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In 1923 two young journalists, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, came together under the goal of a magazine that could better deliver news to the mass public in a concise, informative manor.  Under this premise, Time Magazine was first published. Within 4 years of the original publication, Time secured a subscription list of over […]

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-Helena Okolicsanyi When the first broadcast of news hit the airwaves through the radio in 1920, something significant was happening. For the first time, news was brought directly to the home. No loner did you have to wait for the next day’s newspaper to learn about the world, all you had to do was simply […]

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A form of the earliest newspapers, the Roman Acta Diurna were a daily posting of news from the Roman officials. Unlike the flimsy and disposable modern newspaper, the Actas were carved onto stone and metal and published in the forums for public viewing. The first Acta was published sometime around 131 B.C. during the Roman […]

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It took the Village Voice

Posted by: | November 29, 2011 | No Comment |

When Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher established the Village Voice, they didn’t have experience in the newspaper business. Fancher was the publisher of the Voice, Wolf the editor and Mailer was officially a silent partner. According to Menand, Wolf later said “If we had known more, we certainly would have suffered less.” Nonetheless, […]

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Let’s do the time warp again

Posted by: | October 25, 2011 | No Comment |

Since we took our first test last class, I decided I’d do a wrap-up of all the ethnic press events from our timeline.

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Storytelling: Herodotus to Storify

Posted by: | September 20, 2011 | No Comment |

To me, storytelling isn’t just orally telling the story. In the age of Zuckerberg, journalists and others practice visual storytelling via applications like Storify. For those of you who need a little reminding of what a Storify looks like, check this one out:

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Japan and the history of print journalism aren’t two topics that people often think about together. And truthfully, I have no idea how they impact each other, either. But I studied Japanese in high school so I figured I’d volunteer to blog about the Japanese contribution. Much of our timeline has concentrated on Europe and […]

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The melting pot of the ethnic press

Posted by: | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |

“Know your audience” is a phrase you hear often in journalism. Think about your co-workers or classmates. Very few of them are just one ethnicity. The press isn’t all one ethnicity, either. That is what the ethnic press is all about. American newspapers, television stations and other outlets of media aren’t just in English anymore. […]

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American Journalism pt. 2

Posted by: | November 21, 2010 | No Comment |

1930’s: The Great Depression dominated most of this decade; Prohibition ends in 1934 Franklin Delano Roosevelt renews hope by using the radio (to conduct fireside chats) and starting a series of programs to boost the economy, otherwise known as the New Deal Fascism was on the rise: Hitler and Nazi party came to power in Germany; Benito Mussolini rose to […]

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American Journalism pt. 1

Posted by: | November 21, 2010 | No Comment |

“The very basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson, […]

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