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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822962803321

Titolo

Journalism, 1908 : birth of a profession / / edited by Betty Houchin Winfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8262-6669-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 356 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

WinfieldBetty Houchin <1939->

Disciplina

071/.3

Soggetti

Journalism - United States - History - 20th century

Journalism - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Emerging Professionalism and Modernity -- Part I. The Scene in 1908 -- Chapter 1. 1908: A Very Political Year for the Press -- Chapter 2. From Whiskey Ads to the Reverend Jellyfish: Media Law in 1908 -- Part II. Modernization: Journalism Comes of Age -- Chapter 3. Community Journalism: A Continuous Objective -- Chapter 4. Press Clubs Champion Journalism Education -- Chapter 5. Philosophy at Work: Ideas Made a Difference -- Part III. Institutional Rumblings and Change -- Chapter 6. Power, Irony, and Contradictions: Education and the News Business -- Chapter 7. The Age of "Glory and Risk": The Advertising Industry Finds Its Worth -- Part IV. Journalism's Extended Family -- Chapter 8. Work in Progress: Labor and the Press in 1908 -- Chapter 9. Good Women and Bad Girls: Women and Journalism in 1908 -- Part V. General Assignment Plus -- Chapter 10. Sports Journalism and the New American Character of Energy and Leisure -- Chapter 11. Enter, Stage Right: Critics Flex Their Muscles in the Heyday of Live Performances -- Chapter 12. 1908: The Beginnings of Globalization in Journalism Education -- Chapter 13. The Look of 1908: Newspaper Design's Status at a Turning Point in Journalism Education -- Part VI. Journalism's Concurrent Voices -- Chapter 14. Reform, Consume: Social Tumult on the Pages of Progressive Era Magazines -- Chapter 15. Foreign Voices Yearning to Breathe Free: The Early Twentieth-Century Immigrant Press



in the United States -- Chapter 16. Forced to the Margins: The Early Twentieth-Century African American Press -- Conclusion. 1908: The Aftermath -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"A team of media scholars with personal ties to the University of Missouri's School of Journalism explore the state of news organizations in 1908, the year in which the first university-based school of journalism was founded, and illustrate the profound impact journalism education has had on the news media"--Provided by publisher.