Radio Journalism in America

Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves.Americans were dependent on radio for cheap entertainment during the Great Depression and for critical information during the Second World War, when no other medium could approach its speed and accessibility. Radio's diminished influence in the age of television beginning in the 1950s is studied, as the aural medium shifted from being at the core of many families' activities to more specialized applications, reaching narrowly defined listener bases. Many people turned elsewhere for the news. (And now even TV is challenged by yet newer media.) The introduction of technological marvels throughout the past hundred years has significantly altered what Americans hear and how, when, and where they hear it.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-04-29
Mått178 x 254 x 14 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786469635

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cool Stuff and History Light1. Hard Copies: The Origins of American Newspapers2. The Origins of Electronic Journalism3. “Millions Are Out Here Listening Every Day!”4. Who Owns the Ether? It Belongs to Us All5. Censorship: Pressures from Without, Within6. The Art of Persuasion: Everybody Has a Bias7. Nights of the Roundtable: Clashes, Conﬂicts Courted8. At All Hours: News Achieves Parity, Perceptibly Prospers9. Journalism’s Inducement in a Rise of Local Stations10. Consequences of Radio’s Reliance on Print11. The Fanzines: Trade Issues to Perpetuate the Industry12. Optical Illusions? News Fix? Boosting Aural Text with Pix13. Magazine of the Airwaves: News in a Novel Format14. When It’s Time for News, the Big Hand Is on the 2415. Baubles, Bangles, Gadgetry: New Marvels Dispatch NewsBiographical Dictionary of Radio JournalistsNotesBibliographyIndex

“an excellent overview 9781476601199of how the media has impacted journalism”—Radio Recall; “informative...highly recommend”—Milwaukee Area Radio Enthusiasts; “Cox writes in an engaging way with oodles of examples to illustrate key points...invaluable history of shortwave radio broadcasting.... Berg establishes himself as the authority on such broadcasting”—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.