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Media History And Culture People

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1. Wrote The Alarm - was in an interracial marriage - led the International Working People's Association. He was convicted for the bomb attack on city police known as the Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Riots - Anarchist






2. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965






3. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism






4. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965






5. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






6. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






7. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional






8. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






9. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom






10. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times






11. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico






12. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life






13. Studied in a mental instituion - wrote for The New York World under Pullitzer






14. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






15. Former slave - captivating and articulate speaker - editor of his own paper - had a book 'The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass -' was discovered by William Lloyd Garrison in 1841 - who then asked Douglass to speak at an anti-slavery convention. A






16. New York World - Investigative Journalism - Tammany Hall - Yellow Journalism






17. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used






18. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation






19. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket






20. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






21. Wrote The Alarm - was in an interracial marriage - led the International Working People's Association. He was convicted for the bomb attack on city police known as the Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Riots - Anarchist






22. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket






23. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times






24. Killed Emmett Till






25. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used






26. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine






27. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






28. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism






29. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation






30. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association






31. Studied in a mental instituion - wrote for The New York World under Pullitzer






32. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association






33. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






34. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star






35. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine






36. Racist - hated the Irish - yellow journalism - cartoons - wrote for Harper's Weekly - founder of 'Watchdog journalism' because of his work against Tammany Hall - is considered the father of the American Cartoon






37. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War






38. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines






39. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly






40. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom






41. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






42. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico






43. Susan B. Anthony's partner - started The Revolution/NWSA






44. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life






45. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional






46. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star






47. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War






48. Anti-communism - republican - 'list' of communists in the House and Senate






49. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines






50. Tammany Hall - Nast - got the Irish vote - rigged election - center of conspiracy - Governor of New York - Democrat

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