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An actual event or situation is this.
What is a fact?
Someone who gathers the news, writes it, edits it, or otherwise prepares it for print or broadcast is this.
What is a journalist?
This is the most respected newspaper in the country.
What is the New York Times?
This amendment guarantees freedom of the press.
What is the First Amendment?
When presenting opinions, this is the reason why it is iportant to present as many opinions as possible?
What is to serve the entire school community?
The short time that a news event is new and relevant.
What is shelf life?
A newspaper restricting what it will publish is this.
What is self-censorship?
This is the reason that newspapers are going out of business today.
What is the popularity of television and the internet?
This branch of the federal government monitors and licenses radio and television stations.
What is the Federal Communications Commission?
The school newspaper must serve these people.
What is the entire school community?
Holding a coverstation with another person, exhanging views, ideas and opinions is this.
What is interpersonal communication?
The exchange of information during interpersonal communication is this.
What is feedback?
These are the two major press associations.
What are the Associated Press and Reuters?
Radio and TV must provide equal time for all politcal candidates, thanks to this law.
What is equal-time law?
A newspaper can meet community expectations by doing this.
What is by being as fair and complete as possible, and by handling situations gracefully.
These protect journalists from revealing their sources.
What are shield laws?
These present background information and in-depth coverage of an issue or news event.
What are documentaries?
The invention of the linotype machine improved newspaper growth in this way.
What is it allowed type to be set quickly for presses?
According to this document, radio and TV must allow opposing veiwpoitns comparable airtime.
What is the Fairness Doctrine?
School administrators practice self-censorship in this way.
What is limit or prohibit the distribution of the school newspapers if the newspapers interfere with the school environment?
Printing sensational stories--often untree--about bizzare and unusual events is this.
What is yellow journalism?
This are opinions that are broadcast, as part of a newscast, like editorials in newspapers.
What are commentaries?
This is the reason that newspapers began to close after World War I.
What is production costs?
Newspapers cannot invade someone's privacy. The only reason to print someone's name or personal information is NEWSWORTHINESS. What says this?
What are privacy laws?
In this way, a school newspaper improves relations between students and the community.
What is the newspaper gives the students a voice, and a window into the local community.