Inside the Upheaval of Journalism
Reporters Look Back on 50 Years of Covering the News
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Edited By Ted Gest and Dotty Brown
In the spring of 1969, 101 students received master’s degrees from Columbia University’s prestigious School of Journalism, where they had learned the trade as it was then practiced. Most hoped to start a career in newspapers, radio, television or magazines, the established forms of journalism of that era. Little did they realize how the news world they were entering would be upended by the internet and by the social forces that would sweep through the country over the next 50 years.
This book tells the story of the news media revolution through the eyes of those in the Class of 1969 who lived it and helped make it happen. It is an insider’s look at the reshaping of the Fourth Estate and the information Americans now get and don’t get—crucial aspects of the vibrancy of democracy.
Index
Extract
A
ABC News 26–27, 37–38, 40, 51–52, 147
abortion 34, 144
Accidental Anchorwoman (Tolliver) 51
Ackerman, Carl 33, 176–177
Advocate, The 8–9
Africa, coverage of 82–84, 119
African Americans 8, 37, 47–61, 107, 155
AIDS 114–121
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