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Exercise 1-1
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600 Years of Journalism History


After reading the first chapter of your textbook, quiz yourself by matching each of the items below to its description.
1


John Milton's 1644 plea for "unlicensed printing"

2


Coverage of his 1927 flight signaled that radio was entering its Golden Age

3


An organizational tool used for most news reporting in the 20th century

4


His lawyer in 1734 helped define libel as "false, malicious and seditious"

5


Colloquially: looking for dirt (that will make a darn good story)

6


The biggest newspaper in the world in the mid-1800s

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Benjamin Day in 1833 pitched it as part of a concept he called the "mass media"

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The fourth page was left blank, so readers could add their own news

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Imposed higher taxes on printed matter, enraged colonists

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Said: "I was doing fine...until it was necessary to pronounce the words."

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Led to "Blood in the fields, blood on the doorsteps, blood, blood, blood!"

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Reformed yellow journalist who left future journalists a rich legacy

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Ran the first editorial cartoon: "Join, or die"

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Battled Joseph Pulitzer for power and influence

15


Strong comic-strip character from the 1940s

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Led The Massachusetts Spy from nonpartisan to activist for independence

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Reporter at The Daily Planet in the "Superman" comic strip

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Printed lots of bibles in the 1450s

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Began transmitting photos in 1934

20


Launched CNN in 1980

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This newspaper's reporting helped topple President Richard Nixon

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Publisher of The North Star

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The first illustrated American newspaper; debuted in 1857

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Became the first female reporter on a New York paper in 1867

A)"Areopagitica"
B)Isaiah Thomas
C)yellow journalism
D)William Randolph Hearst
E)Charles Lindbergh
F)Publick Occurrences
G)Stamp Act
H)Walter Cronkite
I)John Peter Zenger
J)The Washington Post
K)muckraking
L)New York Herald
M)inverted pyramid
N)Benjamin Franklin
O)Lois Lane
P)Ted Turner
Q)Johann Gutenberg
R)Joseph Pulitzer
S)Brenda Starr
T)penny press
U)Associated Press
V)Harper's Weekly
W)Emily Verdery Bettey
X)Frederick Douglas







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