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

Starting around 2005, large newspaper chains responded to the decline in newspaper circulation by buying up more newspapers and increasing newsroom staff.

Which of the following are specific groups of readers targeted by specialized newspapers?

Modern journalism started to develop in the nineteenth century mainly because newspapers ______.

Bureau reporters ______.

What makes literary journalism different from early-twentieth-century models of "objective" journalism?

The modern legacy of the style of journalism practiced by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst includes ______.

Select the correct historical order among the following major eras in journalism history.

Daily newspaper circulation numbers ______.

Which of the following developments has contributed to the overall decline in newspaper readership over most of the last century?

Yellow journalism can be seen as a predecessor of _______________________: news reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly in business and government.

Literary journalism uses the devices of fiction to construct a portrait of the real world using nonfictional material.

Yellow journalism is ______.

___,who bought the New York Times in 1896, championed "no frills" reporting.

Advertising revenue, the lifeblood of newspaper operations, ______.

What spawned the rise of interpretive journalism in the 1930s and 1940s?

Online newspaper stories have to be briefer and more streamlined than the print version.

_______________________ bought the New York Times in 1896.

The two significant features of yellow journalism were an emphasis on crime and disasters and ______.

General assignment reporters ______.

_______________________ attempts to make the news more scientifically accurate by using poll surveys and questionnaires.