Who
Who Part 2
Scandals
AP
Miscellaneous
100

He is credited with inventing the printing press.

Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

100
He wrote Common Sense.

Who is Thomas Paine?

100
Twice, President Nixon hired 5 men dressed as plumbers to break into buildings to illegally retrieve information. These two events were called ___________ and ___________.

What are Watergate and the Pentagon Papers?

100

AP stands for this.

What is the Associated Press?

100

These are the 5 Ws of journalism.

What are the who, what, where, when and why?

200

He was the anchorman of the CBS Nightly News for 19 years, being the first to break news such as the JFK and MLK Jr. assassinations and the moon landing to Americans.

Who is Walter Cronkite?

200
This journalist originally gained popularity for breaking the record of traveling around the world in the shortest amount of time -- 72 days.

Who is Nellie Bly?

200

Exaggerated headlines and made-up stories are found in this kind of journalism.

What is yellow journalism?

200

The Associated Press created this style of grammar and spelling that is specific to journalism.

What is AP style?

200

This is the name of the format of all journalism articles.

What is the inverted pyramid?

300

She got herself admitted into a mental hospital, then published an expose on the abuse of patients there.

Who is Nellie Bly?

300

The first televised presidential debate was between these two candidates.

Who are Nixon and Kennedy?

300

Yellow journalism helped cause the start of this war, after false reports that an American ship, the USS Maine, was bombed by Spain.

What is the Spanish American War?
300

The Associated Press aims to be unbiased towards any country, political group, or company. This is called being ____________.

What is independent?

300

The attention-grabbing first sentence or two of a news article is called a _________.

What is a lede?
400

He gave the governor of New York the 'middle fenger' in a news article, and won the libel case after.

Who is John Peter Zenger?

400

He broadcasted live from Europe during WW2, including from London when bombs were first dropped on the city.

Who is Edward R. Murrow?

400
Thomas Paine's Common Sense could have been considered to be 'scandalous' because it advocated for this.
What is independence from Britain?
400

Five newspapers in New York created the Associated Press to raise funds to send a ____________ to the border for information on the Mexican-American war, saving time and money.

What is a pony route?

400

This is the purpose of journalism.

What is to inform the publi so they can make the best decisions?

500

These two men owned the biggest newspapers in America at the end of the 1800s.

Who are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?

500

He was president through both the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandals.

Who is President Nixon?

500

Nellie Bly was considered scandalous at the time for this reason.

What is being a female journalist?

500
According to their website, the Associated Press reaches nearly 4 _______ people daily with their news stories and reporting.

What is billion?

500

List 3 kinds of media where you can access the news.

What is television, newspapers, magazines, online, radio, etc.?