Chapter 1
This functions to inform, analyze, interpret, and explain.
What is journalism?
This is vital to journalism.
What is verification?
According to the textbook, this type of journalism is seen as more of a service than a product.
What is engaged journalism?
This is loyal to clients first.
What is public relations?
This is a concern surrounding numbers in terms of viewers and the amount of engagement revolves around.
What is digital ad revenue?
The first tenet of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics.
What is "seek truth and report it"?
The crime of revolting or inciting revolt against government.
What is sedition?
The largest journalism leak in history, it began in 2016, but data dates back to the 1970s, when John Doe chose to leak to journalists.
What is the Panama Papers?
This type of journalism alerts us to what needs attention.
What is The Watchdog?
This phrase explains why journalists sometimes get stories wrong.
What is confirmation bias?
The most critical skill in journalism.
What is listening?
A cornerstone of reliability, according to our textbook.
What is independence?
The depth of involvement that a news customer has with a media product.
What is engagement?
Passing off someone else’s words or ideas as your own.
What is plagiarism?
Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person’s reputation.
What is defamation?
According to this chapter in review of the principles of journalism, this is what entity journalists should put first
What is the public?
According to the Hutchinson Commission, this contains elements of tolerance and pluralism.
What is social empathy?
This is who or what journalism exists to serve.
The citizens or public
A way to give audiences a better understanding of who journalists are and how they operate.
What is transparency?
Church, a political party, or an organization are all examples of this.
What is a faction?
These have been organized to do investigative journalism.
What are nonprofit organizations? (States Newsroom, Report for America)
Defined as a code of conduct in the textbook.
What is morality?
Written or broadcast defamation. A false statement that damages a person’s reputation.
What is libel?
These are defined as what locks down communications, such as intellectual property, convenience over liberty, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google
What are choke points?
This type of accountability involves non-governmental organizations and the press to enforce standards of performance on officials.
What is vertical accountability?
This journalistic term is a combination of trustworthiness and expertise that makes the public more or less likely to believe or rely on what a source of information tells them.
What is credibility?
Today, more than half of Americans surveyed in a 2019 study said they thought this had too much control over the news, and that inaccurate news was a problem.
What is social media?
Used to describe a person’s (alleged) ability to completely detach from, and have no opinion or perspective on, a given issue.
What is objectivity?
News covered in a defined geographic region.
What is hyperlocal news? (Patch, ARLnow, WhereBy.Us)
This duty includes keeping your promises (fidelity), noninjury, and reparation.
What are perfect duties?
This newspaper was at the center of a court case in 1971 that ended up providing more protection for speech in the United States.
What is "The New York Times"?
The local journalist-turned-podcaster I've used in several examples of investigative journalism over the semester?
Who is Mandy Matney?
This states that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is the First Amendment?
This is one of the several investigative journalism cases we discussed in class.
Dr. Nassar, Baylor Univ. athletic dept. sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein
This is one example of an engaged journalism news source we discussed in class.
Citybureau.org, ProPublica, or Gather
A term that describes presenting both sides of a case
What is fairness bias?
A distinct section of news that is paid for by an advertiser The subject matter of the content often matches that of the advertising.
What is sponsored content?
The first of nine steps in how to decide how to provide information to the public.
What is "start with an open mind"?
One of the limits under the law of privacy, this is when a journalist gives publicity to a matter concerning another person that portrays that person falsely if the portrayal would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
What is false light invasion of privacy?
This was the organization shown in a video as an example of journalists as activists and activists as journalists.
What is Human Rights Watch?