Newspaper Vocabulary
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- Partisan Press
- Early dominate style of American journalism that argued on political point of view or pushed plan of a particular party
- Penny Papers
- Newspapers, that becuase of technological advances, were able to drop prices to one cent, making papers affordable to working and emerging middle classes and making newspapers become a genuine mass media
- Human Interest Stories
- News accounts that focus on the trails and tribulations of the human condition
- Wire Service
- Commericial organizations that relayed news stories and information around the country and world using telegraph, and later radio waves and digital transmission
- Yellow Journalism
- A newspaper era that peeked in the 1890's. It emphasized high-interest stories, sensational crime news, large headlines, and serious reports that exposed corruption, particularily in business and government
- Objective Journalism
- Distinguishes factual reports from opinion columns
- Interpretive Journalism
- Explains key issues or events and place them in the broader historical or social context
- Advocacy Journalism
- Approach in which the reporter actively promotes a particular cause of viewpoints
- Precision Journalism
- Pushing news in the direction of science, such as using surveys, polls, and questionaires
- Literary Journalism
- Adapted financial storytelling techniques to non-fiction material and in-depth reporting
- Consensus-oriented Journalism
- Public interest stories such as social events, property crimes, town governement, etc.
- Conflict-oriented Journalism
- Events, issues, or experiences that deviate from social norms
- Feature Syndicates
- Commercial outlets that contrast with newspapers to provide work from the nations best political writings, cartoonists, etc.
- Newspaper Chains
- Companies that own several papers throughout the country