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Elements that helped to define the Penny Press
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objectivity
Accessibility
Attracted Advertisers
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Advocacy Journalism
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Upton Sinclair
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Gonzo Journalism
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- Breaks all the rules and does not use objectivity, use of first person
- Hunter S. Johnson
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Define objectivity as it related to journalism?
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- Being equally subjective, and not being biased about your opinion
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Define immersion reporting
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- Observe firsthand what is going on but you are not participating because you don’t want to disturb the story
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Subjectivity
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- Being very opinionated , making something personal
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Straight news
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- News that consists of facts given straight without embellishments
- Objective
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4 Elements of what would make story news worthy?
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- Proximity
- Prominence
- Unusual
- Significance
- Timing
- Conflict
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Editorial
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- Says the news but allows for opinion
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News stories
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- Straight news
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Define Citizen Journalism and an example of a publication that uses citizen journalism
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- A journalism practiced by regular individuals
- CNN- I Reports
- Baltimore Sun has a page for local news
- Huffington Post
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Issues of national security vs. reporting the truth about war
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- National security- water gate scandal
- Went into trenches so people saw what it was really like
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Ida B. Wells
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- Original Rosa Parks
- Became investigative journalist
- Wrote column called Iola, wrote in a plain way so everyone could understand
- Had an anti-lynching campaign
- Wrote a book about lynching including a white source
- The free speech- African American paper for free blacks
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Frederick Douglass
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- Advocacy
- Founded the North star newspaper to end slavery
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What year was the internet created?
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- 1960- Arper net
- 1984- The internet began
- 1996- Internet Explorer
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Ethics involving investigative journalism
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- Needs to be objective
- And get all the sides in investigative journalism
- Cannot make up information
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Slander
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criticize someone in broadcast
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Liable
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criticize someone in print
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Primary goal of news organizations
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- To supply news reports to newspapers, magazines, television, and radio
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Advertising vs. editorial
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- Techniques and practices used to bring products, services, opinions, or causes to public notice for the purpose of persuading the public to respond in a certain way.
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Lincoln Steffens
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- Muckraking
- Investigated government and political corruption
- Criticized new jersey for patronizing incorporation
- Tried to provoke outrage with examples of corrupt government throughout the urban area
- Investigated the corrupted system in Chicago
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George Orwell’s Journalistic career
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- Wrote short novels about cis
- Propaganda for BBC
- Wrote books 1984, animal farm, satires
- Believed journalism should be straight facts and not advocate anything
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The name 2 of Edward R. Murrow’s newscasts
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- See it Now
- Person to Person
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Edward R. Murrow’s Career
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- Famous for See it Now- accuses the democratic party of 20 years of treason, accuses people of being communist
- Mc Carthy- accusing everyone of being a communist
- Edward R. Murrow sets the record straight
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Hunter S. Thompson
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- Gonzo journalism
- Started in sports
- Killed himself
- Wrote fear and loathing in Las Vegas
- Rum diaries
- Helped establish the rolling stone as a serious and significant publication.
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Truman Capote
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- Flamboyant and flashy
- Elite social circles and gossip
- In cold blood- changed him forever because it took such an emotional toll that caused him to turn to alcohol
- Wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Investigated a murder in Kansas; two guys went into a house and bound five people
- Ethical questions were raised about how he went about to get the story
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Norman Corwin
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- Newspaper journalist
- Radio news: WBZA
o We hold these truths- explored American values, won Peabody awards
o On a Note of Triumph- end of WWII, most listened to radio drama , rebroadcasted
o 26 by Corwin- broadcasted without sponsorship and no creative interference from network
o One world Flight- documentaries recording hundreds of voices
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Bob Woodward
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- Has written books
- Went to Yale, ROTC
- Hired at the Washington Post
- One of the national nonfiction bestsellers
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Carl Bernstein
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- Started as paper boy
- Worked at Washington post
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What were Woodward and Bernstein known for?
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- The Watergate scandal
- Tapped into phones
- Got information from an ex deputy of the FBI
- Deep Throat
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Nellie Bly
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- Was an investigative reporter
- “Behind the silent bars”
- 10 days in insane asylum, posed as an insane person in order to find out how the hospital was being run
- Around the world in 72 days
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The journalist best known for a Prairie Home Companion
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- Garrison Keillor, folksy voice
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Ira Glass and style of interviewing
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- Reporter for NPR
- Hosted different shows
- Every man style of reporting
- Very confrontational
- Has person actually telling the story
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What was the war of the world’s fiasco?
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- Radio broadcast
- Orsan Wells
- Known for vivid descriptions
- Wasn’t actually happening but was saying there was an alien invasion, so descriptive that people thought it was true even though it wasn’t
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Upton Sinclair
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- Born in Baltimore
- 1904- undercover in Chicago meat packing plants
- The jungle- book based on investigative research that sparked FDA regulations and changes the meat industry
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Backpacking journalism
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- Journalists need to be able to do everything instead of having people do it for you
- Being the jack of all trades
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Muckraking
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- Considered the dirt journalism
- Shows corruption
- Woodward and Bernstein as an example
- Investigative
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Ida Tarbell and Rockefeller story
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- Muckraking journalism
- Exposed corruption with John D. Rockefeller’s bad business with a standard oil company
- Advocate for change
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How did the Penny Press change journalism?
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- Cheaper
- Proximity
- Told stories people would want to read
- First time ads were being used
- objectivity
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Pamphlet Common Sense
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- Written by Thomas Paine
- Presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule
- Largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history
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Define yellow journalism
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- Overly sensational journalism
- Sensationalist journalism
- Like New York post today
- Exaggerated headlines
- Bloody, gory, ridiculous
- Catchy, very bad rhymes
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When did the AP news wire start?
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- 1846
- Started with the co-op of the newspapers
- Covering the Mexican American war.
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Joseph Pullitzer
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- Newspaper publisher
- Introduced new journalism
- Fierce competition with World and New York journal
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Associated Press
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- 1846
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Entertainment Tonight
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1981
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Real World
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1990
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Survivor
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2000
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Osbournes
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2002
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