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Tags: 1952, Dave Garroway, Douglas Edwards, Heather Blevins, news anchors, Television, Today show, Walter Cronkite
Tags: 1952, Dave Garroway, Douglas Edwards, Heather Blevins, news anchors, Television, Today show, Walter Cronkite
Who invented original reporting on television?
Posted by: heatherblevins | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |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 […]
War reporting: from Herodotus to photojournalists
Posted by: heatherblevins | September 20, 2011 | No Comment |View “War reporting: from Herodotus to photojournalists” on Storify
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Tags: Afghanistan, Ben Brody, Civil War, Heather Blevins, Photojournalism, photojournalist, Television, UPIU, Vietnam War, War Reporting
Tags: Afghanistan, Ben Brody, Civil War, Heather Blevins, Photojournalism, photojournalist, Television, UPIU, Vietnam War, War Reporting
A brief history of television and a look at its future
Posted by: gpelkofski | October 20, 2010 | No Comment |With all the talk of Google TV and Apple TV and integrating internet content with television content in class, I figured it was time for a brief look at the major technological innovations of TV. 1927- Philo Farnsworth patents his idea for what would be the first television. 1928- W3xK becomes America’s first television network […]
Royal Weddings: Gossip from print to television
Posted by: gpelkofski | September 29, 2010 | No Comment |In Chapter Seven “Human Interests (Faits Divers)–Such a Deal of Wonder,” Stephens recounts the details surrounding the news coverage of England’s King Henry VII’s daughter Mary to Prince Charles, “heir to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire,” in 1508. Despite the wedding not taking place for political reasons, a printed pamphlet of the announcement […]
It was just 31 years ago that the most famous sports network, ESPN, launched. Before that, the most reliable way to receive your sports news and scores would have been through the daily newspaper or the radio. Before that, the majority of people could not have imagined a TV channel dedicated to sports reporting. Now, […]
As Mitchell Stephens points out in chapter 16 of “A History of News,” much of the news offered today is repetitious. This held some truth before the advent of pay television (cable and satellite) and the Internet. Now, with so many media options available to the audience, stories often feed on themselves and the repetition […]
Technology: helping the spread of news (part 3)
Posted by: michaelmorse | November 5, 2009 | No Comment |In our previous two blog entries, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, and radio (see below) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large. In this entry, we will continue the discussion on how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: Wikipedia While, the telegraph and radio were helpful in spreading information and news to the public-at-large, the television […]
As everyone is aware of, Television has change everything an ordinary American has done over the past half century. It is a revolutionary technology in the 20th century that has change the way we received news, and how the news is transformed to millions of viewers. Television sets begin with black and white sets,color in […]