16.1 The Evolving News Media

• Mass media - media designed to reach wide audience

Journalists as Investigators & Activists

• Wire service - organization that sells their news stories to others
• Investigative journalism - reporters digging into stories

Radio & TV

• Broadcast media - very widespread

16.2 Public Policy Regulation Content

Public Policy & Media Consolidation

• Media consolidation - concentration of ownership of media into fewer corporations

16.3 How Media Shapes Politics

• Media has a partisan bias
• Horse-race journalism - coverage of political campaigns that focuses more on the drama