COM 107 CH 7

Question 0

Penny Papers

Answer 0

Competition of six cent papers; relied on daily street sales of individual copies

Question 1

Partisan Press

Answer 1

Political papers; pushing the plan of a particular political group that subsidized the paper

Question 2

Human-Interest Stories

Answer 2

News accounts that focus on the daily trials and triumphs of the human condition, often featuring ordinary individuals facing extraordinary challenges

Question 3

Wire Services

Answer 3

Commercial organizations that relayed news stories and information around the country and the world using telegraph lines and radio waves and digital transmissions

Question 4

Yellow Journalism

Answer 4

Profitable papers that carried exciting human-interest stories, crime news, large headlines, and more readable copy

Question 5

Investigative Journalism

Answer 5

News reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly in business and governement

Question 6

Objective Journalism

Answer 6

Factual reports rather than opinion columns

Question 7

Inverted-pyramid Style

Answer 7

Stripped of adverbs and adjectives, they begin with the most dramatic or newsworthy information; who, what, when, where at the top of the story

Question 8

Interpretive Journalism

Answer 8

Aims to explain key issues or events and place them in a broader historical or social context

Question 9

Literary Journalism

Answer 9

Fictional techniques, such as descriptive details and settings and extensive character dialogue, to nonfiction material and in-depth reporting

Question 10

Consensus-oriented Journalism

Answer 10

Articles on local schools, social events, town government, property crimes, and zoning issues

Question 11

Conflict-Oriented Journalism

Answer 11

Front-page news is often defined primarily as events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms

Question 12

Underground Press

Answer 12

These papers questioned mainstream political policies and conventional values, often voicing radical opinions

Question 13

Newshole

Answer 13

Space not taken up by ads (35-50%)

Question 14

Feature Syndicates

Answer 14

Commercial outlets that contract with newspapers to provide work from the nation’s best political writers

Question 15

Newspaper Chain

Answer 15

A company that owns several papers throughout the country

Question 16

Joint Operating Agreement (JOA)

Answer 16

Two competing papers keep separate news divisions while merging business and production operations for a period of years

Question 17

Paywall

Answer 17

Charging a fee for online access to news content

Question 18

Citizen Journalism

Answer 18

People, activist amateurs and concerned citizens, not professional journalists, who use the Internet and blogs to disseminate news and information