“Asking who is a journalist is the wrong question, because journalism can be produced by anyone” –The American Press Institute This quote epitomizes the changing role of a journalist over the course of history. Today, a journalist is anyone who commits an act of journalism. This is quite different than the definition of a journalist in […]
Archive for October, 2014
under: Comm 455
Tags: A History of News, ethics, Evan Petschke, History of Journalism, journalism ethics, journalist
Tags: A History of News, ethics, Evan Petschke, History of Journalism, journalism ethics, journalist
Catalonia: A history of oppression and disrespect
Posted by: brianjblend | October 28, 2014 | 1 Comment |On September 11, 1714, after 14 months of siege, Barcelona fell to Spanish forces fighting for the Borbon king Phillip V; thus sealing the fate of the, then independent, Principality of Catalonia as one of Spain’s conquered communities. Following years of industrialization and rapid economic growth, in 1913 Catalonia was able to assert itself and […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: anarchism, catalan, catalonia, communism, fascism, franco, History, independence, Propaganda, spain, Spanish Civil War
Tags: anarchism, catalan, catalonia, communism, fascism, franco, History, independence, Propaganda, spain, Spanish Civil War
The impact of daily newspapers on business in the 18th century
Posted by: kponcian | October 28, 2014 | No Comment |In London in 1730, The Daily Advertiser began publication. This daily newspaper offered advertising space with news of politics, commerce, and society. Stanley Morison, a journalism historian, stated in our book that The Daily Advertiser was the “first modern newspaper” that “gained a hold on the commercial classes which it never lost.” This success caused […]
under: Comm 455, Local news, newspapers
Tags: 18th century, British newspapers, business, daily newspapers, History, Kponcian, local newspapers, newspapers
Tags: 18th century, British newspapers, business, daily newspapers, History, Kponcian, local newspapers, newspapers
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 […]
Every time the weather gets the slightest bit chilly in the fall, people freak out about the weather being cold. Personally, I love cold weather and I cannot wait for the snow. I just don’t get why people are such winter haters. If you hate winter weather, don’t live where it is cold. Of course, […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: cold weather, new england, northern virginia, Opinion, pumpkin spice latte, rachelshubin, seasons, snow days, winter
Tags: cold weather, new england, northern virginia, Opinion, pumpkin spice latte, rachelshubin, seasons, snow days, winter
As an investigative journalist, I thought for the week of Halloween I would investigate a very common Halloween hoax that comes up year after year. Is Halloween candy collected from trick-or-treating safe to eat? According to the Halloween poisoning page on snopes.com , the rumors of poisoned candy being distributed to children on Halloween is false. The […]
A web without a spider: the impact of the internet on society
Posted by: nakedraygun | October 27, 2014 | No Comment |The internet. It’s influence is undeniable. People everywhere around the planet are logged in and almost unknowingly succumbing to the role it plays on their lives, certainly more so than any other social medium since the invention of the newspaper. Essentially, it has created kind of a revolution in society, allowing people from all over […]
under: Comm 455
Lowell Thomas, writer, traveler, broadcaster, was the first ever live television news broadcaster. His broadcast aired on NBC network in 1939. It was a short stint that aired once a week and were summary type shows. The show did not last very long and there are numerous accounts to why. First, It was said that Lowell […]
Nellie Bly, pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, was an American journalist who launched a new kind of investigative journalism. She broke the record of Jules Verne’s fictional character Phileas Fogg from “Around the World in 80 Days” by famously globe-trotting, at 25 and unchaperoned, in 72 days. Bly also faked insanity for an undercover assignment […]
Politricks 2: Why a consumer-based economy needs a republican
Posted by: nakedraygun | October 21, 2014 | No Comment |“What’s great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: BMW, buy, capitalism, consume, consumerism, Economy, Geroge Bush, goods, Heineken, Invidisible Hand, McDonalds, republican, W
Tags: BMW, buy, capitalism, consume, consumerism, Economy, Geroge Bush, goods, Heineken, Invidisible Hand, McDonalds, republican, W
The haze: storytelling’s influence on early American newspapers
Posted by: kasibumgarner | October 21, 2014 | No Comment |Although the rise of print journalism helped to improve the accuracy of news being spread, it didn’t escape the influence of storytelling/word of mouth completely, especially about international affairs. Mitchell Stephens refers to this phenomenon in our text as “The Haze”, a factor that causes events out of the region’s range “to be seen in […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: Comm 455, false reports, international news, kasibumgarner, napoleon, Storytelling, the haze, Velocity
Tags: Comm 455, false reports, international news, kasibumgarner, napoleon, Storytelling, the haze, Velocity