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1. 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
Edward R. Murrow
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Charles Coughlin
2. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation
Ida Tarbell
Daniel Ellsburg
Susan B. Anthony
Nellie Bly
3. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines
Ida Tarbell
Henry Ford
Mark Twain
Mark Felt
4. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'
Adolph Ochs
Albert Parsons
Henry Ford
William Randolph Hearst
5. Susan B. Anthony's partner - started The Revolution/NWSA
Henry Ford
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Morley Safer
Thomas Paine
6. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate
Ben Bradlee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thomas Nast
George WAllace
7. Discriminated against Jews in Dearborn Independent - 'The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem'
Judith Miller
Henry Ford
Joseph McCarthy
Albert Parsons
8. New York World - Investigative Journalism - Tammany Hall - Yellow Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
Ben Bradlee
9. Tammany Hall - Nast - got the Irish vote - rigged election - center of conspiracy - Governor of New York - Democrat
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10. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional
Bob Woodward
Edward R. Murrow
Susan B. Anthony
Adolph Ochs
11. African American journalist who wrote about lynching - scared for her life
Samuel Adams
J.W. Milam
Ida B. Wells
Albert Parsons
12. Wrote satire against imperialism and the colonization of the Philippines
Henry Ford
Mark Twain
Susan B. Anthony
Joseph McCarthy
13. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times
Joseph McCarthy
Adolph Ochs
Joseph Pulitzer
Lucy Stone
14. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine
Mark Felt
Thomas Paine
George WAllace
Roy Bryant
15. CBS radio - Catholic priest who spoke against the KKK - admired Hitler-hated the Jews - wider range of audience
Nellie Bly
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
Charles Coughlin
Nellie Bly
16. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War
Joseph McCarthy
Carl Bernstein
Samuel Adams
Susan B. Anthony
17. Anti-communism - republican - 'list' of communists in the House and Senate
William Randolph Hearst
J.W. Milam
Thomas Nast
Joseph McCarthy
18. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom
Richard Harding Davis
Lucy Stone
Joseph Pulitzer
Edward Bernays
19. Killed Emmett Till with L.W. Milam - confessed in an interview with 'Look' Magazine
Roy Bryant
Judith Miller
Carl Bernstein
Thomas Nast
20. CBS reporter - Zippo Segment
Morley Safer
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
Joseph McCarthy
Judith Miller
21. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
Samuel Adams
Emmett Till
Mark Twain
22. American Women's Suffrage Association - Conservative - women's rights - Women's journal
Judith Miller
Joseph Pulitzer
Lucy Stone
Mark Felt
23. Abolitionist who wrote for The Liberator - was a voice for the women's suffrage movement - discovered Frederick Douglass - wrote for the North Star
Charles Coughlin
J.W. Milam
William Lloyd Garrison
Lucy Stone
24. Created the concept of objectivity -third person - no sides - less personal - New York Times
Samuel Adams
Adolph Ochs
Edward Bernays
Lucy Stone
25. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism
Carl Bernstein
Seymour Hersh
Bob Woodward
William Randolph Hearst
26. African American Chicago boy - brutally murdered in the south - his mother put his body on display after He was killed - open casket
Ida Tarbell
Emmett Till
Ida B. Wells
George WAllace
27. Suffragist - founder of the newspaper-The Revolution - partner was Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Seneca Falls convention - Part of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nellie Bly
Susan B. Anthony
Thomas Paine
28. Author of comon sense - American Revolution
Joseph Pulitzer
Thomas Paine
William Lloyd Garrison
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
29. Journal of Occurences (first wire newspaper) - American Revolution - Spanish American War
William Lloyd Garrison
Ida B. Wells
Samuel Adams
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
30. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965
William Lloyd Garrison
Nellie Bly
George WAllace
Carl Bernstein
31. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize
Daniel Ellsburg
Joseph McCarthy
Albert Parsons
Seymour Hersh
32. Exposed My Lai and its cover up - won Pullitzer Prize
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ben Bradlee
Seymour Hersh
Ben Bradlee
33. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used
Ben Bradlee
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
Thomas Nast
Ida Tarbell
34. Covered Watergate - worked for The Washington Post - edgy - dropout - didn't go to college - chased down sources in New Mexico
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Judith Miller
Carl Bernstein
Daniel Ellsburg
35. 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
Daniel Ellsburg
Morley Safer
Albert Parsons
Ben Bradlee
36. Susan B. Anthony's partner - started The Revolution/NWSA
Ida Tarbell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Goodman Croly and George Wakeman
Joseph McCarthy
37. Started the New York Journal - Journalism of Action - yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst
Richard Harding Davis
Frederick Douglass
Roy Bryant
38. Founder of PR - Sigmund Freud's nephew - used psychology in his work - Torches of Freedom
Edward Bernays
Bob Woodward
William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed
Carl Bernstein
39. Vice president of The Washington Post during Watergate
Joseph Pulitzer
Ben Bradlee
Thomas Nast
Samuel Adams
40. 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
Henry Ford
Lucy Stone
Ben Bradlee
Frederick Douglass
41. Wrote McClure's Standard oil and the tactics they used
Susan B. Anthony
Henry Ford
Ida Tarbell
Mark Felt
42. Watergate - partner to Bernstein - went to college - professional
Edward Bernays
Bob Woodward
Ben Bradlee
Lucy Stone
43. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent
Daniel Ellsburg
Mark Felt
William Lloyd Garrison
Ben Bradlee
44. Deep throat - provided Bernstein and Woodward with information - FBI agent
Albert Parsons
Daniel Ellsburg
Mark Felt
Ida Tarbell
45. 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
Ida B. Wells
Thomas Paine
Albert Parsons
J.W. Milam
46. Killed Emmett Till
Thomas Nast
Emmett Till
J.W. Milam
Roy Bryant
47. Published 'Pentagon Papers' to the New York Times - RAND corporation
Daniel Ellsburg
Carl Bernstein
Mark Felt
Joseph McCarthy
48. Alabama Governor during the Selma March - led to Voting Act of 1965
George WAllace
Mark Twain
Thomas Nast
William Lloyd Garrison
49. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly
Mark Felt
Frederick Douglass
Richard Harding Davis
Emmett Till
50. Spanish American War - Yellow Journalism - Harper's Weekly
J.W. Milam
Morley Safer
Richard Harding Davis
Emmett Till