mass media ch. 7 Flashcards
Penny Papers
(Also penny press) refers to newspapers that, because if technological innovations in printing, we’re able to drop their price to one cent beginning in the 1830s, thereby making papers affordable to working and emerging middle classes and enabling newspapers to become a genuine mass medium.
Partisan Press
An early dominant style of American journalism distinguished by opinion newspapers, which generally argued or political point of view or pushed the plan of the particular party that subsidized the paper.
Human-Interest Stories
News accounts that focus on the trials and tribulations of the human condition, often featuring ordinary individuals faxing extraordinary challenges.
Wire Services
Commercial organizations, such as the Associated Press, that share news stories and information by relaying them around the country and the world, originally via telegraph and now via satellite transmission.
Yellow Journalism
A newspaper style or era that leaked in the 1890s, it emphasized high-interest stories, sensational crime news, large headlines, and serious reports that exposed corruption, particularly in business and government.
Investigative Journalism
News reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly in business and government.
Objective Journalism
A modern style of journalism that distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns; reporters strive to remain neutral toward the issue or event they cover, searching out competing points of view among the sources for a story.
Inverted-Pyramid Style
A style of journalism in which news reports begin with the most dramatic or newsworthy information- answering who, what, where, and when (and less frequently why or how) questions at the top of the story- and then trail off with less significant details.
Interpretive Journalism
A type of journalism that involves analyzing an explaining key issues or events and placing them in a broader historical or social context.
Literary Journalism
News reports that adapt fictional storytelling techniques to nonfictional material; sometime called new journalism.
Consensus-Oriented Journalism
Found in small communities, newspapers that promote social and economic harmony by providing community calendars and meeting notices and carrying articles on local schools, social events, town government, property crimes, and zoning issues.
Conflict-Oriented Journalism
Found in metropolitan areas, newspapers that define news primarily as events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms; journalists see their role as observers who monitor their city’s institutions and problems.
Underground Press
Radical newspapers, run on shoestring budgets, that question mainstream political policies and conventional values; the term usually refers to a journalism movement of the 1960s.
Newshole
The space left over in a newspaper for news content after all the ads are placed.
Feature Syndicates
Commercial outlets or brokers, such as United Features and King Features, that contract with newspapers to provide work from well-known political writers, editorial cartoonists, comic-strip artists, and self-help columnists.
