The Birth of Journalism
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100

In what ancient civilizations did journalist works first appear?

Ancient Rome

100

A kind of journalism, relied on eye-catching typography, exaggerated claims, and emotional appeals?

Yellow Journalism

100

In what year did the United States government start employing its own press agents?

1910

100

This social media site, launched in 2006, became a major tool for breaking news and crowdsourced reporting?

Twitter

100

Which president invented the journalism term muckraker?

Theodore Rosevelt

200

What was the first English newspaper?

Weekly news

200

When was the associated press founded?

May 1846

200

What was the first news-oriented public relations agency established in Boston in 1900?

Publicity Bureau

200

The New York Times published this special section providing extensive coverage following the September 11 attacks?

A Nation Challenged

200

What journalism term came from newspaper circulation war in NYC over a comic?

Yellow journalism

300

When was the first daily newspaper published?

1702

300

who published Porcupine's Gazette in the U.S. and later the Political Register in Britain?

William Cobbett

300

Until around what year did journalism stop being biased and start becoming more objective and neutral?

1920s

300

This energy company's 2001 accounting scandal was first exposed by Wall Street Journal reporters and led to one of the biggest bankruptcies in history?

Enron

300

What did early journalists began using to transmit war dispatches during Civil war?

Telegraph

400

In what year did German cities and Antwerp begin publishing early newspapers?

1609

400

Who are the five publishers in the very first of associated press founded?

The Sun, New York Herald, New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, New York Evening Express

400

What was the first University to open a dedicated school for journalism?

University of Missouri

400

In 2000, this internet company bought Time Warner, creating the largest media company in the world at the time?

AOL

400

The very first multi-page newspaper was printed in Boston in 1690 by who?

Benjamin Harris