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Chapter 8
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Journalism
Undergraduate 1
10/05/2011

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Colonial Period
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From the founding of the colonies to the American Revolution
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Benjamin Harris
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Published Publick Occurrences
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Publick Occurrences
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First colonial newspaper,Boston,1690
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John Peter Zenger
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Defied authorities with his New York Journal
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Federalist Papers
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Essays with diverse views on the form the new nation should take.
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John Adams
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Federalist president
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Alien & Sedition acts
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Discouraged criticism of government
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David Bowen
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Punished for criticzing the majority party
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Thomas Jefferson
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Anti-Federalist president
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James Gordon Bennett
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Organized the first methodical news coverage
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Horace Greeley
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Pioneered editorials
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Samuel Morse
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Invented the telegraph
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Lightning news
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Delivered by telegraph
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Inverted pyramid
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Most important information first
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Yellow Period
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Late 1800s;marked by sensationalism
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Emphasized human interest in newspapers
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Nellie Bly
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Stunt reporter
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William Randolph Hearst
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Built curculation with sensationalism
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Frederic Remington
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News illustrator whose work included Spanish-American War
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Jazz Journalism
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Updated Yellow Journalism, Often in tabloid format and featuring photography
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News
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A report on change
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Newsworthiness
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A ranking of news that helps decide what makes it into news packages
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Objectivity
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A concept in journalism that news should be gathered and told value-free.
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Herbert Gans
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Concluded the journalists have mainstream values
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Ethnocentrism
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Seeing things on the basis of personal experiences, values
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News Hole
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Space for news in a newspaper after ads are inserted;time in a newscast for news after ads
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News Flow
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Significance of events worth covering varies from day to day
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Staffing
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Available staff resources to cover news
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Consensible nature of news
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News organiztion second-guessing competition on deciding coverage
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Aggregation sites
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News sites that regurgiate news compiled from elsewhere or that offer pass through links to other sources
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Distributive journalism
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Information included in news from widely diverse sources of unchecked veracity
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GateKeepers
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Media people influencing messages en route
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Nonstop coverage
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News reporting geared to everpresent deadlines, as 24/7 formats
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Blog
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An amatuer web site, generally personal in nature
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Bob Woodward
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Bernstein's collegue in the Watergate revelations
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Carl Bernstein
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Washington post reporter who dug up Watergate
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Watergate
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Nixon administration scandal
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Investigative reporting
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Enterprise reporting that reveals new information;stories that offical sources would rather not have told
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Muckraking
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Fanciful term for digging up dirt;aimed at public policy reform.
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Ida Tarbell
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Muckraker remembered for her series on monoplostic corruption at standard oil
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Soft News
Definition
Geared to satisfying audience's information wants, not needs
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