front 1 News Media | back 1 A broad term that includes newspaper, magazines, radio, television, internet sources, blogs, and social-media postings that cover important events. |
front 2 Social Media | back 2 Forms of electronic communication that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. |
front 3 Agenda Setting | back 3 The media’s ability to highlight certain issues and bring them to the attention of the public. |
front 4 Mass Media | back 4 Sources of Information designed to reach a wide audience, including newspapers, radio, television, and internet outlets. |
front 5 Wire Service | back 5 An organization that gathers and reports on news and then sells the stories to other outlets. |
front 6 Investigate Journalism | back 6 An approach to newsgathering in which reporters dig into stories, often looking for instances of wrongdoing. |
front 7 Muckrakers | back 7 Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices in the Progressive Era to prompt government and corporate reforms. |
front 8 Broadcast Media | back 8 Outlets for news and other content including radio and television that bring stories directly to people’s homes. |
front 9 New Media | back 9 Technologies like the internet and social media that have transformed how citizens get political information |
front 10 Federal Communications Commission | back 10 An independent federal agency established by the Communications Act of 1934, regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. |
front 11 Media Consolidation | back 11 The concentration of Ownership of the media into fewer corporations |
front 12 Telecommunication Act of 1996 | back 12 A legislation aimed to boost competition by removing old rules that kept phone, cable, and radio companies from entering each other's markets. |
front 13 Horse-Race Journalism | back 13 Coverage of political campaigns that focuses more on the drama of the campaigns than on policy issues. |