Exam 11: Evolving Journalism: News in a Digital Age

A personalized ______ service collects only information identified as being of interest to a client.

Radio audiences could hear live reports of Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939.

News is the presentation of information that is timely, important and interesting to its audience.

Embedded journalists during the war in Iraq were considered a semi-official part of the military.

Headlines can be delivered to cell phones through RRS.

Examples of news as entertainment include

Match the date to the event. -First network TV newscasts

Match the news peg with the example -News event relates to someone well-known

On-air discussions about the news are called ______.

Match the title with the job description. -Behind-the-scenes, off-screen reporter

Online news first appeared

A centrist bias refers to the mainstream mass media not reporting on radical points of view.

The first live, 24-hour-a-day all-news cable network was

Critics contend that the mixing of news and _______ can be seen in the way television news promotes its newscasts and uses fearsome teasers.

Videotape freed television from its reliance on film in the mid-1970s.

The credibility ______ is the difference between what a government says and what the public believes to be true.

Name and describe the three news values. Give an example of each from the textbook or from your own personal experience.

A/An ______ is a long-form recorded examination of a social problem or historical subject.

What is residual news, and why was it featured so prominently in newsreels? What is an example of a current residual news story?

Match the title with the job description. -Ratings specialist