JR 101 EVALUATION EXAM UPDATED TEST QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Stunt reporting - ✔✔Based on investigation for the sake of improving society.
Invented by Nellie Bly, and paved the way for more women to enter journalism.
✔✔Tabloids - ✔✔Smaller papers with larger type and sensational headlines
✔✔The New York Daily News - ✔✔Highest circulating tabloid in 1914
✔✔Richard Harding Davis - ✔✔Wartime reporter for the New York Herald and the New
York Journal during the Spanish-American war
✔✔Fred Palmer - ✔✔Wartime reporter for AP, accompanied our forces in France
✔✔Espionage Act - ✔✔Law that says newspapers cannot use news stories that may
appear to be helpful to our enemies
✔✔Trading With the Enemies Act - ✔✔Law that prevents selling things that may be
helpful to enemies
✔✔Committe on Public Information - ✔✔First propaganda committee, headed by
George Creel
✔✔Ernie Pyle - ✔✔War correspondent during WWII, worked for Scripps-Howard
newspaper chain, and won a Pulitzer Prize for sending home compelling stories about
his time living with soldiers
✔✔Joseph Rosenthal - ✔✔War correspondent during WWII, photographer for AP, won
a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph, "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"
✔✔Edward R. Murrow - ✔✔"The father of broadcast journalism", covered the London
Blitz and the Korean War, did celebrity interviews, and made a documentary on migrant
labor in Florida
✔✔Media chains - ✔✔Organizations that own more than one media source, eliminating
competition and diversity of opinion
✔✔Freedom's Journal - ✔✔The first African American newspaper in 1827
✔✔Frederick Douglas - ✔✔Published the North Star in 1847, the Frederick Douglas
Paper in 1851, The Douglas Monthly in 1858, and the New Era in 1870
, ✔✔Ida B. Wells - ✔✔Wrote for the Memphis Evening Star and the Memphis Free
Speech, known as the "princess of the press" when she was elected secretary of the
Colored Press Association
✔✔Josephine St. Pier Ruffin - ✔✔Published The Woman's Era, the first African
American women's journal, in Boston, 1890
✔✔Marianne Shadd Cary - ✔✔First African American woman publisher in North
America, published the Provincial Freeman
✔✔Robert Abbott - ✔✔Published The Chicago Defender in 1905, which had to be
smuggled to southern states where circulation was not allowed; persuaded Truman to
desegregate the army
✔✔John H. Johnson - ✔✔Creator of Ebony Magazine and Jet Magazine
✔✔El Mississippi - ✔✔A Latino paper in New Orleans in 1808
✔✔Pedro Gonzalas - ✔✔First American entertainer with an accent, had an
entertainment show on KEWL radio station in 1927
✔✔KOCR San Antonio - ✔✔First Latino-owned radio station in 1946, and later started a
TV station in 1955
✔✔Spanish International Network - ✔✔First Latino TV network, which later became
known as Univision in 1986
✔✔Kung Fu - ✔✔An "asian american" television show featuring a white guy as the
protagonist
✔✔Notable Asian American news anchors - ✔✔Connie Chung, Julie Chen
✔✔Notable Latino news anchors - ✔✔Jorge Ramos, Maria Sanilas
✔✔Cornelia Wells Walter - ✔✔First female editor in America, editor of The Boston
Transcript in 1842
✔✔Mary Baker Eddy - ✔✔First female publisher in America, published the Christian
Science Monitor in 1908
✔✔The Woman's Journal - ✔✔First national newspaper for women, edited by Julia
Ward Howe, in 1870
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Stunt reporting - ✔✔Based on investigation for the sake of improving society.
Invented by Nellie Bly, and paved the way for more women to enter journalism.
✔✔Tabloids - ✔✔Smaller papers with larger type and sensational headlines
✔✔The New York Daily News - ✔✔Highest circulating tabloid in 1914
✔✔Richard Harding Davis - ✔✔Wartime reporter for the New York Herald and the New
York Journal during the Spanish-American war
✔✔Fred Palmer - ✔✔Wartime reporter for AP, accompanied our forces in France
✔✔Espionage Act - ✔✔Law that says newspapers cannot use news stories that may
appear to be helpful to our enemies
✔✔Trading With the Enemies Act - ✔✔Law that prevents selling things that may be
helpful to enemies
✔✔Committe on Public Information - ✔✔First propaganda committee, headed by
George Creel
✔✔Ernie Pyle - ✔✔War correspondent during WWII, worked for Scripps-Howard
newspaper chain, and won a Pulitzer Prize for sending home compelling stories about
his time living with soldiers
✔✔Joseph Rosenthal - ✔✔War correspondent during WWII, photographer for AP, won
a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph, "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"
✔✔Edward R. Murrow - ✔✔"The father of broadcast journalism", covered the London
Blitz and the Korean War, did celebrity interviews, and made a documentary on migrant
labor in Florida
✔✔Media chains - ✔✔Organizations that own more than one media source, eliminating
competition and diversity of opinion
✔✔Freedom's Journal - ✔✔The first African American newspaper in 1827
✔✔Frederick Douglas - ✔✔Published the North Star in 1847, the Frederick Douglas
Paper in 1851, The Douglas Monthly in 1858, and the New Era in 1870
, ✔✔Ida B. Wells - ✔✔Wrote for the Memphis Evening Star and the Memphis Free
Speech, known as the "princess of the press" when she was elected secretary of the
Colored Press Association
✔✔Josephine St. Pier Ruffin - ✔✔Published The Woman's Era, the first African
American women's journal, in Boston, 1890
✔✔Marianne Shadd Cary - ✔✔First African American woman publisher in North
America, published the Provincial Freeman
✔✔Robert Abbott - ✔✔Published The Chicago Defender in 1905, which had to be
smuggled to southern states where circulation was not allowed; persuaded Truman to
desegregate the army
✔✔John H. Johnson - ✔✔Creator of Ebony Magazine and Jet Magazine
✔✔El Mississippi - ✔✔A Latino paper in New Orleans in 1808
✔✔Pedro Gonzalas - ✔✔First American entertainer with an accent, had an
entertainment show on KEWL radio station in 1927
✔✔KOCR San Antonio - ✔✔First Latino-owned radio station in 1946, and later started a
TV station in 1955
✔✔Spanish International Network - ✔✔First Latino TV network, which later became
known as Univision in 1986
✔✔Kung Fu - ✔✔An "asian american" television show featuring a white guy as the
protagonist
✔✔Notable Asian American news anchors - ✔✔Connie Chung, Julie Chen
✔✔Notable Latino news anchors - ✔✔Jorge Ramos, Maria Sanilas
✔✔Cornelia Wells Walter - ✔✔First female editor in America, editor of The Boston
Transcript in 1842
✔✔Mary Baker Eddy - ✔✔First female publisher in America, published the Christian
Science Monitor in 1908
✔✔The Woman's Journal - ✔✔First national newspaper for women, edited by Julia
Ward Howe, in 1870
