History Of Journalism

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Curtis Publishing Co.

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Sat. Evening Post; Ladies Home Journal; Country Gentleman; Holiday

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Franklin Era- S.E.P.

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suspended publication in 1765

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1750s-1890s

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Edgar Allen's Poe's stories appeared here; Curtis buys at end of 19th century

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Cyrus Curtis

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wanted a man's mag;

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Edward Bok

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editor of L.H.J.; married to Curtis' daughter

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George H. Lorimer

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became editor as a second thought; read EVERY letter of editor; formal man

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Motto for S.E.P.

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"An American Institution"

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Famous writers/ characters

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Crane; London; Fitzgerald; Lewis; Faulkner; O. Henry; sherlock homes; horatio hornblower; tugboat annie

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Ben Hibbs

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editor of S.E.P. after Lorimer; made changed that saved magazine

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Clay Blair Jr.

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editor of S.E.P. for two years; turned Postinto muckraking, used convicted felon as a source on a misguided Bear Bryant piece

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J.C. Leyendecker

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the New Year baby for S.E.P.; arrow collar man

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Maxfield Parrish

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ads, storybook illustrations, illustrator

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Norman Rockwell

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started at S.E.P. in 1916; "Willie Gillis"; the four freedoms; santa map

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Harrison Gray Otis

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first editor of LA Times; got things going; filled paper with his prejudice

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Harry Chandler

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married Otis' daughter; passed paper down to son

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Norman Chandler

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married Dorothy Buff Chandler; made the paper the republican party

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Kyle Palmer

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political editor of LA Times; made Nixon a household name; wanted to destroy Upton Sinclair

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Nixon

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lost presidential race in 1960; lost governor's race in 1962; loses support of Palmer, but comes back anyways

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Otis Chandler

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LA Times publisher; built it into a great newspaper

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Nick Williams

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managing editor of LA Times during Otis; helped change the way the paper was

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Paul Conrad

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cartoonist for LA Times; helped show Times was changing; Goldwater cartoon

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Jann Wenner

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editor, founder of Rolling Stone; drop out of Berkeley; did not want to be in underground press, wanted to make money

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Ralph Gleason

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music journalist; brought credibility to Wenner at RS

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Crawdaddy

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first serious rock n roll magazine by Paul Williams

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Jane Schindelheim

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Wenner's wife;

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Ed Ward

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sloppy hippie; first music editor of RS; fired because dirty

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Jon Landau

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doctorate; academically trained; rock critic at RS; became Springsteens manager

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Lester Bangs

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RS columnist; Psychotic Reaction and Carburator Dung

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Hunter S. Thompson

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air force; National Observer & S America; Hell's Angels;Freak Power- Sheriff in RS; Fear and Loathing, etc.

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Raoul Duke

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Thompson's original pen name

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Annie Leibovitz

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Had never taken a picture before become an RS photographer; now with Vanity Fair

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CBS

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purches by William Paley when 2 years old; largest and most influential broadcast system

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Paley

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started off in family cigar business; advertising; invests in CBS

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Elmer Davis

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background in newsprint, (NYT); annoying voice, broadcaster for CBS

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Ed R Murrow

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patron saint of broadcast; "voice of the war"; became an executive at CBS

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Fred Friendly

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Murrow's partner; president of CBS; resigned due to protest of Lucy rerun

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"I Can Hear It Now"

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broadcast history of first half of twentieth century

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"See It Now"

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Murrow's weekly tv show at CBS; hour long; famous McCarthy broadcast

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CBS Reports

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not exclusively a Murrow show, but did Harvest of Shame (migrant workers); very influential work

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Charles Kuralt- CBS

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grad of jou school; On the Road series; Sunday Morning show

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Walter Cronkite- CBS

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worked for papers and UPI; hosted Morning with a puppet; CBS Evening- half hour; managing editor- replaced by Dan Rather

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Mike Wallace- CBS

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founding correspondent of 60 minutes; Night Beat; Morning News

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Katherine Graham

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turned Washington Post into a great newspaper; Wellesely grad; got paper after her husband killed himself

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Philip Graham

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star at schools; married K. Meyer, given WP by her parents; bought Newsweek; killed himself in 63

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Ben Bradlee

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had worked for Newsweek; becomes managing editor of WP; watergate

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Pentagon Papers

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WP got a copy after the NYT did; was a study of department of defense on itself, managing of Vietnam

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Janet Cooke scandal

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reporter at WP who won Pulitzer; bad for Bradlee and Woodward

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Chicago Tribune

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a frontier paper in 1847; pony express; California gold rush

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David Crockett

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Col. Crockett's notebook; wrote for many years until he went to Alamo; politician, hero worshipped

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Samuel Clemens

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Mark Twain; wrote for Territorial Enterprise; becomes famous for Missouri stories; first real American voice

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Ring Lardner

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Chicago Tribune; sports writer; short stories; important to baseball; front page of Trib daily

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Walter Lippmann

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George Polk case; NY Heral Trib; a philosopher; all presidents read him

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H. L. Mencken

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Sage of Baltimore; mag editor (Mercury); American language; very intwined with American politics

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John Hersey

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Hiroshima; pulitzer for A Bell For Adono; became a critic when he thought form got out of control

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Lillian Ross

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"mother of new journalism"; portrait on Hemingway; picture profile of red badge; relationsihp w/ Shawn of New Yorker

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Gay Talese

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sports writer; Patterson, the boxer, profile; NYT, Esquire; breakthrough profile of Louis,Dimaggio, Sinatra, different way of writing; honor they neighbors wife, sex!

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Terry Southern

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Esquire; "Candy" a parody; Easy Rider; very hip

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Characteristics of New Journalism

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scene-by-scene construction; dialogue; 3rd person pov; recording of all details

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Truman Capote

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New Yorker; In Cold Blood, murder of a KS family; Breakfast at Tiffany's; never wrote anything substantial after Blood

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Joan Didion

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made shy and silence work for her; started at Vogue; S.E.P.; Slouching Towards Bethelehem

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Norman Mailer

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wanted to be like Hemingway; didn't like new journalism; narcissitic; Executioner's Song, Gary Gilmore, story of a killer