Inventions
Journalists
Media Outlets
Events
Potpourri
100

Machine by which text is transferred from moveable type to paper with ink.

What is the printing press?

100

These journalists helped expose the wrongdoing of the Nixon administration through their reporting in The Washington Post.

Who were Woodward & Bernstein?

100

First black-owned newspaper in the US.

What is Freedom's Journal?

100

This event covered the death of a prominent figure and changed the way journalists covered breaking news; wall-to-wall live news coverage.

What is the assassination of JFK?

100

This journalist reported on lynching's in their neighborhood in order to shed light on the lives of African-Americans.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

200

This invention impacted journalists by changing the way we visually document events.

What is photography?

200
Publisher of Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper in America.

Who is Benjamin Harris?

200

Newspapers that cost only a penny and made news widely available to the lower classes.

What is the penny press?
200

Hundreds of journalists covered this event overseas and is considered the "first televised war."

What is the Vietnam War?

200

This type of media helped bring about the Arab Spring when Arabs were able to voice their discontent with their governments quickly and easily; able to organize protests through this medium

What is social media?

300

Invention created by Samuel Morse and transmitted messages via wires.

What is the telegraph?

300

American newspaper editor and publisher who participated in yellow journalism.

Who is Joseph Pulitzer?

300

The newspaper that broke the scandal involving President Nixon and five burglars at the Democratic National Convention; Publisher: Katharine Graham.

What is The Washington Post?

300

The press helped this event get coverage allowing women to see themselves as citizens with common problems and concerns.

What is women's suffrage?

300

This journalist was the first black person to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast.

Who is Lester Holt?

400

This type of journalism comes in many forms, it changed the way people receive the news instead of just reading the news they could now watch or listen to it.

What is broadcast journalism?

400

This woman went undercover to expose the inhumane conditions of a mental hosptial.

Who is Nellie Bly?

400

The magazine where Stephen Glass worked; found that Glass had fabricated many of his stories and ruined his career choices.

What is the New Republic?

400

A social movement against rape culture, sexual harassments, and sexual abuse; women were speaking out about their experiences; first published in the New York Times.

What is the #metoo movement?

400

This journalist was well respected until it was discovered he had misrepresented his reporting during the Iraqi war.

Who is Brian Williams?

500

This invention has allowed journalists to publish information faster than previously though possible, allowing for a constant stream of news.

What is the internet?

500

This person was arrested for libel because they said something negative about the British government.

Who is John Peter Zenger?

500

News network that employs Christiane Amanpour; where she reports on international news in a nightly program.

What is CNN?

500

This country mobilized troops to "stop the murdering of citizens" in a neighboring country. They have introduced a referendum for annexation.

What is the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

500

This world event forced journalist to rethink how they conducted interviews with people when they could not be around them due to medical risks.

What is the COVID-19 pandemic?