and that libel only occurs when printed words are "false, malicious and seditious." The jury, and fans of historical musicals (hint hint), agreed.
Who is Andrew Hamilton?
Who is (Joseph) Pulitzer?
This still active television news network was the first 24-hour news channel on the planet.
What is the Cable News Network or CNN?
Many of the oldest newspapers in the world, including The Madison Capital-Times, announce that they will stop printing actual papers and transition to existing only on this technology. (Name the technology.)
What is the Internet?
This musical term (hint) refers to the area or subject a reporter is assigned to cover—be it a physical location (ex. a city) or topic (ex. politics)?
What is a beat?