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How to choose the big story

Posted by: | September 14, 2014 | No Comment |

Every week I look forward to getting my issue of  “People Magazine.” I always wonder what news this week will be on the cover page. I really thought for the week of September 15, the cover would have at the very least, a small bock mentioning the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the beheading of […]

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Jane Grey Swisshelm

Posted by: | October 9, 2012 | No Comment |

On Thursday October 4, 2012 Senate Historian Donald Richie came and spoke to the History of Journalism course. Donald Richie is the historian for the United States Senate. He came and spoke to the class regarding the access to Congress and the relationship that the city of Washington D.C. has with the reporters that cover/covered […]

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In the 3rd chapter of Discovering the News, Schudson discusses two types of journalism in the 1890’s that influenced the journalism standards we see today. These two types of journalism are “journalism as entertainment,” and “journalism as information.” Schudson starts out by asking two important questions about these two types of journalism. “What is it […]

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In Chapter 3 of Michael Schudson’s book, Discovering the News, he discusses journalism as entertainment from Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World, and journalism as information from the rise of the New York Times. Shudson begins the chapter by discussing how at the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was always a division among […]

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