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The Evolution of American Newspapers
Competing Models of Modern Print Journalism
Categorizing News and US Newspapers
Challenges facing Newspapers
Wild Card
100
He wrote the earliest known written news account.
What is Julius Caesar?
100
Stories written in this style begin with the most important newsworthy information.
What is inverted pyramid style?
100
A National U.S. Newspaper with broad readership.
What is the New York Times, USA Today, Wall-Street Journal or the Christian Science Monitor?
100
Gannett and The Tribune Company are examples of these.
What is newspaper chains?
100
A Washinton Post Investigation of this scandal that was conducted by Bob Woodward and Carl Burstein in 1972.
What is Watergate?
200
The development of this in the fifteenth century greatly accelerated society's ability to send and receive information.
What is the printing press?
200
This type of journalism aims to explain key issues or events and place them in a broader historical or social context
What is interpretive journalism?
200
This type of journalism promotes community, social harmony, and is normally found in the newspaper weeklies of smaller towns.
What is Consensus-Oriented Journalism?
200
As newspapers began to have more and more online content, some major reporters left their big papers to start this online journalism medium.
What is a blog?
200
This kind of journalism adapts fictional techniques, such as descriptive details and setters and extensive character dialogue, to nonfiction material and in-depth reporting.
What is literary journalism?
300
These are very cheap newspapers that were usually sold on the street and competed with the more expensive newspapers of the day.
What is penny papers?
300
Precision journalism is sometimes criticized because of it.
What is horse-race journalism?
300
Inspired by artists and intellectuals such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Keroauc, and Bob Dylan, these newspapers challenged conventional values and voiced radical opinions, exploding onto the scene in the 1960s.
What is The Underground/Alternative Press?
300
Under joint operating agreements, competing newspapers will keep separate these, but join together in business and production operations.
What is new divisions?
300
These journalist took stories directly from newspapers and often still do.
What is radio journalists?
400
This kind of journalism emphasized profitable papers that carried exciting human-interest stories, crime news, and large headlines.
What is yellow journalism?
400
USA Today’s first vending box was made to look like it.
What is a TV?
400
A German language newspaper, and one of the first ethnic papers in America, this weekly was started in 1732 by Benjamin Franklin.
What is Philadelphische Zeitung?
400
After salaries, the industry's largest expense is this.
What is purchasing paper?
400
The space not taken up by ads.
What is newshole?
500
These are the two types of newspapers that existed in the late 18th century?
What is political papers/partisan press & commercial papers/commercial press?
500
Key institutions, such as journalism, began to loose their credibility in this decade.
What is 1960's?
500
With a national distribution of over 60 million, this year was the "high-water mark" for US daily newspapers.
What is 1992?
500
The online news surge and newsroom cutbacks have given way to this movement, which encourages non-professional journalists to spread news and information throughout their communities.
What is citizen journalism?
500
This newspaper was published by Pulitzer in the 1870's.
What is the New York World?