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Ms. W
100

Spearheaded 'Yellow Journalism' and famously stated that war made for good circulation; had political ambitions

Who is William Randolph Hearst?

100

Guarantees freedom of the press in the United States

What is the First Amendment?

100

The first television station to play all music 

What is MTV?

100

The name for unethical, irresponsible journalism that emphasizes hoaxes, screaming headlines, frauds and self-promotion

What is Yellow Journalism?

100

The university I graduated from

What is Ole Miss?

200

Publisher of the New York World and competitor to Hearst during the era of 'Yellow Journalism'

Who is Joseph Pulitzer?

200

The first newspaper ever published in the American colonies

What is Publick Occurences?

200

The era that the telegraph was the most useful to reporters

What is the Civil War era?

200

The purpose of the Federalist Papers

What is to convince Americans to adopt the Constitution?

200

The high school I graduated from

Southaven High School

300

A muckraker committed to tackling the corruption in mental facilities

Who is Nellie Bly?

300

Before the Penny Press newspapers were filled with

What are ads, letters to the editor, and other random things?

300

The year CNN first started broadcasting

What is 1980?

300

The release of classified documents to the New York Times regarding the Vietnam War

What are the Pentagon Papers?

300

My favorite drink

What is coffee?

400

Famous radio host stationed in London during WWII

Who is Edward Murrow?

400

How the Penny Press changed the financial stability of newspapers

What is using advertising to pay the bills?

400

This war put CNN in the national spotlight

What is the 1st Gulf War?

400

The telegraph led to this style of journalism writing

What is the inverted pyramid style?

400
The names of my dogs

Who are Sadie and Annie?

500

Who signed the Federalist Papers

Who is 'Publius'?

500

Offense were newspapers charged with when they criticized the government, even if their criticisms were true

What is sedition?

500

This case allowed individuals to publish criticisms of the government without punishment, as long as it was both truthful and backed by evidence

What is the Zenger Trial?

500

The type of story you may read now that Nellie Bly may have written in the past

What is an exposé?

500

My fiancé's name

Who is McCoy?