Partisan press: Newspapers and other communication media that openly support a political party and whose news in significant part follows the party line.

Example: Fox News

Muckrakers: Journalists involved with exposing corruption

Example: Lincoln Steffens was a muckraker journalist who exposed corrupt businessmen whose bribes and greed fueled the entire system of corruption.

Penny Press: The Penny papers represented the crudest form of journalism because of the sensational gossip that was reported. 

Example: The Sun, first published by Benjamin Day in 1833, was the first Penny Press.

Wire service: a news agency that supplies syndicated news by wire to newspapers, radio, and television stations.

Example: The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Press, and ACAN-EFE

Yellow Journalism: over dramatic versions of the truth in journalism

Example: during the Spanish American War. Those in the media wanted to sell newspapers, so they sent reporters to Cuba. The reporters published stories that were sensationalized, and that were not necessarily true.

Shock Jock: a radio host that expresses their opinions in their own way

Example: George Carlin

Global village: the phenomenon of the entire world becoming more interconnected as the result of the propagation of media technologies throughout the world.

Example: the Internet

Computer assisted reporting: Computer-assisted reporting describes the use of computers to gather and analyze the data necessary to write news stories.

Examples: Reporters routinely collect information in databases, study political change with geographic system mapping, conduct interviews by e-mail, and research background for articles on the Web.