When Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg he likely had no idea how this action would change the world. As the video below shows, his initial action set off a chain of events that would change the world. That being said, what Martin Luther did […]
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As distribution systems have evolved over the last few centuries, journalism has been forced to evolve as well. Over time the shift in these systems have had both positive and negative effects on journalism over time. Distribution systems have always had an impact on journalism. In the early days of the printing press, before movable […]
Velocity and Journalism: A complicated relationship
Posted by: Alec Moore | March 29, 2016 | No Comment |Looking into the history of journalism we can see as early as 3500 B.C. that velocity was important to news as the Chinese domestication of the horse was used to increase the speed of news. Today with the rise of the Internet and other instant communication technologies, velocity has increased dramatically for both better and […]
Circulation has always been a critical part of the business of journalism as well as the practical reason for producing journalism in the first place. We can see examples of this throughout the history of journalism as well as today. When the first mass media outlets in the form of printers who owned printing presses […]
Roman contribution to journalism: the politics section
Posted by: Alec Moore | March 15, 2016 | No Comment |As journalism began to increase in popularity as printing presses came about, many of the stories were focused on crime or war stories. Though some of these stories had political aspects to them, nothing had quite as much focus on politics as the Acta Senatus had centuries before this development. The Acta Senatus was Julius Caesar‘s […]
Roman contributions to journalism: the gossip column
Posted by: Alec Moore | March 1, 2016 | No Comment |In today’s world saturated by media, we can hardly go anywhere without encountering some form of journalism. If you go to a Starbucks you will undoubtedly find copies of the Washington Post and New York Times. If you go to a grocery store, as you check out you will see hundreds of magazines clamoring for […]
Roman contributions to journalism: The acta
Posted by: Alec Moore | February 23, 2016 | No Comment |The Roman acta was the first example of a newspaper to be produced in Western civilization. The acta began being posted publicly in 59 BCE during the reign of Julius Caesar, and its contents were actually similar to the newspapers of today. There were two different types of acta when Caesar decided to make the […]
German contributions to journalism: The printing press
Posted by: Alec Moore | February 16, 2016 | No Comment |Though Germany has made many contributions to journalism, none are comparable to the invention of Johannes Gutenberg. Though printing presses were already a popular technology at the time, the simple invention of movable type would change the world. Before Gutenberg’s invention, printing was both a time consuming and incredibly expensive process. In fact, during Gutenberg’s […]
German contributions to journalism: Martin Luther
Posted by: Alec Moore | February 9, 2016 | No Comment |In 1455 Johannes Gutenberg created what may be the greatest invention in the history of journalism. In 1517, a young man named Martin Luther would challenge Gutenberg for the position as the most influential German in the history of journalism when he nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg. At […]
In 1455, Johannes Gutenberg created something that changed his world forever and helped shape the society we live in today. Though many may already know this creation was the Gutenberg Bible and that his invention was movable type for printing presses, ask those same individuals to name another fact about Gutenberg’s life and they will likely […]