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Kovach's Principles of Journalism #1: - correct answer ✔✔Truth (seek & report it)
Kovach's Principles of Journalism #2: - correct answer ✔✔Loyalty (to citizens/audience)
Kovach's Principles of Journalism #3: - correct answer ✔✔Discipline of Verification (must verify facts)
Kovach #4: - correct answer ✔✔Independence from Faction (must be independent from those they
cover)
Kovach #5: - correct answer ✔✔Monitor Power (hold the powerful accountable; watchdog role)
Kovach #6: - correct answer ✔✔Public Forum (must provide it)
Kovach #7: - correct answer ✔✔Make the Significant Interesting & Relevant
Kovach #8: - correct answer ✔✔Comprehensive & Proportional (no targeted demographics)
Kovach #9: - correct answer ✔✔Obligation to Exercise Personal Conscience
What is the SPJ? - correct answer ✔✔The Society of Professional Journalists
What is News? - correct answer ✔✔-New
-Truth
-Info that affects or impacts a group of people
,What is Journalism? - correct answer ✔✔- The act or process of accurately gathering, filtering, &
reporting the news.
- The means of spreading information/the system societies create to supply news.
- Key to succeeding, as a journalist today, is to see news from a digital perspective.
- Not the system, but the process/action.
- A free flow of information
- A "press" first evolved more than 300 years ago
Theory of The Interlocking Public: - correct answer ✔✔Involved public, interested public, uninterested
public
Involved Public - correct answer ✔✔o Personal interest in the issue.
o Strong understanding of the issue.
Interested Public - correct answer ✔✔o No direct role in the issue.
o Affected by issue.
o Respond with firsthand experience.
Uninterested Public - correct answer ✔✔o Pays little attention.
o Will join in dissent if issues are laid out by others.
What's the Purpose of Journalism? - correct answer ✔✔- To provide citizens with the information they
need to be free & self-governing.
- Central Purpose: To tell the truth so people have the info they need to be sovereign.
- Without journalists acting as watchdogs, the politicians wouldn't be held accountable.
Watergate - correct answer ✔✔- President Nixon was running for re-election
- Members of CREEP (Committee for the Re-election of the President) snuck into the DNC headquarters
and placed wire-taps
- Nixon's administration tried to cover it up
,- Taped recordings in Nixon's office revealed evidence of the cover-up
-Claimed it was all under Executive Privilege & he wouldn't have to hand over the tapes.
- The Supreme Court disagreed & he was forced to hand them over.
- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein: Washington Post journalists covered the scandal (they're famous for
breaking the story)
- Ford (Nixon's VP; VP after Spiro Agnew→ corrupt) became president after Nixon.
- Nixon resigned because Woodward & Bernstein did the hard work of journalism (shoe leather
journalism→ listened to hours of recording, interviewed tons of people) & exposed the Nixon scandal,
holding the powerful accountable.
Democracies:
-Lots of journalism because information = power.
- Democracies & journalism have a mutual dependency; one can't survive without the other.
- Societies that want to suppress freedom must 1st suppress journalism. - correct answer ✔✔...
Andrea Seabrook: NPR journalist who quit her job as a Capitol Hill reporter because she got tired of
constantly being lied to by politicians rather than reporting & uncovering information - correct answer
✔✔...
Rupert Murdoch: FOX News; News Corp; The Sun; company hacked into voicemail of royals &
government officials in Great Britain→got into big trouble. - correct answer ✔✔...
Convergence:
-All media is sort of blended together.
- The Internet has allowed this to take place.
- Print + Radio + TV. - correct answer ✔✔...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC):
-Regulates radio frequencies & TV.
- Doesn't regulate cable & satellite.
- Broadcasters must provide a public service.
, - The public owns the airwaves. - correct answer ✔✔...
The Web:
- Impossible to compete with.
- 1st used by U.S. Defense Dept.
- Invented in 1990s.
- Combines abilities of print, TV, radio.
- Can access it anytime.
- Can do everything the basic forms of media do & more. - correct answer ✔✔...
Online:
-Continuous deadline.
- Illusion is no deadlines.
- Open all the time.
- Web needs information right now. - correct answer ✔✔...
- eEdition Newspapers: Internet version of newspapers; exact layout of a real/tangible newspaper; fewer
people are reading newspapers & eEdition newspapers; news business is trying to hold on & control
audience, but it's not working. - correct answer ✔✔...
Reputation is key in Journalism (important for individual journalists and organizations) - correct answer
✔✔...
Some news organizations believe newspapers = journalism & as the newspapers die, journalism is dying;
not the case because journalism is the act of gathering & delivering news, it does not have to be done
with newspapers, necessarily. - correct answer ✔✔...
- The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, & Wall Street Journal are still going strong in terms
of sales. - correct answer ✔✔...
The Business of News - correct answer ✔✔News Stations:
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