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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| wikipedia | user-created and edited online encyclopedia |
| Ben Day | Published the New York Sun |
| Penny papers | affordable newspapers introduced in 1833 created unprecedented mass audience |
| Business model | a design operating a business, identifying revenue sources, customer base, products, financing. |
| publisher | magazine or newpapers proprietor |
| news editorial | a newspaper staff component that produces news, amusement and opinion content |
| editor | a manager who is responsible for news media content |
| Benjamin Franklin | in the U.S. colonial era, he created first newspaper chain |
| Chain newspaper | owned by a company that owns other newspapers elsewhere |
| William Randolph hearst | publisher of new York Journal, other major dailies in the yellow period. Stride in 1970 |
| Market penetration | sales per capita |
| paywell | block access to a website content unless a payment is made |
| William tweed | corrupt politician exposed by New York Times- 1870 |
| George Jones | New York Times reporter who pursued Tammany Hall scandal |
| Sullivan decision | Landmark libel case in which New York Times argued for unfettered reporting of public officials- 1964 |
| Pentagon Papers | Secret government-generated Vietnam war military documents revealed by New York Times |
| Barney Kilgore | Revamped concept of Wall Street Journal 1940's |
| Rupert Murdoch | Founder of global media conglomerate News Corporation |
| daniel defoe | His 1704 weekly review established magazines as foum for ideas |
| highbrow slicks | magazines whoses content has intellectual appeal |
| literati | well-educated people interested in literature and cerebral issues |
| Muckraking | early 1990's term for investigative reporting |
| ida tarbell | Exposed strandard oil monopolistic practices in 1902 magazine series |
| Lincoln steffens | exposed municipal corruption |
| upton sinclair | exposed bad meat-packing practices |
| personality profile | in-depth, balanced biographical article |
| Hugh Hefner | playboy editor who created modern Q-A |
| Henry Luce | His magazine empire encluded Time, life, sports illustrated, fortune- 1836 |
| Demassification | process of media narrowing focus to audience niches |
| business-to-influential | a business model with advertising aimedat creating sales indirectly by reaching influential audiences |
| Micheal Kinsley | founding editor of Slate magazine as well as editor for the new republic and numerous other publications |
| Slate | online magazine of news, politics and culture 1996 |
| Jeff Bezos | founder of online book retailer Amazon.com - 1994 |
| reference books | compilations, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases |
| wikipedia | user-created and edited online encyclopedia |
| Ben Day | introduce a penny-a-day newpaper |
| Penny papers | affordable newspapers introduced in 1833 created unprecedented mass audience |
| Business model | a design operating a business, identifying revenue sources, customer base, products, financing. |
| publisher | magazine or newpapers proprietor |
| news editorial | a newspaper staff component that produces news, amusement and opinion content |
| editor | a manager who is responsible for news media content |
| Benjamin Franklin | in the U.S. colonial era, he created first newspaper chain |
| Chain newspaper | owned by a company that owns other newspapers elsewhere |
| William Randolph hearst | publisher of new York Journal, other major dailies in the yellow period. Stride in 1970 |
| Market penetration | sales per capita |
| paywell | block access to a website content unless a payment is made |
| William tweed | corrupt politician exposed by New York Times- 1870 |
| George Jones | New York Times reporter who pursued Tammany Hall scandal |
| Sullivan decision | Landmark libel case in which New York Times argued for unfettered reporting of public officials- 1964 |
| Pentagon Papers | Secret government-generated Vietnam war military documents revealed by New York Times |
| Barney Kilgore | Revamped concept of Wall Street Journal 1940's |
| Rupert Murdoch | Founder of global media conglomerate News Corporation |
| daniel defoe | His 1704 weekly review established magazines as foum for ideas |
| highbrow slicks | magazines whoses content has intellectual appeal |
| literati | well-educated people interested in literature and cerebral issues |
| Muckraking | early 1990's term for investigative reporting |
| ida tarbell | Exposed strandard oil monopolistic practices in 1902 magazine series |
| Lincoln steffens | exposed municipal corruption |
| upton sinclair | exposed bad meat-packing practices |
| personality profile | in-depth, balanced biographical article |
| Hugh Hefner | playboy editor who created modern Q-A |
| Henry Luce | His magazine empire encluded Time, life, sports illustrated, fortune- 1836 |
| Demassification | process of media narrowing focus to audience niches |
| business-to-influential | a business model with advertising aimedat creating sales indirectly by reaching influential audiences |
| Micheal Kinsley | founding editor of Slate magazine as well as editor for the new republic and numerous other publications |
| Slate | online magazine of news, politics and culture 1996 |
| Jeff Bezos | founder of online book retailer Amazon.com - 1994 |
| reference books | compilations, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases |
| textbooks | curriculum-related titles for learning and understanding |
| trade books | general-interest titles, including fiction and nonfiction |
| e-books | digital files of book content that are stored, searched, sampled, downloaded and paid for online use on computer, dedicated reader or cell phone |
| e-reader | portable electronic device for on-screen reading of books |
| Harry Potter effect | impact of a single best- selling book |
| aliterate | a nonreader who can read but doesnt |
| Phonograpsh | early devices for playing recorded disks- early 1900's |
| airplay | radio time devoted to a particular recording |
| payola | a bribe to promote a product, like airplay for a music |
| playlist | a list of songs that a radio station plays |
| steve jobs | the driving force behind the apple computer revival, iPod and iTunes |
| Shawn fanning | created napster- music swapping |
| federal radio act | 1927 law establishing government regulation of radio |
| public interest, convenience and necessity | standard by which the U.S. government grants an renews local radio and tv station licenses |
| first amendment | provision in U.S. constitution against government interference with free citizen expression, including media content |
| trusteeship concept | government serves as a trustee for the public's interest in regulation broadcasting |
| marketplace concept | listeners through marketplace mechanism determine the fate of a business |
| telecommunication act | 1996 law overhaul federal regulation. ended most limits on chain ownership |
| localism | issuing broadcast licenses for service to a specified community and its environs |
| frequency modulation | radio technology with superior fidelity. signals travel in straight lines |
| amplitude modulation | radio technology with great range. signals follow curvature of earth |
| Arbitron | radio listener survey company |
| affiliates | locally licensed stations that have an ffiliation with a network to carry netwrk programming |
| Edward R. Murrow | war correspondent who helped establish radio as a news medium |
| walter cronkite | part of renowned CBS World War 2 radio news crew. later prominent tv anchor |
| breaking news | reports, often live, on events as they are occuring |
| healine servie | brief news stories |
| Gordon McLendon | reinvented radio with narrow formatsin the 1950's |
| all-news radio | a niche format that delivers only news and related information content and commentary |
| national public radio | network for noncommercial stations |
| all things considered | pioneer NPR AFTERNOON NEWS- MAGAZINE |
| news packages | carefully produced, long-form radio stories that offer depth; the hallmark of NPR |
| talkers | talk shows |
| Rush limbaugh | concervative radio talk-show host |
| coporation of public broadcasting | quasi-government agency that administers federal funds for noncommercial radio and television |
| morning edition | 2008 npr morning newsmagazine |
| the takeaway | WYNC originated morning show for public stations |
| synergy | an interaction that produces a combined effect greater than the sum of separate effects |
| suspension of disbelieve | occurs when you surrender doubts about the reality of a story and become caught up in the story |
| Adolph Zukor | innovative creator of Paramount as a major movie studio - 1912 |
| star system | making actors into celebrities to increase the size of movie audiences |
| studio system | when major studios controlled all aspects of the movie industry |
| block booking | rental agreement through which a movie house accepts a batch of movies |
| paramount decision | U.S. supreme court breakup of movie industry oligarchy in 1948 |
| Federal Radio Act | original law in 1927 for government regulation of U.S. broadcasting |
| Federal communications act | revision of federal radio act in 1934 to include TV |
| Two-tier system | original U.S. broadcast infrastructure had two tiers, one locally licensed stations, the other national networks |
| Big Three | ABC, CBS, NBC |
| Newton Minow | FCC chair who called TV a "vast wasteland" |
| Corporation for public broadcasting (CPB) | quasi government agency that channels tax-generated funds into the u.s. noncommercial television and radio system |
| PBS | TV network for noncommercial over-air stations |
| CATV | early local cable television systems; short for community antenna tv |
| Gerald Levin | Used orbiting satellite to relay exclusive programs to local cable systems in 1975 |
| CNN | first 24-hour television news service |
| multisystem operator (MSO) | a company that owns several local cable televion delivery units in different communities |
| DirecTV | larger of 2 U.S. satellite- direct companies |
| Dish Network | satellite-direct company |
| walt Disney | pioneer in animated films |
| indies | minor movie studies; not among Big Five |
| narrative films | movies that tell a story |
| warner brothers | a movie studio that introduced the first successful sound movie |
| the jazz singer | the first feature sound movie |
| the singing fool | the first full-length sound movie |
| gone with the wind | pioneer color film |
| the black pirte | the first feature movie in color |
| computer-generated imagery (CGI) | the application of three dimentional computer graphics for special effects, particularly in movies and TV |
| animated film | narrative films with drawn scenes and characters- 1920 |
| steamboat willie | animated cartoon character that became Mickey Mouse- 1928 |
| snow white and the seven dwarfs | first full-length animated film- 1937 |
| Robert Flaerty | First documentary filmmaker |
| Frank Capra | Hollywood movie director who produced powerful propaganda movies for the U.S. war effort in world war 2 |
| Why We Fight | Frank Capra's war mobilization documentary series |
| Fairness Doctrine | A U.S. government requirement from 1949 to 1987 that broadcast presentations had to include both sides on competing public issues |
| docu-ganda | documentaries that seek to influence their viewers |
| Michael moore | producer- director of point-of-view documentaries |
| webisode | a short episode of story line created for downloading to internet television or hand-help devices |
| blockbuster | a movie that is a great commercial success; also used to describe books |
| b-movie | low-budget movie; usually with little artistic aspiration |
| VOD | viewer controlled access to content at anytime |
| TiVo | digital recording and playback device fro television |
| time shifting | ability of viewer to change when they access programming |
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