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This is the full name of the BBC, the outlet that many UK citizens turn to for news.
What is the British Broadcasting Corporation?
With his book, this guy brought the unsanitary conditions and unfair labor practices of the meat industry to public attention in 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This term from the early 1900s refers to a journalist who seeks to expose systemic wrongdoing or injustice, with clear activist goals.
What is a muckraker?
This is the paper that Superman/Clark Kent writes for
What is the Daily Planet?
This colloquial term refers to the status of a celebrity who, after receiving negative coverage in the media or being the subject of an expose, faces a career setback or loses it altogether.
What is cancelled?
Der Tagesspiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung are daily newspapers published in this country.
What is Germany?
This trend, which began in 1930, lists all of the astrological star signs in a newspaper, along with a supposed prediction of one's future, respective to that star sign.
What is a horoscope?
This is another name for the title of a news article.
What is headline?
Since 1927, this magazine has selected a man, woman, or group of people as "Person of the Year."
What is Time Magazine?
This 2004 comedy film with Will Ferrell chronicles a fictional cable news network and the cast of oddballs that staff it.
What is Anchorman?
This non-profit organization seeks to safeguard the right to freedom of information and freedom of the press around the world.
What is Reporters Without Borders? Or, what is Reporters Sans Frontières ?
This form of media, similar to radio, is the broadcasting of audio over the internet, and is the latest form of media that people get their news from.
What is podcasting?
This is a newspaper article that details the life and accomplishments, along with the details of the death of a recently deceased person.
What is an obituary?
This magazine shares a name with a rock band and specializes in film, television, music, and politics.
What is Rolling Stone?
This museum in Washington DC displayed exhibits and materials related to the history of journalism and free speech before shutting its doors on December 31, 2019.
What is the Newseum?
This is the day the United Nations General Assembly has dubbed World Press Freedom Day.
What is May 3rd?
This man was the first black broadcast news anchor in the United States, anchoring for ABC World News Tonight
Who is Max Robinson?
This term refers to a title or thumbnail of an online article or video that is designed to entice readers with sensation and spectacle, and is often misleading.
What is clickbait?
This satirical news website, named after a food, spoofs current headlines and topics.
What is The Onion?
This fictional character is the go-to news anchor that all the residents of Springfield turn to for their television news.
Who is Kent Brockman?
This country, as of 2022, according to the Press Freedom Index, is considered to be the country with the greatest amount of freedom for the press.
What is Norway?
This term, associated with the writer Thomas Carlyle and British politician Edmund Burke, refers to the watchdog role of the press, calling them:
"The _____ Estate."
What is the fourth estate?
A source may use this term to describe information they do not want published when being questioned by a reporter.
What is Off-the-Record?
This paper covers local politics, culture, and happenings in Alexandria, Virginia.
What is the Alexandria Times?
Kitt Kittredge is a fictional character living in the Great Depression who dreams of being a journalist and belongs to this line of toys.
What is American Girl Dolls?