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American newspaper coverage of the great meteor storm of 1833 provides an opportunity to observe that era's science journalism in action. The results are surprising. Newspapers in this period from the Revolution to the Civil War focused almost entirely on politics and were highly partisan, with little concern for local happenings and even less for science. Yet confronted with a completely unexpected celestial spectacle that had substantial scientific implications, most newspaper editors rose to the occasion by adopting uncharacteristic practices. They sought out observers and got interviews. They published letters from witnesses. They consulted scientific texts and printed explanations from scientists. Most editors tried to keep their articles factual, although their political stories h...
This study examines how nineteenth-century American journalism used history. Based primarily on almost 2,000 magazine article titles, the authors found a marked increase in historical referents by 1900. Primarily used for context and placement, historical references often noted the country's origins, leaders and wars, particularly the Civil War. By connecting the present to the past, journalists highlighted an American story worth remembering during a time of nation-building, increased magazine circulation, and rise of feature stories. References to past people, events and institutions reiterated a particular national history, not only to those long settled, but also to new immigrants. Journalistic textual silences were the histories of most women, African Americans, Native Americans an...
A pre-Columbian scribe had the skill to chronicle an array of events from information on wars and victories, laws, legends and prominent people or places to transcendental rites and ceremonies such as childbirths, marriages, sacrifices and funerals. [...] along with the most sophisticated technology of the time, Spaniards imported a rigid class structure, excessive privilege to governors and the rich, as well as an organized system of cruelty to enforce loyalty and obedience. Elsewhere journalists are subject to investigation, penalties, and often murder for alleged offense to good morals, incitement to crime or disturbance to public order, or slander.
[...] neither offers all-encompassing articles titled "Broadcasting" or "Television;" Blanchard breaks television into segments such as "Television and Violence," "Television Entertainment," "Television News," and "Television Ratings," among others, while Vaughn's readers must dig into such index topics as the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," "Agricultural Journalism," "Army-McCarthy Hearings," the "Asian American Market," "Cable Television Competition," and "Football Journalism" to piece together the story of television. [...] I fear that the authence for volumes like this consists mostly of those of us who remember the days when books, not a computer screen, provided us with most of our information.
, by Eric Burns, is reviewed.
The American Indian Journalism Institute will be the first chance for many tribal college students to study journalism," [Ramon Chavez] said. Their schools typically lack journalism classes and school newspapers, the most common route to journalism careers. The American Indian Journalism Institute is part of the Freedom Forum's commitment to increase employment diversity at daily newspapers. "Improving diversity - having even one Native American working in a newsroom - makes a newspaper more aware of Indians in its community, and more sensitive and intelligent in reporting stories about them," said Jack Marsh, executive director of the Freedom Forum's Al Neuharth Media Center. In addition to journalism education programs at the University of South Dakota, the Freedom Forum funds and ...
Joseph Campbell did not set out to do a book on the journalism of 1897. But as he was researching his earlier book, Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myth, Defining the Legacies (2001), it became apparent to him that 1897 was a pivotal year in the history of the American press. It was a year in which, he says, "American journalism came face-to-face with a choice between three rival and incompatible visions or paradigms for the profession's future." That choice, in many ways, endures today.
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