First Amendment
Suppression of speech, public communication, or other information
What is Censorship?
What was the Penny Press?
The use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy, in order to provoke public interest or excitement.
What is sensationalism
The first African-American Newspaper
What is Freedom's Journal?
Title, byline, picture, caption, body, link to a neutral article
Defamation expressed by the press, that is harmful to a person's reputation
What is libel?
Showed the physical evidence of an investigation.
What is photojournalism?
Before the Black press?
Names, months, proper nouns, titles, days of the week
Government interference with freedom of the press by outlawing publication of what it sees as undesirable (embarrassing) content.
What is prior restraint?
Members of the public participate in collecting, reporting and analyzing events
What is citizen journalism?
The action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people in an underhanded (secret or dishonest) way.
What is muckraking?
A prominent black journalist and activist, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television, Internet/ Social Media
What is the press
A trial influenced by the witnesses/ jury's access to the press during the trial
What is the Trial of Sam Sheppard?
Who was Nellie Bly?
Two rival News Paper Owners who created Yellow Journalism
Who are William Randolph Hearst (The New York Journal) and Joseph Pulitzer (New York World)
Founder of the Chicago Defender
Who is Robert S. Abbott?
Money, speed, censorship
What are obstacles that may jeopardize the accuracy of journalists?
Because of libel, the press will withhold themselves completely from publishing something that may end in a libel lawsuit. To avoid this, Newspapers might...
What is Self- Censor?
This created a sense of “immediacy”, “truth”, and “reality”
What did TV coverage of the Civil Rights Movement do for Americans?
A fabrication published by the New York Sun in 1835 that described bat-like humanoids, not on earth.
What is the Great Moon Hoax?
Two goals of early African American journalism
What is education and moral reform?
writing, researching, editing, analyzing