JOR 115 – Key Facts #1

Key Facts = names, dates, terms, media, "ideas" that are important for you to know.

These may – or may not -- have been discussed in class. In either case, I expect you to be able to make sense of them.

From reading assignment for 9/15/09

Blog

Citizen journalism; see also http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=List_of_citizen_journalism_websites

News aggregators

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press; website http://people-press.org/

Committee of Concerned Journalists; website http://www.concernedjournalists.org/

Project for Excellence in Journalism; website http://www.journalism.org/

"birth of journalism" EJ pp. 16-18

gatekeeper role of journalism

watchdog role of journalism

Walter Lippmann

John Dewey

Rupert Murdoch

A.J. Liebling

Gannett company; see also http://www.gannett.com/about/company_profile.htm

Conglomeration

Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics; online at http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp