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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Have you heard of The Village Voice? It began as a neighborhood paper in Greenwich Village but ultimately changed journalism. As Louis Menand explains in “It Took A Village: How the Voice changed journalism,” The Village Voice changed what it meant to be a journalist. The Village Voice was founded by Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf […]
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Tags: Heather Blevins, History, Journalism, journalism history, news history, Superblog, The Village Voice, timeline
Tags: Heather Blevins, History, Journalism, journalism history, news history, Superblog, The Village Voice, timeline
With the recent progression of the Occupy movement, the concept of citizen journalism has become increasingly more interesting to me. This interest, in part, is derived from the recent media attention focusing on police brutality (primarily pepper-spraying) at the Occupy protests. The most recently highlighted attack occurred at the University of California, Davis. Video of […]
Twitter: entertainment or hard news source?
Posted by: heatherblevins | November 15, 2011 | No Comment |For everyone who has ever found themselves using TweetDeck, it is easy to draw parallels between sensationalism and Twitter. For example, when the report of a possible gunman at Virginia Tech hit the Twitterverse in August, sensationalist posts flooded newsfeeds throughout the duration of the day. This caused the incident to be the topic of […]
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Traditionally, newspapers primarily contained information about war, crime and other hard news relevant to the community it was distributed in. So, when did sensationalism and yellow journalism come into play? This video explains.
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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
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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
It’s almost hard to believe The New York Times was founded as a penny paper in 1851. But then again, it’s not surprising. Of course a newspaper of such prestige was a part of the revolutionary penny press era. The penny press made significant contributions to the newspaper industry. While the penny press is known […]
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Tags: Benjamin Day, Heather Blevins, History of Journalism, Journalism, newspapers, The Penny Press
Tags: Benjamin Day, Heather Blevins, History of Journalism, Journalism, newspapers, The Penny Press
Does yellow journalism deserve its bad rap?
Posted by: heatherblevins | September 6, 2011 | No Comment |Yellow journalism has a notoriously bad reputation. Placing more importance on scandal-mongering and sensationalism than facts has condemned yellow journalism as bad journalism. And some professional journalists dispute whether it is a form of journalism at all. So, does yellow journalism deserve its bad reputation? Jim Romenesko addresses this issue, quoting Jack Shafer, who says […]
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Tags: Heather Blevins, Jack Shafer, Jim Romenesko, John D. Stevens, news history, tabloids, yellow journalism
Tags: Heather Blevins, Jack Shafer, Jim Romenesko, John D. Stevens, news history, tabloids, yellow journalism