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COM 135 Introduction to Journalism

“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom – it’s gone.”
Edward R. Murrow

Today’s Concepts
Yellow Journalism
Hearst v. Pulitzer
Magazine Journalism – The Muckrakers
Radio News
Television News
What now - ????

A time in the late 1800s where two of New York’s newspapers engaged in fierce competition.
Pulitzer’s World and Hearst’s Journal
Highlights included sensationalized headlines, lavish photographs, stories of sin and sex, comics, and features.
Named “yellow” because of the first color comic, The Yellow Kid by Richard Outcault.
Yellow Journalism

Hearst v. Pulitzer
Battle led to higher circulation.
William Randolph Hearst
New York Journal
Joseph Pulitzer
The World
The two newspaper men battled for readers in late 1800s News York.
Their legendary battle climaxed with the Spanish-American War in Cuba.

Hearst v. Pulitzer
Both legacies continue today.
William Randolph Hearst
New York Journal
Joseph Pulitzer
The World
Hearst’s legacy is that of the first media “mogul” – owning magazines, movie studios, and several newspapers across the country.
Pulitzer left yellow journalism behind and founded the first school of journalism, at Columbia University. He established the Pulitzer Prize, to encourage journalistic excellence.

Muckraking: reporters who used a style of early 1900s investigative journalism that emphasized a willingness to crawl around in society’s muck to uncover a story
Characterized by journalists seeking social justice on important issues of the day such as education, shady business practices, and health.
McClure’s and Collier’s were two magazines that thrived off muckraking reports. Examples: 1902, Ida Tarbell’s “The History of Standard Oil”, and Lincoln Steffens’ “Shame of the Cities”
Magazine Journalism & The “Muckrakers”

Muckraking led to SOCIAL REFORM movements like Congress passing the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
Teddy Roosevelt named these type of reporters “muckrakers”

Began in 1920s
Became first medium to provide 24 hour news coverage
Characterized by dramatic delivery and short, concise writing
Public flocked to radio’s use of dramatic theatrics and music
Radio became mass medium during Great Depression.
It was “free entertainment” once you purchased the radio.
We see rise of networks – NBC and CBS
Newspaper publishers were concerned readers would stop buying newspapers
Radio News

Radio News
Notable Radio News Events:
Edward R. Murrow’s World War II reports
Charles Lindbergh’s flight
Hindenburg Disaster
War of the Worlds – Orson Welles
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats”

Television News
Added pictures to dramatic writing
Came after “newsreels”
Those were film-style video news pieces shown in movie theaters
Networks NBC and CBS move to television – 1939 begin commercial television broadcasts
Television journalism didn’t really take off until the 1960s
Newsman Edward R. Murrow moves from radio to television

Television News
Notable Television News Events
President Kennedy’s Assassination – 1963
Vietnam War – 1960s-70s
Moon Landing – 1969
Walter Cronkite Anchors CBS News – 1968-1981
President Nixon Resigns - 1974
Ted Turner Founds CNN - 1980

How are these news mediums functioning today?
Newspapers
Magazines
Radio
Television

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by Jill Falk on Sep 06, 2011

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