Juggling justifications: modifications to the National Television
Station Ownership rule.(Report)
When Viacom and CBS merged in 1999 and News Corporation acquired
Chris Craft's 10 television stations in 2000, both combinations
violated the National Television Station Ownership rule (NTSO), a . . .
Convergence concerns in local television: conflicting views from
the newsroom.(Survey)
Just 10 years ago, the primary duties of reporters and producers at
local television news affiliates were to fill the newscasts with live
shots, packages, good writing, and plenty of video. But in . . .
A note from the editor-select.(Editorial)
The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media has, for many
years, been one of the top-tier journals in which media scholars
publish. In September 2007, I become the editor-select of this . . .
A journey with the Washington Press Corps.(Reporting from
Washington: The history of the Washington Press Corps)(Book
review)
Ritchie, D. A. (2005). Reporting from Washington: The history of
the Washington Press Corps. New York: Oxford University Press. 432
pages.
Donald A. Ritchie's analytical rigor and attention . . .
Listener supported: The culture and history of public radio: NPR:
The trials and triumphs of National Public Radio.(Book review)
Mitchell, J. W. (2005). Listener supported: The culture and history
of public radio. Westport, CT: Praeger. 220 pages.
McCauley, M. P. (2005). NPR: The trials and triumphs of National
Public . . .
Prime-time television: A concise history: Interpreting
television: Television: The critical view.(Book review)
Moore, B., Bensman, M. R., & Van Dyke, J. (2006). Prime-time
television: A concise history. Westport, CT: Praeger. 305 pages.
Lury, K. (2005). Interpreting television. London: Hodder . . .
9XM talking: WHA radio and the Wisconsin idea.(Book
review)
Davidson, R. (2006). 9XM talking: WHA radio and the Wisconsin idea.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 405 pages.
As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in the 1970s, I
walked to . . .
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and
Broadcasting in America since 1941.(Book review)
Baughman, J. L. (2006). The republic of mass culture: Journalism,
filmmaking, and broadcasting in America since 1941 (3d ed.). Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press. 320 pages.
When James . . .
The quieted voice: The rise and demise of localism in American
radio.(Critical essay)
Hilliard, R. L, & Keith, M. C. (2005). The quieted voice: The
rise and demise of localism in American radio. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press. 213 pages.
For the 8 decades that the . . .
The long road to radio studies.
For most of the medium's existence there has been an
insufficient effort by academics and scholars to assess and acknowledge
radio's role in American culture. Barbara D. Savage, author . . .
A universal speaking service: the role of Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company in the development of National Network
Radio transmission evolved into something new on November 2, 1920.
On Election Day a recently established radio station in East Pittsburgh,
KDKA, reported the election results to a public that was . . .
Regulating the government's airwaves: creation of the
Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC).
As new media technologies evolve, many become
necessities--telegraph, telephone, and undersea cable in the 19th
century, for example, and radio, television, cable, and satellite
television in the . . .
The pigskin and the picture tube: the National Football
League's first full season on the CBS Television Network.(Columbia
Broad
When the New York Giants and the San Francisco Forty-Niners kicked
off a new NFL season on September 30, 1956, (1) the Columbia
Broadcasting System became the first network to broadcast a full . . .
A guest in our living room: the television newscaster before the
rise of the dominant anchor.
The changing face of network television news during the past few
years has sparked renewed debate on the future of television news. But
the death of Peter Jennings as well as the disappearance from . . .
Radio prototype: Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's Hear
It Now.
Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's See It Now has long been
saluted as a pioneering television news program (e.g., Leab, 1983).
Particularly renowned is the program's 1954 expose of . . .
News directors and consultants: RTNDA's endorsement of TV
journalism's "greatest tool".(Radio-Television News
Directors Associat
As scholars consider the commercial values modern newscasts exude,
business theories are widely cited in studies of television news. With
this trend, however, comes a problem: how to treat . . .
Developing a television genre: Table Talk with Helen
Sioussat.
The television tube warmed, the black-and-white screen flickered,
and the image of four people sitting around a coffee table soon
appeared. "Ladies and gentlemen," a male voice with a slight
New . . .
Editor's note: why teach historiography or study media
history?
Investigative journalism, producing documentaries, and the writing
of history are tempestuous parallels (Godfrey, 2006). Indeed, a famous
quote often attributed to Philip Graham of the Washington . . .
Kathleen Hall Jamieson: "Finding Out" what matters in
the world of national politics.(Electing the President 2004: The
Insiders'
Romer, D., Kenski, K., Winneg, K., Adasiewicz, C., & Jamieson,
K. H. (2006). Capturing campaign dynamics 2000 and 2004: The National
Annenberg Election Survey. Philadelphia: University of . . .
Investigated reporting: Muckrakers, regulators, and the struggle
over television documentary.(Book review)
Raphael, C. (2005). Investigated reporting: Muckrakers, regulators,
and the struggle over television documentary. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press. 304 pages.
Investigated Reporting is an . . .
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