JOMC 101 (Princ Mass Media) Exam 3
What magazine was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and is currently the official magazine of the NAACP?
Crisis
What is deliberative democracy?
A system in which citizen groups, local govt, and the news media work together to shape social and political agendas
What was the first women's magazine? Who was it founded by?
Ladies Magazine; Sarah Josepha Hale
Which magazine can be credited for advancing photojournalism the most in the early 20th century?
Life
Which alternative magazine is published for readers who support the political Left?
Nation and Progressive
What was the first U.S. tabloid
National Enquirer
What was the first U.S. press baron and biggest newspaper in the world (at the time)?
New York Morning Herald
What was the first penny paper?
New York Sun
What did Adolph Ochs buy?
New York Times
What is considered an elite magazine
New Yorker
What was the 1st city magazine aimed at a national audience?
New Yorker
How much of the total newspaper circulation in the U.S. was controlled by the top ten newspapers?
Over 50%
What was the most popular magazine in the world in the mid 1980s
Reader's Digest
What is an advantage of online news?
Readers and viewers no longer have to wait until the next publication or broadcast for updates on stories
Why were circulations so low in the early days of colonial papers
Readership was limited to wealthy and educated men
What was the first political magazine?
Review (London, 1704)
What show do the Daily Show and Last Week Tonight follow in the tradition of?
SNL
What was the 1st magazine to publish a column that directly addressed women's issues?
Saturday Evening Post
What was the first magazine to reach 2 million in circulation
Saturday Evening Post
What did the success of TV guide underscore the power of?
TV
How has cable transformed TV news?
TV news is often recast as a partisan vehicle for opinions
Who first coined the term muckraking
Teddy Roosevelt
What historical movement benefited from televised news documenting it
The Civil Rights Movement
Viewers of what satirical news show tend to better-informed than other news viewers?
The Daily Show
What did the "op-ed" page develop as a result of?
The Korean War, the U.S. anticommunist movement, the invention of TV
WHAt was the longest running magazine?
The Saturday Evening
Why did many more middle-class readers begin buying the New York Times?
They could afford it and it imparted a certain status
Why did more newspapers begin to strive for impartially in their news coverage
They found they could attract more readers that way and they began to serve more clients in different geographic regions
What does the Conde Nast group own?
Vanity Fair, GQ, and Vogue
How can interpretive journalism be described as?
a style that seeks to place events within a larger historical or social context
News stories about issues that could affect a family's income or change a community's laws are stories of____
consequence
What is seditious libel
defaming a public official's character in print
What does community/public journalism aim to reinvigorate?
deliberative democracy
What do production costs to publish a magazine include?
design and layout, paper, and printing
Judging other countries and cultures on the basis of how "they live up to or intimate American practices and values" is known as
ethnocentrism
What does a news story about the increased use of instant messaging by teen in Brazil written by an american reporter demonstrate?
ethnocentrism
What are the elements of yellow journalism?
exciting human interest stories, crime news, big headlines
What are magazines that merge into larger chains able to do?
extend their reach and attract new customers, lower their development/production/and sales and marketing costs, and generate more revenues
What are magazines the merge into larger chains able to do?
extend their reach and attract new customers, lower their development/production/and sales and marketing costs, and generate more revenues
What kind of companies are brokers that distribute content like columns, comic strips, and crossword puzzles
features syndicates
How is a freelance write often paid for a magazine article
flat fee or honorarium
What did women's magazines need to do in the 1970s to continue to attract readers?
include stories on careers outside the home and feature stories that addressed women's sexuality
What factors contributed to the demand for national magazines in the late 1800s?
increases in public education, advances making printing technologies faster, improvements in mail delivery
What value's stories often fail to analyze the role of large social organization and institutions in individual and personal achievements?
individualism
What type of journalism aims to explain the ramifications of key issues by placing them in broader context?
interpretive journalism
What kind of journalistic style begins with the most noteworthy or dramatic information before narrowing the account down with less significant details?
inverted pyramid
What best defines objective journalism
it distinguishes between reports and opinions
How did National Geographic remain profitable when its magazine started to lose circulation in the 90s?
it entered the media ventures like TV specials
What is true about public journalism?
it involves citizens more centrally in civic and political life, it focuses on issues more important to the community, it involves journalists more centrally in civic and political life
How did the Postal Act of 1879 benefit magazine publishers?
it lowered the postage rates
What can the dominance of newspaper chains lead to?
journalists unable to meet the information needs of local communities
What did the Postal Act of 1879 do?
lowered postage rates
How many magazines are published in the U.S. annually?
more than 20,000
What investigative journalism is designed to expose wrongdoing known as?
muckraking
What is one of the most prominent values in American journalism
neutrality
What type takes a more "scientific" attitude to news reporting?
objective journalism
What is not uncommon for print magazines to do?
offer audio podcasts to accompany articles, create an online social-networking feature for its readers, and provide interactive features online
What is the fastest-growing age bracket?
over 50
How are newspapers trying to boost their income?
paywalls
What the story-driven model of journalism commonly followed by?
penny papers and yellow press
What is the use of photos in magazines to document the rhythms of everyday life?
photojournalism
What is yellow journalism/what did it do?
provided the start of investigative journalism, was the forerunner of today's tabloids, is often associated with sensationalism
What value is evidenced by reporters when they assume that business people compete with one another to create increased prosperity for all
responsible capitalism
Favoring the small over the large and the rural over the urban is also known as
small-town pastoralism
What type of special magazine edition includes a few pages of ads purchased by local or regional companies
split-run
What are magazines in colonial America credited with?
spreading political ideas that ultimately led to the revolution
What does the French term "magasin" mean?
storehouse
What is a fear about citizen journalism
that members of the public will lack education, training and experience in the area of reporting
What was the first major wire service
the AP
What is a problem introduced by online journalism
the demands placed on reporters
What change brought about the 24/7 news cycle
the introduction of cable news
What is a shortcoming of more visually oriented TV news?
the intrusiveness of televised ads, the fixed length of a news broadcast, emphasizing imagery over neutrality
How are magazines different from newspapers?
they are published on a nondaily cycle and employ a tabloid style
What is no longer true about magazines in the US
they provide a powerful national voice, they unite communities around important social issues, and they foster a strong national identity
How many cities in the U.S. currently have more than one independent, competing paper?
under 15
What is the newshole?
what remains after the ad dept places the ads in the paper
What are journalists expected to do as part of their jobs following the digital turn?
write news stories, post digital videos, use social media like Twitter or blogs
How many weekly newspapers did the US have in 1840?
1140
When did photojournalism emerge as a new profession?
1890s
When did U.S. newspapers begin providing more interpretive journalism?
1950s, with the development of atomic power and the outbreak of the Korean War
When did the idea of specialty magazines first gain popularity in the US
19th century
How much advertising copy does the average magazine contain
50%
What percentage of magazine sales to subscriptions account for?
88%
During what time period did general-interest magazines become the most prominent form of magazine?
After WWI
What department provides all the content for a magazine including ads
Editorial
Who made a name for himself through WWII reporting and later his TV program See It Now?
Edward R. Murrow
What kind of subscriptions automatically renew on a credit card?
Evergreen
Which figure tapped the potential of broadcasting with his famous "fireside chats" on the radio?
Franklin Roosevelt
What was the 1st publication to use the term magazine in its title?
Gentleman's Magazine
What were the early types of newspapers?
Partisan Press and commercial shipping news
What was one of the first newspapers to make money by printing advertisements
Pennsylvania Gazette
What is a convention of journalistic neutrality?
Presenting the most important information first
What was the first colonial newspaper/who owned it/when?
Publick Occurrences, Benjamin Harris, 1690
Whose fights were related to yellow journalism?
Pulitzer and Hearst
What reforms were caused by muckrakers
Pure and Food Drug Act (1906), Meat Inspiration Act (1906), increased oversight of business, progressive income tax, direct election of U.S. Senators
What does the inverted pyramid style of reporting begin with
Who, what, when, where, and why or how (the most newsworthy info)
