The History Of Journalism

Journalism has been around for a long time, one of the first event to ever happen in the History of Journalism was the Yellow Journalists which started in 1898. Yellow Journalists is a US term for a type of journalism that represents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead used eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. It all started when the Spanish-American war of 1898, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst both made a article about the war.

3 years later, Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the United States, nicknamed types of investigative journalists muckrakers. Muckrakers reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines.

Libel is another word for defamation which means a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation. It what newspaper companies do to their opponent to try and ruin their reputation.

The 5 W’s and H refers to the six questions that a reporter should answer in the lead paragraph of a news story (as long as they are relevant and make sense). It’s what reporters do when they wanna cover a topic.

Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeier court case was a school district that restricted a student called Catherine Kuhlmeier a students freedom of speech in 1987. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and the final decision was made that Hazelwood School District had the right to limit the students speech while keeping it school appropriate.