Chapter 11 - Evolving News

Question 1

Pathé Presents the first news reels in Paris

Answer 1

1909

Question 2

First commercial radio news report given

Answer 2

1920

Question 3

Billmore agreement ends the press-radio war

Answer 3

1933

Question 4

Hindenburg explosion coverage shocks and amazes radio audience

Answer 4

1937

Question 5

First network TV news casts given

Answer 5

1940

Question 6

Radio news covers world war two

Answer 6

1941-1945

Question 7

Coverage of Kennedy and Oswald assassination shows the power in the danger of our new up session with live TV news coverage

Answer 7

1963

Question 8

Newspapers take to the world wide web

Answer 8

1995

Question 9

CNN is founded

Answer 9

1980

Question 10

Jon Stewart voted America’s most trusted newscaster

Answer 10

2009

Question 11

Drudge report breaks the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

Answer 11

1998

Question 12

September 11 attacks are planned for maximum TV coverage

Answer 12

2001

Question 13

Short films (around 10 min. Long about the news of the day) dealing with current events, shown in movie theaters prior to the advent of television

Answer 13

Newsreels

Question 14

Stories about events that are recurrent or long lasting such as floods or other natural disasters

Answer 14

Residual news

Question 15

On-air discussions about the news

Answer 15

Commentaries

Question 16

Happenings that would not have occurred if media were not there to record them

Answer 16

Pseudo events

Question 17

Independent journalists who are paid only for material used

Answer 17

Stringers

Question 18

Longform recorded examination of a social problem or historical subject

Answer 18

Documentary

Question 19

The difference between what a government says in with the public believes to be true

Answer 19

Credibility gap

Question 20

Information that users can access whenever they want

Answer 20

News on demand

Question 21

An experimental system for delivering electronic newspaper so homes via television sets

Answer 21

Video text

Question 22

Early online news services

Answer 22

Bulletin board services (BBSs)

Question 23

Television clips that users can access whenever they want

Answer 23

Video on-demand (VOD)

Question 24

The presentation of information that is timely, important, and interesting to its audience.

Answer 24

News

Question 25

Characteristics that define news, including timeliness, importance, and interest.

Answer 25

News values

Question 26

And angle, or perspective that makes information interesting to the audience.

Answer 26

Peg

Question 27

The primary news reader, who appears in the broadcast news studio.

Answer 27

Anchor

Question 28

Reporting the news with equipment that enables transmission be a satellite.

Answer 28

Satellite news gathering (SNG)

Question 29

Reporting that uses portable field equipment.

Answer 29

Electronic news gathering (ENG)

Question 30

Television correspondence to work alone with the laptop computer and a handheld camera in the field.

Answer 30

BackPack journalists

Question 31

Point of view that is generally purported to be anti-big business, pro-big government, anti-religion, and anti-Republican.

Answer 31

Liberal bias

Question 32

Point of view that is generally purported to be pro-big business, anti-big government, pro religion, and anti—Democrat.

Answer 32

Conservative bias

Question 33

Failure of the news media to report on radical points of view.

Answer 33

Centrist bias

Question 34

A subtle form of slanting that manifests itself and understated Ways

Answer 34

Creeping bias

Question 35

Non-military reporters attached to a military unit.

Answer 35

Embedded Journalists

Question 36

When were news reels replaced by television news?

Answer 36

News reels were replaced by television news in the 1950s.

Question 37

Who broadcasted the results of the 1916 presidential election?

Answer 37

Lee De Forest

Question 38

What was the Biltmore Agreement? Which year? And between which two broadcasting networks?

Answer 38

According to the Biltmore agreement, the radio networks would air only two 5-minute news casts each day. But this only lasted for a year. This agreement was between executives from the Columbia broadcasting system (CBS) & the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in 1933.

Question 39

What kind of audio recording device was known to Americans prior to WW2...

Answer 39

The wire recorder. A device able to capture sound on a thin wire.

Question 40

Who was the first all-news radio station?

Answer 40

KFAX (K-Facts) in 1960. They invented the “newspaper of the air” format by reading the entire newspaper over air for 24 hours a day

Question 41

Which Murrow’s programs became the model for today’s TV newsmagazine programs?

Answer 41

CBC’s 60 Minutes and 20/20

Question 42

In the 1950’s, who produced classic documentaries such as “Harvest of Shame”?

Answer 42

Edward R. Murrow & Fred Friendly

Question 43

When did America witness its first see-it-as-it-happens national news event?

Answer 43

2 days after the assassination of president JFK when Lee Harvey Oswald’s was shot by Jack Ruby (Dallas, night club owner).

Question 44

Who launched CNN in 1980?

Answer 44

Ted Turner launched CNN, the 1st live, 24 hour a day, all-news cable network

Question 45

Fox News started by Roger Ailes as a conservative alternative to what they felt was a liberal CNN in what year?

Answer 45

1997

Question 46

Mead Data Central, for example started Nexis a full tax newspaper database in the year ....

Answer 46

1978

Question 47

What were the first two major papers to go online in 1993?

Answer 47

Two of the first major papers to go online this way were the San Jose Mercury News & the Chicago Tribune both of which were available on AOL in 1993

Question 48

The release of the World Wide Web in _________ made navigation on the Internet easier and encourage many more newspapers to establish online editions.

Answer 48

1993

Question 49

This type of journalism is the act of every day citizens-with a professional journalism training or experience-playing an active role in collecting, reporting, and analyzing the news.

Answer 49

Citizen journalism or participatory journalism

Question 50

What is a whistleblower?

Answer 50

Whistleblower is every citizen who exposes corruption or incompetence.

Question 51

In television news, what are the on-camera partners in the field called?

Answer 51

In television news, the on-camera reporters in the field are known as correspondents. These are the reporters who do on-location stand-ups- segments in which the reporter faces the camera with the news scene in the background.

Question 52

Who is the chair of News Corporation, an international media conglomerate that owns, among many other media properties, major newspapers around the world(most significantly, the Wall Street Journal)....

Answer 52

Rupert Murdoch

Question 53

Examples of Peg and what they mean...

Answer 53

Proximity - the news has something to do with where the audience member works or live Prominence - the news related in some way to someone well known to the audience, perhaps a celebrity in the realm of entertainment, sports, or politics