Pounding a Beat - Print Journalism Quiz

Answer: New York Weekly Journal

In the 1700s, when the U.S. was still just a bunch of British colonies, Zenger started writing bad things about British government. Eventually in 1735, he was arrested for libel. He won his case as everything he wrote was fact-based.

Answer: Pennsylvania Gazette

Remembered as one of America's founding fathers, as a statesman, an inventor, and many other things, his journalism background is often forgotten. He founded the gazette himself and served as the editor and reporter for it. The paper, which was published infrequently, served to inform the populace leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Answer: San Francisco Examiner

Hearst is well known as a publisher, who published sensationalist stories simply for sales of papers. He was one of the men who pushed "yellow journalism" during the mid 1880s. He was based in San Francisco and had publishing wars with Joseph Pulitzer who was based in New York.

Answer: New York World

Eventually he was remembered as a bastion of the free press and standards in journalism, but he started his career with "yellow" journalism and wrote sensationalist stories to increase sales.

The New York World wasn't known to publish false stories, though, just sensational ones. It often focused on crime and other stories that contemporary papers didn't.

Answer: United Press International

She started her career at the "Washington Daily News", but was fired after a few months when she went on strike with the rest of the staff. Thomas quickly caught on at UPI, and worked there for more than 50 years. She left that organization in 2000, having started with them in 1960.

She then moved on to column writing for several of the Hearst newspapers. Throughout her entire career she covered the White House and the president.

Answer: New York Times

Like many of her other famous colleagues in the field, she made her name covering the White House and other political stories. She gained notoriety during the Valerie Plame scandal when she refused to reveal her sources and was jailed over it. Eventually, she was released from jail, never giving up her source.

Answer: New Yorker

Writing for the "New Yorker", Hersh has done longer and more in-depth pieces than many of his contemporaries who worked at newspapers. The New Yorker was a magazine, which had more space than a newspaper. Hersh often covered the U.S. Military, and through a large network of sources, on the record and confidential, he was able to write hard-hitting stories on topics others didn't even know about.

Answer: New York Times

Dowd started as a beat reporter, and quickly ascended into a well-known journalist and opinion writer at the Times. For much of her time as a columnist, she was the only full-time woman at the paper writing for that section. As both a reporter and later opinion writer, she was known for her political pieces.

Answer: Wall Street Journal

He started his career as a political writer as a left-leaning moderate but ended up being a conservative after years in the thick of things. After years working for the Journal, Novak had a hand in helping to create the TV network CNN. After his time at the Journal, he also wrote for "Reader's Digest", The Associated Press and many others.

He was also a co-founder of the Evans-Novak Political Report and Inside Report.

Answer: The Washington Post

Two of the most famous U.S. journalists in history, Woodward and Bernstein are credited with helping bring down the Richard Nixon administration. The pair uncovered the Watergate Scandal and won numerous awards for their efforts. Later they published a book, which was turned into a movie about that time in their lives. Bernstein left the paper 2 years after the stories were published; Woodward stayed on and became an editor at the paper.