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Archive for September, 2011

Harry P. Davis had a vision when he convinced his electric company, Westinghouse, to try something that never had been done before. On Nov. 2, 1920, the first commercial radio station, was launched. The station is KDKA, a CBS affiliate that is still running today in Pittsburgh. The first broadcast reported on the returns of […]

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Bigger. Faster. Stronger.

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |

Happy birthday, Google! Just a few short years and you’ll be borrowing the car and taking your gal YouTube out for a malt and a drive-in movie (kids still do that, right?) So you’re a teenager now. What’s on your wish list for the Big 1-3? A new smart phone? A trip to… Kansas? Kansas City, […]

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What is original reporting? Jim Romenesko called attention to this CBS News promo that was released in August, claiming the network invented original reporting on television. The promo states: “What is original reporting? It’s finding your own facts, seeing them first hand; telling the story no one else will — or can. It’s not just […]

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Media Star: Anderson Cooper

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |

Anderson Cooper has a nightly show on CNN called “Anderson Cooper 360°” where he reports on national and international news events. The show airs at 8 PM nightly on CNN. Cooper is known for reporting on-location from areas where there is breaking news. While he has correspondents film and compile news packages for his broadcast, […]

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Franklin’s favorite editor

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |

  In 1738, Elizabeth Timothy quickly went into work mode after the death of her husband, Lewis Timothy.  With six children ages 13 and under Elizabeth assumed role of publisher and editor of the “South Carolina Gazette,” working side by side with Benjamin Franklin. Credit:  http://www.nwhm.org

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Skyping Dr. Freud

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |

Most of us know the therapy cliche of a patient sitting in a doctor’s office with their feet propped up on a leather sofa as they divulge their life’s problems. All the while, a doctor sits in an adjacent chair, jotting down notes furiously and writing various prescriptions. Whether we have been through this ourselves, know […]

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Travel Journalism’s itinerary

Posted by: | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |

Travel journalism has been around since 1160, where a rabbi wrote of his travels. In that age, travel news was mainly written. Now it is usually televised or photographed. Regardless of the medium, travel journalism seeks to describe places to an audience. It may be that in this age, we are more visual so these […]

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In the much scrutinized world of sports, athletes are under the constant eye of the media and fans in everything that they do, on and off the field. With social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, at easy access, athletes across the globe have flocked to using them as means of reaching out to […]

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The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby boy became a media sensation, quite possibly leading to the poorest outcome of all.

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There are a number of different ways to document your travels: travel blogs, travel journals, vlogs and even Twitter. Long before Tumblr and Blogger, people actually hand wrote their travels in journals. One of the earliest examples is from Christopher Columbus notes on Marco Polo. Here is a picture: Travel reporting also has origins from […]

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Traditional journalism has long surpassed its peak in what’s now considered ‘old media,” but who are the real traditional journalists? It can be argued that rather than a decline in old media and a birth of new, what’s really occurring in today’s fast-pace, technologically advanced society is a reversion to traditional methods of spoken news. […]

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The new news apps

Posted by: | September 26, 2011 | No Comment |

Tablets are the latest craze around the world in 2011. From the iPad, to the Galaxy Tab and now even Amazon wants a crack at it. Sure these things are cool to play with, but did we really think it would change the face of journalism? Sports Illustrated last year created what I think is […]

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