Watergate
Definitions
Definitions 2
Historical Examples
100
The President of the U.S. during Watergate
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
Companies
What are things an Investigative reporter should look into?
100
2
What are the minimum number of sources a journalist should have before publishing?
100
A book that exposed the need for reform in Chicago's meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
200
A fundraising organization of U.S. president Richard Nixon’s administration. Besides its re-election activities, this organization was directly and actively involved in the Watergate scandal.
What is Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)?
200
Government
What are things an Investigative reporter should look into?
200
When the confidential source says it's ok
When should journalists publish the identity of confidential sources?
200
Exposed the discrimination in lending practices against the black community in Atlanta
What is The Color of Money?
300
A Washington Post reporter who exposed the Watergate scandal
Who is Bob Woodward?
300
Source information intended to be used for publication or attribution
What is on the record?
300
finding, reporting, and presenting news which other people are trying to hide
What is investigative reporting?
300
The TV broadcast that used multimedia clips to show the danger of the Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunts.
What is Edward R Murrows on See It Now?
400
A Washington Post reporter who exposed the Watergate scandal
Who is Carl Bernstein?
400
Word for word notes
What is verbatim?
400
Paragraph in which the rest of the story is foreshadowed (and shows the value of the story)
What is a nut graph?
400
Reported the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers.
What are Seymour Hersh's stories on the My Lai massacre
500
The editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal
Who is Ben Bradlee?
500
Nothing from this source may appear in an article or on the air. The information can only be used if it is confirmed by another source and is attributed to the second source.
What is Deep Background?
500
The briefest version of a story.
What is a news brief?
500
Exposed the secret order that allowed the NSA to spy on Americans without warrants after 9/11
What is James Risen and Eric Lichtblau's article for the New York Times?