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1. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent






2. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal






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






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






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






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






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






8. Author of comon sense - American Revolution






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


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






11. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize






12. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize






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






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






15. Killed Emmett Till






16. Radio journalist - CBS partner with Fred Friendly and made 'Hear it Now' and 'see it now' covered racial integration and the Korean war - combated anti-communism - did a report on Joseph McCarthy






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






21. Miscegenation pamphlet - hoax






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






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






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






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






26. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






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






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






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






30. 9/11 reporter - jumped on the bandwagon






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






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






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






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






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


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






37. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate






38. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal






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






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






41. Radio journalist - CBS partner with Fred Friendly and made 'Hear it Now' and 'see it now' covered racial integration and the Korean war - combated anti-communism - did a report on Joseph McCarthy






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






43. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment






44. 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






45. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'






46. 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






47. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent






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






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






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