Journalism 200 Quiz 3

Lecture topics: 1. 19th century journalism reformers 2. Journalism during the Civil War 3. New Journalism: circulation wars 4. Muckraking

Horace Greeley’s papers

-New York Morning Post

-New Yorker

-New York Tribune***

Margaret Fuller’s paper contributions

-The Dial

-New York Tribune

Jane Grey Swisshelm’s paper

The Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter

Frederick Douglass’s paper

The North Star

issues covered in The Tribune

slavery, capital punishment, prostitution, gambling, war, alcohol, smoking, vegetarianism

Issues Margaret Fuller covered

social issues: asylums, prisons, poorhouses, public health conditions/concerns, & ethnic prejudices

Issues Jane Grey Swisshelm fought for

abolition & women’s legal rights

How did Horace Greeley “ignite” the Civil War?

He wrote a headline that said “On To Richmond” after the Confederates fired on Ft. Sumter

Content of Horace Greeley’s papers

political content, lectures, book excerpts, serialized novels, poems, book reviews, & local events

Margaret Fuller in France reported on…

daycare centers, slave-like working conditions & the spread of prostitution

Margaret Fuller in Italy reported on…

the Italian Revolution

Why was Swisshelm v Swisshelm significant?

The case was a landmark case in married women’s property rights

3 ways Mathew Brady gained his reputation as one of America’s greatest photographers

1. Exhibited Gardner’s & Gibson’s photographs of Antietam which marked the first time ppl witnessed that battle

2. His war scenes went beyond posed portraits of the dead

3. He created the first ever photographic history of war

Joseph Pulitzer’s papers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch & New York World

William Randolph Hearst’s papers

San Francisco Examiner & New York Morning Journal

Content in Hearst’s paper

sensationalism, fabrication, and dishonesty in news stories

Content of Pulitzer’s papers

stunt journalism, bold banner headlines, editorial cartoons, etc