Comm455/History of Journalism

All sports teams have their own rules for reporters.  Grant Paulsen is the beat reporter fot the Washington Redskins and knows how the rules have evolved. What use to be open and easy to cover, practice now has strict rules. The players are not allowed to tweet at all during practice and as of recently […]

A huge Redskins loss made one radio personality famous across the media mediums. One of the host of the LaVar and Dukes show (106.7 The Fan), Chad Dukes, has made himself famous over the last few weeks because of a huge rant he had on the air. Dukes has been a big Radio name for […]

Rosie the Riveter is a well-known American icon.  Known as a feminist icon, Rosie represented American women who worked during World War II. The women represented by Rosie the Riveter worked in factories and manufacturing plants that produced munitions and war supplies.  These women sometimes took an entirely new job, in order to replace the jobs that […]

William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer had a large influence of the news that people received in the late 1800s.  The news they offered often was not accurate: Hearst and Pulitzer reported on sensational stories, which were usually highly exaggerated or ficticious. The Spanish American War, many argue, may have been started by William Randolph […]