JLMC 101 Exam 1 questions and
answers graded A+ updated
Colonial Newspapers - correct answer ✔✔Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)
New-York Weekly Journal (1733)
Two general types of newspapers•
Political Partisan press: Pushed the plan of the particular political group that subsidized the
paper•
Commercial Served business leaders•
Readership primarily confined to educated or wealthy men.
Women trailblazers•Elizabeth Timothy, South Carolina Gazette,1738, first female newspaper
publisher•Anna Maul Zenger ran the New-York Weekly Journal during her husbands trail and
after his death in 1746.
Associated Press - correct answer ✔✔Part of Penny Press era.
Founded by six New York newspapers in 1848•
W ire service: Commercial organizations that relayed news stories and information•
Telegraph lines across the country and world•Later used radio waves and digital transmissions
Yellow Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Profitable papers that carried exciting human-interest
stories, crime news, large headlines, etc.•Overly dramatic stories and early in-depth "detective"
stories•Investigative journalism: News reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly
in business and government• Examples: New York World and New York Journal
, Objectivity in Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Adolph Ochs and the New York Times•Distanced
itself from yellow journalism•Focused on documenting major events•More affluent
readership•Lowered the price to a penny to attract middle-class readers.
Objective journalism: Distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns•Maintain neutral
attitude toward issue or event•Search out competing points of view among sources•Inverted-
pyramid style: Story form for packaging and presenting objective reporting•Answers who, what,
where, when (sometimes why and how) at top•Less significant details at bottom•Has come
under increasing scrutiny.
OBJECTIVITY IN JOURNALISM: Criticized for only reporting undeniable facts and too trusting and
uncritical of the powerful•Responses•Advocacy journalism-a particular viewpoint is
promoted•Precision journalism-scientific accuracy with polling and survey data.
USA Today's impact on modern newspapers - correct answer ✔✔USA Today•Used color and
designed vending boxes to look like TVs•Mimicked broadcast news in the use of brief news
items•
Online journalism redefines news•Replaced the morning newspaper•Speeds up the news
cycle•Nontraditional sources shape stories
Consensus-Oriented Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Consensus-oriented journalism: Stories on
local schools, social events, town government, property crimes, and zoning issues•Smaller non-
daily newspapers•Provided community calendars and meeting notices•Careful not to offend
local advertisers
Conflict-oriented Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Conflict-oriented journalism: Front-page news
defined as events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms•National and metro
dailies•Journalists as neutral fact-gatherers and observers monitoring their city's institutions
and problems
Newshole and News Operation - correct answer ✔✔Newshole: Space not taken up by ads in a
newspaper•Makes up 35 to 50% of paper•Shrank substantially by 2010
Newspaper Operations: Newsroom staff•Publisher and owner•Editors and assistant
editors•Reporters
answers graded A+ updated
Colonial Newspapers - correct answer ✔✔Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)
New-York Weekly Journal (1733)
Two general types of newspapers•
Political Partisan press: Pushed the plan of the particular political group that subsidized the
paper•
Commercial Served business leaders•
Readership primarily confined to educated or wealthy men.
Women trailblazers•Elizabeth Timothy, South Carolina Gazette,1738, first female newspaper
publisher•Anna Maul Zenger ran the New-York Weekly Journal during her husbands trail and
after his death in 1746.
Associated Press - correct answer ✔✔Part of Penny Press era.
Founded by six New York newspapers in 1848•
W ire service: Commercial organizations that relayed news stories and information•
Telegraph lines across the country and world•Later used radio waves and digital transmissions
Yellow Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Profitable papers that carried exciting human-interest
stories, crime news, large headlines, etc.•Overly dramatic stories and early in-depth "detective"
stories•Investigative journalism: News reports that hunt out and expose corruption, particularly
in business and government• Examples: New York World and New York Journal
, Objectivity in Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Adolph Ochs and the New York Times•Distanced
itself from yellow journalism•Focused on documenting major events•More affluent
readership•Lowered the price to a penny to attract middle-class readers.
Objective journalism: Distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns•Maintain neutral
attitude toward issue or event•Search out competing points of view among sources•Inverted-
pyramid style: Story form for packaging and presenting objective reporting•Answers who, what,
where, when (sometimes why and how) at top•Less significant details at bottom•Has come
under increasing scrutiny.
OBJECTIVITY IN JOURNALISM: Criticized for only reporting undeniable facts and too trusting and
uncritical of the powerful•Responses•Advocacy journalism-a particular viewpoint is
promoted•Precision journalism-scientific accuracy with polling and survey data.
USA Today's impact on modern newspapers - correct answer ✔✔USA Today•Used color and
designed vending boxes to look like TVs•Mimicked broadcast news in the use of brief news
items•
Online journalism redefines news•Replaced the morning newspaper•Speeds up the news
cycle•Nontraditional sources shape stories
Consensus-Oriented Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Consensus-oriented journalism: Stories on
local schools, social events, town government, property crimes, and zoning issues•Smaller non-
daily newspapers•Provided community calendars and meeting notices•Careful not to offend
local advertisers
Conflict-oriented Journalism - correct answer ✔✔Conflict-oriented journalism: Front-page news
defined as events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms•National and metro
dailies•Journalists as neutral fact-gatherers and observers monitoring their city's institutions
and problems
Newshole and News Operation - correct answer ✔✔Newshole: Space not taken up by ads in a
newspaper•Makes up 35 to 50% of paper•Shrank substantially by 2010
Newspaper Operations: Newsroom staff•Publisher and owner•Editors and assistant
editors•Reporters
