Press in America

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Women in Old School Journalism (Last Blog Post)

Read the linked article. Discuss what you find most interesting, surprising, or shocking about the conditions it describes and why. Your response is due by Sunday, Nov. 24, 4 p.m.

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3552133?n=267&s=4&printThumbnails=no

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35gbEFUG_E

And a link to photos of newsboys, many by Jacob Riis:

http://www.google.com/search?q=newsboy+photography+jacob+riis&nord=1&rlz=1W1ADFA_enUS401&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=BAuOUujPB-yQyQHR0YGgDg&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1093&bih=434

Monday, November 18, 2013

Why We Were the Way We Were

Please read the article linked below. In a response due Wed., Nov. 20, by 4 p.m., describe how Smythe's explanation for how journalism operated in the era under examination differs from Streitmatter's.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~c019091s/Reporter.html

Link to "Front Page"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZsq52_-rz0

Monday, November 11, 2013

Working Conditions of Reporters

http://www.uiowa.edu/~c019091s/Reporter.html

http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3552133?n=267&s=4&printThumbnails=no

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20131101%2FBIZ%2F131109976

A Worker Reads History

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8503711-A_Worker_Reads_History-by-Bertolt_Brecht

Monday, November 4, 2013

Positives of the Internet

By Wed., Nov. 6, at 4 p.m., please post on the blog a link to a Web site or blog that to you illustrates the benefits of the Internet for either journalism or the culture at large. Be prepared to explain your example to the class on Thursday, Nov. 7.

The blog posts have been largely ignored by some of you, who are accumulating F's at an alarming rate. I have done what I can to motivate participation. The actual participation is your responsibility and, I suppose, choice.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Who Owns the Future? (3)

Below please find a link to a story about technological obsolescence. Discuss how the last part of Lanier's book might help us to understand and/or cope with this phenomenon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magazine/why-apple-wants-to-bust-your-iphone.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Your response is due by 4 p.m., Sun., Nov. 3.