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Understanding Journalism: A Quiz on Media Practices and History

This quiz tests your knowledge of journalism, including its history, key figures, and current challenges in the media landscape.

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1 ________, owners and other corporate executives, especially advertising sales executives, can try to use their powers over journalists to influence how news is reported and published.

2 Tom Wolfe, ________, Hunter S. Thompson are some of these examples.

3 ________, on the other hand, is considered a good example of mixing straight news reporting, features, and combinations of the two, usually meeting standards of high quality.

4 In the ________, there has never been a right to protect sources in a federal court.

5 Johann Carolus's Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 in ________, is often recognized as the first newspaper.

6 In the 1920s, as modern journalism was just taking form, writer Walter Lippmann and American philosopher ________ debated over the role of journalism in a democracy.

7 But the role of and status of journalism, along with other forms of mass media, are undergoing changes resulting from the ________, especially Web 2.0.

8 Newspapers and periodicals often contain features (see ________) written by journalists, many of whom specialize in this form.

9 CNN correspondent ________ also complained of self-censorship during the invasion of Iraq due to the fear of alienating key audiences in the US.

10 ________ is a growing problem in journalism, particularly in covering countries that sharply restrict press freedom.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • courses in bioethics and journalism are a part of the academic curriculum of The Pontifical Academy of Theology (pictured) in Kraków, Poland.
  • many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources.
  • the journalistic practice of muckraking began at McClure's magazine.
  • the Sunday Magazine Editors Association gives out journalism awards recognizing work in writing, investigative journalism, and design in Sunday newspaper magazines.
  • Webb Miller, whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton.
  • Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  • Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s, with dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov.
  • Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press.
  • Guri Hjeltnes, though a professor of journalism, has mainly concentrated on Norwegian World War II history during her academic career.
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a classically trained pianist who attended, but never graduated from, the Juilliard School.
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