I’m working on a communications question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
- How did newspapers emerge as a mass medium during the penny press era? How did content changes make this happen?
- What are the two main features of yellow journalism?
- How have Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst contributed to newspaper history?
- Why did “objective” journalism develop? What are its characteristics? What are its strengths and limitations?
- Why did interpretive forms of journalism develop in the modern era? What are the limits of objectivity?
- How would you define literary journalism? Why did it emerge in such an intense way in the 1960s?
- How did literary journalism provide a critique of so-called objective news?
- What is the difference between consensus- and conflict-oriented newspapers?
- Define wire service and syndication. What is a newspaper’s role in a democracy?
- What makes newspaper journalism different from the journalism of other mass media?
- What kinds of stories, topics, or issues are not being covered well by mainstream papers?
- Do newspapers today play a vigorous role as watchdogs of our powerful institutions? Why or why not? What impact will the downsizing and closing of newspapers have on this watchdog role?
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