Answer:
1. What are two important events or changes in the history of journalism?
Describe them.
<em>The history of journalism spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused, as one history of journalism surmises, the steady increase of "the scope of news available to us and the speed with which it is transmitted.</em>
2. What are newsreels?
<em>Newsreel, short motion picture of current events introduced in England about 1897 by the Frenchman Charles Pathé. Newsreels were shown regularly, first in music halls between entertainment acts and later between the featured films in motion-picture theatres.</em>
3. Who was Ida B. Wells? Why is she important to the history of journalism?
<em>Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.</em>
4. How has the format of news changed over the years?
<em>Fifty years ago, newspapers were printed in black and white; color became commonplace in the 1980s. The New York Times and The Washington Post were among the last major American newspapers to switch to full-color printing. Fifty years ago, "up style" headlines were the norm -- that's also called "title case," in which nearly every word of a headline begins with a capital letter. Now most newspapers use "down style" headlines, which follow the same capitalization rules as the articles do. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal continue to use up style; I'm not aware of any other major American newspaper to continue that, although my small-town weekly does. Fifty years ago, most newspapers were printed with metal type; the offset printing method was just getting started back then. </em>
5. Who was Max Robinson? Why is he important to the history of Journalism?
<em>Maxie Cleveland "Max" Robinson, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983. Robinson is noted as the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the United States.</em>
