Chapter 1

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Partisan Press

Early American newspapers that aligned themselves with one political party. This was common place during the Revolutionary period.

Penny Press

Newspapers from the mid-19th centuary, that were filled with news and read by a mass audience, included advertising, and sold for a penny

Wire Service

A service that provides, for a fee, news from around the world to publications that suscribe to it.

Yellow Journalism

A sensational brand of journalism given to hoaxes, altered photographers screaming headlines,frauds,and endless promotions of the newspapers

Muckraking

Journalism that crusades for social justice or to expose wrongdoing

Shock Jock

A radio disk jockey who entertains his or her audience by using outregeous, often vulgar or offensive things about people or situations

Global Village

The concept, so named by marshall McLuhan of the world as having become a more tightly interrelated community because of simulations

Computer- assisted reporting

The use of various news database and other resourcess on the internet to facilitate the gathering of certain kinds of news information