Journalism Flashcards
(15 cards)
A word derived from the Latin diurnal, meaning daily; it is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information.
Journalism
What are the journalistic sources?
Newspaper, Magazine, Television New, Internet Communications
The oldest and most traditional format for journalistic sources; regularly scheduled publications containing news, articles, features, and advertising.
Newspaper
A type of publication that usually takes a much more relaxed format than newspapers, with a more informal writing style.
Magazine
A term for news broadcasting, which includes radio.
Television News Journalism
A journalistic source for information found on the internet.
Internet Communications
What are the two concepts of balanced reporting?
lack of bias and ethical imperative
The concept of being impartial, objective, just, and unprejudiced in reporting.
Lack of Bias
The concept that morality is being observed in reporting.
Ethical Imperative
What are the killers of balanced reporting?
Yellow Journalism, Editorializing Content, Stylistic Journalism, and New Journalism
A type of journalism that uses sensationalized headlines, sensationalism, and exaggeration to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
The act of inserting one’s own opinion or personal attacks into reporting.
Editorializing Content
A genre of journalism that combines reporting with a personal point of view, aiming to create, motivate, or change something.
Advocacy Journalism
Also known as literary journalism, this non-fiction style is experiential and literary, employing techniques based on the reporter’s inner voice.
Stylistic Journalism
A journalism style from the 1960s-70s, similar to literary journalism, that combines factual reporting with narrative techniques, is associated with the “nonfiction novel,” and is written in the 3rd person.
New Journalism
