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Bias & Perspective
People
Groups
The Newspaper
Misc.
100
This is a type of bias where certain stories are given more importance than others.
What is bias by story selection?
100
This person hosts a television news program.
What is an anchor?
100
This group makes decisions about what type of stories to include on the newspapers front page.
What is the editorial board?
100
This is the title of a news story.
What is the headline?
100
This is news that has just happened, or is currently happening.
What is breaking news?
200
This political perspective believes in lower taxes and less government spending.
What is right-wing/conservative perspective?
200
This person is sent to a foreign country to cover news stories there.
What is a correspondent?
200
This group sells international news stories to media outlets around the world.
What are international news agencies?
200
This is the first part of a news story.
What is the lead?
200
This is when media outlets are prohibited from publishing certain information by a government or corporate ownership.
What is censorship?
300
This type of bias involves using language that is misleading.
What is bias by labelling?
300
This person writes a weekly news article about a particular subject or expressing an opinion.
What is a columnist?
300
These are organizations that represent people who have the same wishes, and often attempt to influence public policy or perceptions.
What are special interest groups?
300
Many online newspapers have this type of section, where readers can add their own thoughts or information.
What is the comments section?
300
This is a type of internet news headline that entices viewers to click on the link.
What is clickbait?
400
This is when news outlets present a story in a way that is shocking or extreme in order to attract readers.
What is sensationalism?
400
This person provides information to a journalist without giving his name.
What is an anonymous source?
400
These are the major media organizations in the world, usually corporately owned.
What is the mainstream media?
400
This is the amount of newspapers distributed, which often determines the rate that advertisers are charged?
What is the circulation?
400
These are people who release secret information to the public.
What are whistleblowers?
500
This is when news outlets present information through a biased interpretation in order to influence public opinion or attract more readers.
What is Spin
500
A type of work that many journalists perform whereby they are paid per story that they write.
What is freelance?
500
These are ordinary people who choose to participate in documenting events.
What are citizen journalists?
500
This section of the newspaper used to be a big source of revenue, until Craigslist was introduced.
What is the classifieds section?
500
This event, which happened in Toronto in 2010, encouraged dozens of citizen journalists to share their own side of the story.
What is the G20 summit?