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Defining Moments in Journalism.

Woodhull, Nancy J.

Defining Moments in Journalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (196 pages)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The 1940s -- Chapter 1: The Murrow Boys-Broadcasting for the Mind's Eye -- Part II: The 1950s -- Chapter 2: The Lessons of Little Rock -- Part III: The 1960s -- Chapter 3: The Black Vanguard Integrates Newsrooms -- Chapter 4: Covering Ali, Discovering an Era -- Chapter 5: Vietnam and War Reporting -- Part IV: The 1970s -- Chapter 6: Ruben Salazar-Misunderstood Martyr -- Chapter 7: Past and Present at Wounded Knee -- Chapter 8: The Weight of Watergate -- Chapter 9: Newspapers for Working People -- Part V: The 1980s -- Chapter 10: We've Come a Long Way-Maybe -- Chapter 11: Newsman Meets Batman -- Chapter 12: Women Sportswriters-Business as Usual -- Part VI: The 1990s -- Chapter 13: Live, From the Persian Gulf War -- Chapter 14: A Strategy of Rape in Bosnia -- Chapter 15: Polling and "What If?" Journalism -- Chapter 16: Expanding the Language of Photographs -- Chapter 17: The Connie Chung Phenomenon -- Chapter 18: Covering Politics-Is There a Female Difference? -- Chapter 19: Does the Internet Change News Reporting? Not Quite -- Part VII: Portfolio -- Chapter 20: Photojoumalists-Visionaries Who Have Changed Our Vision -- Chapter 21: Editorial Cartoonists-An Endangered Species? -- Part VIII: Review Essay -- Chapter 22: That's the Way It Was -- For Further Reading -- Index.

Looking back does not come easily to journalists, immersed as they are in breaking events. But there is good reason for those who practise and study journalism to consider the critical episodes in its evolution and in this collection, such authors describe in detail episodes of this kind.

9781351321273


Journalism-United States-History-20th century.


Electronic books.

PN4867 .D445 2018

071/.3/0904

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