Just about 15 years into the ‘online era,’ newspapers are suffering — but not as bad as was once thought. Besides the fact that daily newspaper circulation has been dropping every year for the past two decades, newspaper companies still experience decent business for a world overwhelmed by the Internet and electronic news. The case […]
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It’s finally here. Election Day is Tuesday. The 2012 Election will commence this Tuesday in what may be our nation’s biggest decision. The campaign between Romney and Obama has been blazing for months now. It has seen some of the most important and largest issues in history, as well. Abortion, Obamacare, and the economy have […]
Hurricane Sandy seems to have done nothing to the Northern Virginia area. NOVA woke up on Tuesday to a low number of power outages, barely any flooding, and minimal structure damage. Compared to New York City we really got nothing. It was merely a day-long storm. For NOVA, ‘Frankenstorm’ was all hype. For New York, […]
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Tags: big story reporting, comm455, extracredit, hurricanesandy, patrickszabo
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With all the media coverage telling us that Hurricane Sandy is going to reak havock on the East Coast there is one question to wonder about. Really? Will Sandy really cause so much damage as the media says it will? There’s no way to tell but one thing is for sure. This hurricane is being […]
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Tags: big story reporting, comm455, hurricane, patrickszabo, sandy, Sensationalism
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Another journalist was killed just two months ago covering war in the Middle East. Mika Yamamoto, a Japanese journalist, was killed when caught in the middle of a firefight in Aleppo, Syria on August 20. She is one of the latest journalists to be killed while covering the civil war in Syria. It is well […]
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Tags: big story reporting, Comm 455, Japanese Contribution, patrickszabo, War Reporting
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When the big story just isn’t enough, journalists must dig deeper. Stories that have been unearthed, so to speak, may constitute muckraking or investigative journalism. These types of stories do, however, sometimes reveal themselves as big stories. Therefore, muckraking and big story reporting often times go hand-in-hand. The Watergate Scandal was broken by Bob Woodward […]
What’s the latest scoop?! Big story reporting is what the media has always aimed for. Aside from sensationalized stories about anything and everything people would be interested in, the biggest stories always get the front page and the most attention. Presidential elections — like the one we are presently witnessing — are a huge deal […]
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Tags: big story reporting, comm455, Libya, patrickszabo, War Reporting
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As far as Japanese technology goes, some say it is unparalleled. Japan seems to have excelled far more than any other nation in history in this area. But when it comes to the media, what has Japan done? Paper! In the year 610 A.D. China transferred its form of paper — still primitive at the […]
“President Shot Dead,” “Attack on America” “Berlin Wall Crumbles” Headlines like these have been fed to the world since the beginnings of the press and media in general. Always being a front page story, significant news stories that shape the world are the first thing a reader sees when he or she picks up a […]
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Tags: 9/11, ambassador, big story reporting, comm455, Libya, patrickszabo
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The Dean’s Main Point on the French Revolution
Posted by: pszabe | September 13, 2012 | No Comment |“What was the Dean’s main point about the French Revolution?” Professor Klein asked. The overall class answer was that the press didn’t cause the French Revolution…it contributed to it. Without the press in 18th century France there would have been no revolution. From 1631-1750 the press was very small and controlled by the government. It was in the […]
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Since Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press—invented around 1436—prints of all kinds have been massively produced. Following this invention, the newspaper was able to spread the news in the form of printed paper. The time in between Gutenberg’s Printing Press and our modern society of blogging, tweeting and online publications has come to be known as the […]