1. Media Rights and Ethics
Scavenger Hunt

2. Question 1, 2 and 3 Journalists are protected by the FIRST AMENDMENT.
The five other rights protected by this amendment include:
Freedom from the government establishing a religion
Free exercise of religion
Freedom of speech
Freedom to peaceable assembly
Freedom to petition
Included in the BILL of RIGHTS

3. Question 4, 5 – Preamble to Code of Ethics
Check the handout!
Question 5:
Seek truth and report it
Minimize harm
Act independently (from what?)
Be accountable (to whom?)

4. Question 6
Libel = anything WRITTEN that can harm a person’s reputation or character
Slander = anything SPOKEN that can harm a person’s reputation or character
Absence of Malice = in journalism this refers to a lack of desire or premeditation to do/cause harm to anyone

5. Question 7 – Joseph Pulitzer
Publisher who promise Columbia University millions of $$$ if the established a school of journalism
The Pulitzer Prize
1917
Paper must publish at least weekly, be devoted to original reporting and ascribe to high ethical standards
More on this guy later!!! Mr. Sutton will talk about him, too.

6. Question 8 – Pulitzer Categories
Meritorious public service
Local reporting of breaking news
Investigative reporting
Explanation reporting
Reporting of local issue
National affairs reporting
International affairs reporting
Feature writing
Commentary
Criticism
Editorial
Cartoons
Breaking news photos
Feature photos

7. Question 9 -Watergate Who: White house based burglars
What: broke into DNC headquarters
When: June 18, 1972
Where: Watergate complex in Washington, DC
Why: to photo documents and plant bugs
Reporters: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post,
Why: to report the truth about the incident and cover up
How: excellent reporting, trustworthy sources, superior published and editors

8. Question 10 All the President’s Men
Resignation of Richard M. Nixon on 8/8/1974 (before probable impeachment)

9. Question 11
What did you find?

10. Question 12 Hearst – American newspaper publisher; broadcast media
Glass – fabricated information in over 40 articles for The New Republic.
Blair – Resigned NY Times for plagiarizing
Cooke – Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winner; fabricated the article
Thomas – female reporting legend; became a member of the White House Press Corps until her retirement
Russert – Senior VP NBC News, the Washington Bureau Chief, and moderators of Meet the Press. Died in 2008.
Edward R. Murrow – broadcast journalist famous for WW II reporting and confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy; pioneer of TV news; hosted See it Now.

11. Question 12 continued
Tom Brokaw; retired TV journalist and author; anchor of NBC Nightly News
Ernie Pyle – newspaper columnist who followed Mark Twain’s folksy style. Dies in combat during WWII. Won Pulitzer in 1944.

12. Question13 World’s Greatest Newspaper = Chicago Tribune
All the News That’s Fir to Print = New York Times
If you Don’t Want it Printed, Don’t Let it Happen = The Aspen (Colorado)
Light for All = The Baltimore Sun

13. Question14 Associated Press = the news wire
Gannet = Media conglomerate
Knight-Ridder = media conglomerate
United Press International = news wire