Lindsey SellmanDecember 3, 2014 MAC Extra Credit #8 1. Human-interest stories are news stories that focus on daily life of humans’ and how they are doing in relation to the world. These stories usually focus on people facing odd or extraordinary challenges.2. Human-interest stories relate to the chapter because the chapter talks about newspapers and the rise of modern journalism, and this is a popular method of journalism in newspapers today. This is a key term because it is a hook in newspapers that get people to read them everyday and keep interest in following them. 3. Focuses on daily life of people, type of literary tradition that keeps people interested in readings newspapers everyday, and crime stories as an example. 4. Penny papers are papers that through subscription could be the “preferred newspaper sales tool”, in which relied on the daily street sales of individual copies. Human-interest stories were in these daily papers as they were a tool to get people to keep buying the penny papers. 5. An example could be an article about the status of the obesity epidemic in America. 1. Which type of newspaper used human-interest stories first? a. The New York Sun b. The New York Weekly Journal c. The New York Morning Herald d. The Publick Occurrences e. The Village Voice 2. What types of stories are used in human-interest stories?a. Crime stories b. Stories about the economy c. A biography of a journalist d. A story about a firefighter saving a child from a burning house e. A, B, D 3. In what ways do human-interest stories affect newspapers now? a. Grabbing attention of readersb. Make newspapers focus on stories that people want to hear c. Stories that make national headlines appear as a hook d. Newspapers sell bettere. All of the above 4. Which is an example of a human-interest story?a. Story of a cat being saved by a firefighter b. Story of the newspaper editor’s life c. Story of the newspaper’s founding d. Story of a crime mystery in a rural town e. A & D5. Who founded the New York Sun?a. Benjamin Dayb. James Gordon c. John Peter Zengerd. Benjamin Harris e. Bob Woodward 1. Yellow journalism is a concept of profitable papers carrying exciting human-interest stories, crime news, large headlines, and more stories that readers find interesting. 2. This concept has significance to the chapter as it talks about a concept of making newspapers more profitable, as the chapter talks about how the media of newspapers emerged and became more popular. This is a key concept as it shows how newspapers found ways to be successful and make money off of their papers using techniques that readers found interesting. 3. Profitable way of publishing papers, interesting headlines, and more readable. 4. The term is related to human-interest stories as they discuss things that readers findentertaining, and yellow journalism took that idea and put them into papers that were about Hollywood and its drama. 5. A tabloid in the grocery store that has a headline about a celebrity scandal. 1. When did the concept of Yellow Journalism begin? a. Early 1800’s b. Mid 1800’s c. Late 1800’s d. Early 1900’se. 21st century 2. What is an example of yellow journalism? a. Access Hollywood b. E! News c. Local news d. Tabloids e. A, B, C 3. Who started the newspaper circulation war that started with the “The Yellow Kid” cartoon? a. William Randolph Hearst b. Thomas Edison c. Joseph Pullitzer d. R.F. Outcault e. Benjamin Day 4. What triggered the rise of Yellow Journalism? a. Marketing of newspapers b. Media journalists wanting to inform citizens of Hollywood news c. Rise of mass culture d. Rise of media dominating newspapers e. All of the above 5. How did investigative journalism affect Yellow Journalism? a. Exposed corruption in business and government b. Helped them economically c. Banned certain press d. Provided a “watchdog” rolee. A, B, D1. Investigative Journalism are news reports that hunt and expose corruption, especially in business and government. 2. This concept relates to the chapter, as the chapter is talking about how media in newspapers emerged and the issues that followed that. This is a key concept because it explains how news reports started to affect opinion and expose issues that the public may have not known before. 3. Exposes corruption, news reports, and information for the common people. 4. This term relates to yellow journalism as it investigated the type of work yellow journalism released, which were tabloid/false information. 5. Reports on how a medicine failed to cure condition/possible side effects of the medicine. 1. Who did investigative journalism focus on? a. Tabloid centered news b. Crimes c. Access Hollywood d. E!e. All of the above 2. What is a major characteristic of investigative journalism? a. Helping the common peopleb. Investigating false reports c. Popular opinion d. Letters to the editor e. A & B 3. Who benefits from investigative journalism?a. Big business b. Marketers c. Tabloids d. Readers e. Political figures 4. Which is an example of a journalism that is commonly “investigated”?a. Tabloids b. Celebrity magazines c. Political cartoons d. Newspapers e. All of the above 5. When did investigative journalism expand? a. During Colonial Newspapers b. The Penny Press Erac. The Age of Yellow Journalism d. When Contemporary Journalism emerged e. None of the above 1. Interpretive journalism is a type of journalism that aims to explain key issues or events and place them in a broader historical or social context.2. This term is important because it talks about a type of journalism and this chapter istalking about the way journalism was converging and changing. This is a key term because it is a type of journalism that attracts readers and encourages sales of modern journalism. 3. Modern journalism, complex, explores analytical function of news. 4. Interpretive journalism that explains key issues and events in a historical/social context and investigative journalism looks to expose corruption in the government, especially within the economy and government. 5. An example could be a journalism piece explaining the rise of modern scientific technology.1. What is an example of interpretive journalism?a. Analytical function of the news b. Article that explains key issues or events in a broader historical content c. A&Bd. An article about a celebrity cheating on their spousee. None of the above 2. Why did interpretive journalism expand? a. Increased sales of