Intro to Broadcast & American Journalism History

What is Journalism?

• Collecting and presenting information to the public

• News reporting presented electronically or by radio.

• Collecting news to present to the public.

• All the above

Examples of Broadcast are:

• Internet, Radio, Podcast

• Television, social media, and Internet

• Social media and Podcast

• Podcast, Internet, social media, Television, and Radio

True or False: Broadcast Journalism is different from Print Journalism because it is less informal than printed news.

• True

• False

True or False: Broadcast Journalism is different from Print Journalism because it is with internet and social media.

• True

• False

The radio was invented in:

• 1750

• 1800s

• 1950

• 1900s

Who was sent to Germany to report the ongoing events and news in 1937?

• Edward R. Murrow

• Reginald Fessenden

• Nikola Tesla

• None of the above

True or False: News articles are often sensationalized to entice people to "click".

• True

• False

True or False: News reporters have moral and unethical responsibility to produce unreliable, subjective, and accurate reports of events.

• True

• False

True or False: As news consumers who are at least now aware of how quickly misinformation can spread, it is our responsibility to share only accurate information.

• True

• False

True or False: Following the war, people continued to tune into the radio and eventually the radio to listen to the news.

• True

• False