Exam 8: Newspapers: the Rise and Decline of Modern Journalism

According to the textbook, most small nondaily papers in the United States are consensus oriented rather than conflict oriented.

Which statement about the relationship between blogging and traditional newspaper news is true?

Who reportedly said, "The modern editor of the popular journal does not care for facts. The editor wants novelty"?

The business arrangement in the newspaper industry in which two separately owned papers in the same city are permitted to combine their business and production operations is called a ______.

Joseph Pulitzer's New York World sent star reporter Nellie Bly around the world in seventy-two days to beat the fictional "record" set in the popular Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

_______________________ is a style of journalism that answers who, what, where, and when (and less frequently why or how) questions at the top of the story.

Which of the following is not true about large newspaper chains today?

___,who bought the New York Journal in 1895, is considered a yellow journalism publisher.

The term yellow journalism originated from a New York newspaper in the late nineteenth century that was printed on yellow-toned paper stock.

By the end of the nineteenth century, crusading newspapers like the New York World had what kind of approach to women's rights?

According to the textbook, some print journalism observers think one piece of good news for the industry is ______.

Compared with World War II and Vietnam, the war in Iraq has been a safe haven for reporters and other media workers.

Which of the following is generally considered the biggest threat to the future of newspapers?

President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term yellow journalism.

In 2015, which digital newspaper had the most digital traffic?

The newshole ______.

Objective journalism as championed by Adolph Ochs and the New York Times was particularly good at ______.

What point was the newspaper motto "It does not soil the breakfast cloth" trying to make?

Frederick Douglass's North Star was an antislavery paper published by a former slave.

___ was a female reporter for the New York World who traveled around the world in seventy-two days.