JLMC 101 - Exam 2: Chapter 8 Multiple
Choice well answered to pass
Penny press newspapers... - correct answer ✔✔Increased news readership, switched to less
partisan tilt for wider advert range.
Which of the following eras of journalism best represents the historical arrival of newspapers as
a mass medium? - correct answer ✔✔The penny press era.
Yellow Journalism is... - correct answer ✔✔Sensational, overly dramatic, the root of
investigative journalism.
The two publishers most associated with yellow journalism in the late 1800s were... - correct
answer ✔✔Pulitzer & Hearst
Modern journalism started to develop in the nineteenth century mainly because newspapers... -
correct answer ✔✔Focus on objectivity/inverted pyramid.
Select the correct historical order among the following major eras in journalism history. - correct
answer ✔✔Yellow, investigative, objective, interpretive, literary, contemporary
(consensus/conflict).
Name the publication most closely associated with the rise of modern journalism. - correct
answer ✔✔The New York Times
Objective journalism as championed by Adolph Ochs and the New York Times was particularly
good at... - correct answer ✔✔Focusing on "just the facts" and balanced reporting
Choice well answered to pass
Penny press newspapers... - correct answer ✔✔Increased news readership, switched to less
partisan tilt for wider advert range.
Which of the following eras of journalism best represents the historical arrival of newspapers as
a mass medium? - correct answer ✔✔The penny press era.
Yellow Journalism is... - correct answer ✔✔Sensational, overly dramatic, the root of
investigative journalism.
The two publishers most associated with yellow journalism in the late 1800s were... - correct
answer ✔✔Pulitzer & Hearst
Modern journalism started to develop in the nineteenth century mainly because newspapers... -
correct answer ✔✔Focus on objectivity/inverted pyramid.
Select the correct historical order among the following major eras in journalism history. - correct
answer ✔✔Yellow, investigative, objective, interpretive, literary, contemporary
(consensus/conflict).
Name the publication most closely associated with the rise of modern journalism. - correct
answer ✔✔The New York Times
Objective journalism as championed by Adolph Ochs and the New York Times was particularly
good at... - correct answer ✔✔Focusing on "just the facts" and balanced reporting
