Round 20: Tossup 19

Wilbur Schramm wrote that this job’s output “exists in the minds of men” and outlined its authoritarian, libertarian, Soviet Communist, and social responsibility theories. A college curriculum for this job was pioneered by “Daddy” Bleyer at UW-Madison. This job crowdsources feedback on the platform HARO. David Manning White used this job to empirically study Kurt Lewin’s (“leh-VEEN’s”) concept of gatekeeping. A Janet Malcolm book partly titled for a murderer examines this job’s ethics, whose core principle is “limitation of harm.” The “Committee to Protect” this job collects data on its murder victims (10[1])in countries like Pakistan, Mexico, and Yemen. This job taught at the Medill School typically “embedded” with the military in Iraq. For 10 points, the inverted pyramid and “five Ws” are structural techniques from what job that codified the AP style? ■END■

ANSWER: journalism [or word forms of reporting or news; accept Associated Press; accept journalism school or J-school; accept investigative journalism or Committee to Protect Journalists or The Journalist and the Murderer; prompt on media or mass communications; prompt on writing, writer, author, editing, editor, or word forms] (HARO stands for Help a Reporter Out.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Andrew ZengStanford AChicago A9010

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Main Site2026-04-171100%0%90.00