Key figures in the history of mass media

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Mass media history
MEDIA, POWER AND CULTURE

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Penny press: Names to know
• Benjamin Day, the Sun (“It Shines for All”
• James Gordon Bennett, the Herald

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Chains: Names to know
• E.W. Scripps: Cleveland Penny Press
• Joseph Pulitzer: St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
New York World
• William Randolph Hearst: San Francisco
Examiner, New York Journal
• S.I. Newhouse: The Plain Dealer, New
Orleans Times-Picayune, Newark Star-
Ledger, Portland Oregonian

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Film: Names to know
• August & Louis Lumiere: Film perforation,
projector
• Thomas Edison: Studio, “peep show”
(kinetoscope)
• D.W. Griffith: “Birth of a Nation”

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Radio: Names to know
• Guglielmo Marconi: Radio wave wireless
telegraph, Nobel in physics
• Reginald Fessenden: Vacuum tube (AM)
radio
• Edwin Armstrong: FM (1933)

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TV: Names to know
• Philo T. Farnsworth: Designed practical
electronic (not mechanical) TV system
• Vladimir Zworykin: TV camera
• Milton Berle: “Uncle Miltie”
• John Cameron Swayze: First network
news anchor

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Internet: Names to know
• Ray Tomlinson: First email (1971)
• Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn: Created TCP/IP
(lets different computers talk to one
another)
• Tim Berners-Lee: Invented WWW
• Larry Page, Sergey Brin: Founded Google

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Social media: Names to know
• Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger: Wikipedia
• Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook
• Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone: Twitter