Tag Archives: journalism history
Titanic’s role in journalism
By Chris Daly On the eve of the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, I am posting an excerpt from my new book, Covering America, about the impact of the Titanic on the emerging field of “wireless telegraphy.” First, … Continue reading
Filed under broadcasting, Journalism, journalism history
“Covering America” reviewed
By Chris Daly Delighted to see this review just out from Publisher’s Weekly. Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism. Christopher B. Daly. Univ. of Massachusetts, $49.95 (544 p) ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9 In this scholarly yet readable volume, Daly … Continue reading
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Narrative in journalism’s history
NARRATIVE IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM BY CHRIS DALY [Narrative Arc conference, Boston University, March 24, 2012] I am delighted to speak briefly today about my new book, which is a narrative itself that focuses on the history of … Continue reading
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A great experiment
by Chris Daly For years, I had heard about a newspaper that once existed in New York City that carried no advertising. How could this be? I wondered. Years later, I had the chance to explore the history of that … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, journalism history, publishing, Uncategorized
Book recommendation
By Chris Daly I just finished a book that surprised me — Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage. I found it surprising because when I first picked it up, I thought it would be … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, journalism history, media
Are Journalists Always Wrong?
That’s a question I raised in the following article, which was published today in a British academic journal called Journalism Practice. I am posting it here so you don’t have to pay $35 to read it. I had to reformat … Continue reading
Filed under history, Journalism, journalism history, New York Times, The New Yorker
TIME magazine’s new “scrapbook”
By Chris Daly I can’t really make heads nor tails of TIME’s recent announcement, but the venerable news weekly seems to be trying to do something about its own history in journalism, by creating a new tumblr site. Check it out. … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, journalism history, Uncategorized
Leaks, cont.
By Chris Daly Here is a reminder that when elected officials denounce “leaks” to the news media, what they are usually talking about are unauthorized leaks. Every elected official that I ever covered or researched used leaks when they considered … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, journalism history, leaks, Uncategorized
Visualizing journalism’s history
By Chris Daly Not to be missed is this fantastic-looking new study from Stanford. It pulls together a tremendous amount of data to create a series of maps of the U.S. that depict the growth of the newspaper business at … Continue reading
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Pentagon Papers, at 40
By Chris Daly As a public service, I am once again making public my history of the Pentagon Papers case. On the 40th anniversary of the publication of the first story about the “massive leak” of top-security government documents, it … Continue reading
Filed under Covering America, history, Journalism, journalism history, New York Times, Wikileaks
