Comm455/History of Journalism

Movie rental conglomerate Netflix recently announced that the price of renting films on their site would double by September of this year. Well, September came around and Netflix lost 600,000 members in the U.S. alone. Yesterday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sent out an amiable email to all customers announcing the introduction of Quikster, a Netflix […]

Ever heard of the band Tea Party? Of course not, unless you’ve been living in Canada for the past decade or two. And even then it might be a stretch for anyone reading this blog to say “Oh… yeah. Tea Party. “The Edges of Twilight” was a wicked awesome album… eh?” But now these crooning […]

While it is easy to assume that the term muckraking only refers to political reporters in the 1800’s, the act is still performed today. A new term has been coined. Investigative journalism is a widespread act of exposure. Instead of reporting a feature story or even hard news, investigative reporters are in the business of […]

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:

View “War reporting: from Herodotus to photojournalists” on Storify

Great Britain has given us many things. The Spice Girls. David Beckham. Penicillin. But they have also given us great contributions to the world of journalism. In 1624, the first newspaper ad was printed and just a couple of years later they printed the first correction that increased newspaper credibility. With the end of the British […]

While electrical telegraphy had proved beneficial since the early 1840s — even phasing out the Pony Express as the main news transmitter– there was one major imitation: wires.  The transmission was the fastest of its time. However, wires limited where that signal could be sent. In order to send a message, telegraph wires had to connect the sending […]

A D.C. area Starbucks’ customer got more than he bargained for when he took his little girl to use the bathroom. Family Sues Over Hidden Bathroom Camera Taking Pictures Of 5-Year-Old Girl In DC Starbucks | wusa9.com  WASHINGTON (WUSA) — A five year old girl is now terrified to use the restroom after discovering a […]

[View the story “Where opinion is heading” on Storify]

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A handmade Gutenberg letterpress used to make wedding announcements.