MAS 101 EXAM 3 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Newsholes - CORRECT ANSWER - Space not taken up by ads in a newspaper
News Desert - CORRECT ANSWER - county/area without a local newspaper
Citizen Journalism - CORRECT ANSWER - news reported and distributed by citizens,
rather than professional journalists and for-profit news organizations
Blogs - CORRECT ANSWER - online journals where people and companies post their
thoughts and other content, usually related to narrowly defined topics
Zenger Trial of 1735 - CORRECT ANSWER - debated the right of the press to criticize
public officials (prefiguring the first amendment)
Partisan Press - CORRECT ANSWER - newspapers were funded by printing contracts
which were often given by political office holders (1700s)
Penny Press - CORRECT ANSWER - 1830s Newspapers that, because of technological
innovations in printing, were able to drop their price to one cent, therefore making papers
affordable to the working and middle classes and enabling newspapers to become a genuine mass
medium
The New York Sun (1833)
New York morning herald 91835)
Associated Press - CORRECT ANSWER - Newspaper publishers from around the nation
formed this to promote cooperative news gathering by wire
, The New York Times - CORRECT ANSWER - 1896
The Inverted Pyramid - CORRECT ANSWER - who, what, where, when (and sometimes
why or how) in the first sentence
Most important, less important, nice to know
John Dewey vs. Walter Lippman - CORRECT ANSWER - John Dewey: the public and its
problems (1927)
Walter Lippman: public opinion (1922)
Yellow Journalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Journalism that exploits, distorts, or
exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers
Commercial Press - CORRECT ANSWER - Sold papers individually or by contract
(1700s)
Wire Service - CORRECT ANSWER - First wire service was the Associated Press in 1846
News organizations that provided news to newspapers for a fee originally by telegraph
Nellie Bly - CORRECT ANSWER - *muckraking* United States journalist who exposed
bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)
Decline of Newspapers - CORRECT ANSWER - Blogs challenge newspapers' authority
online
rise of blogs in 1990s (credibility and readership)
Origins of "Magazine" - CORRECT ANSWER - comes from the French term magasin,
meaning storehouse
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Newsholes - CORRECT ANSWER - Space not taken up by ads in a newspaper
News Desert - CORRECT ANSWER - county/area without a local newspaper
Citizen Journalism - CORRECT ANSWER - news reported and distributed by citizens,
rather than professional journalists and for-profit news organizations
Blogs - CORRECT ANSWER - online journals where people and companies post their
thoughts and other content, usually related to narrowly defined topics
Zenger Trial of 1735 - CORRECT ANSWER - debated the right of the press to criticize
public officials (prefiguring the first amendment)
Partisan Press - CORRECT ANSWER - newspapers were funded by printing contracts
which were often given by political office holders (1700s)
Penny Press - CORRECT ANSWER - 1830s Newspapers that, because of technological
innovations in printing, were able to drop their price to one cent, therefore making papers
affordable to the working and middle classes and enabling newspapers to become a genuine mass
medium
The New York Sun (1833)
New York morning herald 91835)
Associated Press - CORRECT ANSWER - Newspaper publishers from around the nation
formed this to promote cooperative news gathering by wire
, The New York Times - CORRECT ANSWER - 1896
The Inverted Pyramid - CORRECT ANSWER - who, what, where, when (and sometimes
why or how) in the first sentence
Most important, less important, nice to know
John Dewey vs. Walter Lippman - CORRECT ANSWER - John Dewey: the public and its
problems (1927)
Walter Lippman: public opinion (1922)
Yellow Journalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Journalism that exploits, distorts, or
exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers
Commercial Press - CORRECT ANSWER - Sold papers individually or by contract
(1700s)
Wire Service - CORRECT ANSWER - First wire service was the Associated Press in 1846
News organizations that provided news to newspapers for a fee originally by telegraph
Nellie Bly - CORRECT ANSWER - *muckraking* United States journalist who exposed
bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)
Decline of Newspapers - CORRECT ANSWER - Blogs challenge newspapers' authority
online
rise of blogs in 1990s (credibility and readership)
Origins of "Magazine" - CORRECT ANSWER - comes from the French term magasin,
meaning storehouse
