Final exam reminder

Just a reminder that your final exam is tomorrow, Tuesday at 8 a.m. Bring a red scantron form and a pencil.

Be sure to be on time as after the first person turns in his or her exam, no one will be admitted to take the exam.

Good luck!

Exam Reminder

Hello. Just a reminder that your third exam is tomorrow, Thursday.

Your final exam is next Tuesday at 8 a.m.

Be sure to be on time as after the first person turns in his or her exam, no one will be admitted to take the exam.

Helen Thomas

During the years Helen Thomas covered President Kennedy, she was the first woman to close a presidential news conference with the traditional "Thank you, Mr. President."

Thomas served as President of the Women's National Press Club in 1959 - 60, and she was the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it opened its doors to women members for the first time in 90 years. In addition, Thomas became the first woman officer of the White House Correspondents Association in its 50 years of existence, and served as its first woman president in 1975-76. Thomas also became the first woman member of the Gridiron Club in its history, and the first woman to be elected President in 1993.

Here is more about her.

New York Times & leaking documents

CNN

Hostage Crisis

Here is a PBS project on the 444 days. Here is another installment.

Nightline

No international story other than war dominated American television news for as long as the Iranian hostage crisis. The seizure of the staff of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 marked the beginning of fourteen months of concentrated, dramatic, and controversial news coverage that affected both public understanding of the hostage crisis and government efforts to resolve it.

Here is a look back at Nightline 30 years after it was created.

Attempt on Reagan

Al Neuharth

Who is Al Neuharth?

Discrimination lawsuit

Here is more about Christine Craft who filed a broadcast journalism discrimination lawsuit in the 1980s.



These are the plaintiffs in the Daily News 4 discrimination lawsuit. It ended in a settlement, as did the other lawsuits. It was settled after a jury made a decision but before damages were awarded. Here is a clip on the case.

Max Robinson

9/11

Here is a collection of newspaper front pages from 9/11.

Jessica Savage

Here is information about Jessica Savage.

60 Minutes

CBS and 60 Minutes take on the tobacco industry.

Tuesday's class

Hello. As noted in the syllabus, in place of a class meeting today, please watch the Barbara Walters video and the Ed Bradley videos on this blog. Think about how their careers fit into the timeline of women and African Americans in journalism that we have discussed in class and the material on this blog. Also, consider their roles as "firsts." We will address these issues in class on Thursday.

Barbara Walters

Ed Bradley

The above is a tribute to Ed Bradley.



This is from one of his most famous interviews.



Here Bradley discusses the interview.

More lawsuits

Here is more about Christine Craft who filed a broadcast journalism discrimination lawsuit in the 1980s.



These are the plaintiffs in the Daily News 4 discrimination lawsuit. It ended in a settlement, as did the other lawsuits. It was settled after a jury made a decision but before damages were awarded. Here is a clip on the case.

National Press Club

From Girls in the Balcony by Nan Robertson regarding the 1955 decision by the National Press Club:

“Here were the people in the balcony, distinguished journalists treated like second-class citizens. I had to cover the stories there. Some people equated the balcony with the back of the bus, but at least the bus got everybody to the same destination just as well. We could not ask questions of the speakers. You entered and left through a back door. It was discrimination at its rawest .”

-- Bonnie Angelo, chief of the Newsday bureau in Washington

The National Press Club accepted women as members in 1971.

Shirley Christian

Shirley Christian is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Her most recent book, Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty that Ruled America’s Frontier, was published in April 2004 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, The Miami Herald and the Associated Press.

She lived and worked in numerous countries of Latin America for nearly 20 years, and in New York and Washington, winning the Pulitzer for international reporting in 1981 for articles published in The Miami Herald about the wars in Central America. Her first book, Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, was published in 1985 by Random House.

Women and journalism lawsuits

Above is a memo from the plaintiffs' lawyer in the A.P. lawsuit: an example of good history. (It's from the National Women & Media Collection at the University of Missouri.)Few newspapers or television stations covered the cases beyond a brief mention.



Here is a link about Mary Lou Butcher. That's her in the photo above.

Here is information on Betsy Wade Boylan.

Exam II Grades

The results of the second exam are now available on MyUCF Grades.

If you have "-1" for your grade, it means you wrote your PID incorrectly. I have to wait to get the scantron sheets to record your grade.

Three-state strategy

The red states have not approved the E.R.A.

Here is a list of FAQ about the E.R.A.

Here is information about the three-state strategy.

More ERA images

Florida ERA images

Alice Paul - author of the E.R.A.

Exam 2 Today!

Hello. Just a reminder that your second exam is today, Thursday, as noted in your syllabus. This cannot be rescheduled.

Review the study guide and check your notes and the reading. Also, take a look through this blog.

** You may not begin to take the exam after the first exam is turned in - BE ON TIME.

Bring your scantron and a pencil. Good luck!

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

More civil rights coverage

Here is a link to a documentary clip about the Little Rock Nine, fifty years later.

Here is a link to footage on sit-ins in Miami.

Birmingham Church Boming

Black and ethnic press

Here is a link to the documentary, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, shown on PBS.

Pay extra attention to Charlotta Bass, Robert L. Vann, John Henry Murphy, Ida B. Wells and Robert S. Abbott.

Media coverage of the Watts riots

Here is background on the Watts riots.

Freedom Riders

Civil Rights Coverage in Southern Newspapers

The Lexington Herald-Leader featured a prominent clarification on its front page in July 2004, apologizing for the newspaper's failures in covering the 1960s civil rights movement.

Here's a story about the apology.

Here is link to a multi-media civil rights comparative history project from the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Thursday's speaker

Here is a clip of Thursday's speaker, Jerry Mitchell, from the Colbert Report.

Syllabus change

Hello. Just a reminder that we will be going over chapter 7 on Tuesday and that journalist Jerry Mitchell will be speaking to our class on Thursday. Please be on time.

Because we will have class on Tuesday, the study guide will be given out on that day.

In addition, Mitchell will be speaking in the Student Union's Pegasus Ballroom on October 19th starting at 6 p.m. as the COS Distinguished Speaker. This presentation is open to the public.

Exam 1

Hello. This is a reminder that your grades are listed on MyUCF.

Here is my MyUCF help desk, if needed.

Watergate & Deep Throat

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Watergate & the Washington Post

Here is a link to the papers of Woodward and Bernstein located at the University of Texas. It includes primary documents, including their original notes on Watergate, and an extended interview.

Thursday's class

Hello. As noted in the syllabus, there is no class meeting on Thursday. Instead, you are to watch this short documentary about Dallas women's page editor Vivian Castleberry. Here is a link - click on the third video on the middle/right side of your screen. It's about 30 minutes long.

As you watch, take notes on the following and bring it to class next Tuesday:

1.) How did World War II impact her career?
2.) How did she redefine women's news in Dallas?
3.) What were some of the groundbreaking stories that she covered?
4.) What methods did she use to make change at her newspaper?
5.) What impact did she have on her community?

I hope you enjoy learning about Vivian. She is a favorite of mine.

Pentagon Papers

Kent State Massacre

Walter Cronkite

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Here is the text of the Cronkite broadcast on the Vietnam War mentioned in the book.

Here a story about Cronkite and the FBI files.

Vietnam War, the media and President Johnson

Here is a link to images and an analysis of the Vietnam War, the media and President Johnson.

Dickey Chapelle

Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle (1919-1965) became one of the first female war correspondents, covering World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam Here is more about her life.



On the morning of November 4, 1965, Chapelle was killed by a land mine while on patrol with a platoon, becoming the first war correspondent killed in Vietnam and the first female reporter to die in combat.

Eddie Adams & Vietnam War

Exam 1 is on Thursday

Hello. Just a reminder that your first exam is tomorrow, Thursday, as noted in your syllabus. This cannot be rescheduled.

Review the study guide and check your notes and the reading. Also, take a look through this blog.

A study guide is by definition rather general. The names on the list are a guide to help you study but not intended to cover every question. So, you should know who Eljah Lovejoy is and why he is important. Yet, because he in not on the list, I would not expect you to know the different newspapers he edited or the year he died - the specifics.

** You may not begin to take the exam after the first exam is turned in - BE ON TIME.

Bring your scantron and a pencil. Good luck!

Joe & Shirley Wershba (movie version)

Broadcast History

Here is a link to the Museum of Broadcast Communication.

Army-McCarthy Hearings

More Cold War Prop

Nixon-Kennedy Debate

Yesterday, Saturday, was the anniversary of the Nixon-Kennedy Debate. Here is a story about it.



Here is more about the significance of the debate.

Cold War Prop

Joseph Wershba clip (the person Robert Downy Jr. plays)

This week

Hello all. Just a reminder that the class’s graduate assistant Ryan will be playing the movie “Good Night, and Good Luck,” this week over both class periods. On Tuesday, you will receive a guide for the movie. On Thursday, Ryan will hand out the study guide for the first exam. We will go over chapter 10 on the following week.

I will be in Dallas this week giving talks about Dallas journalist Vivian Castleberry - we will talk about her later this semester.

If you have any questions, please email me at: voss.kimberly@gmail.com

I hope you enjoy the movie!

Good Night and Good Luck

Integration of the Armed Forces

Here is a link to documents about President Truman's integration of the armed forces.

Dorothea Lange images

This photo, Migrant Mother, is one you may have seen before in textbooks. It was shot in a California migrant labor camp in 1936.



Here is an image that was shot by Lange the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked. It is the storefront of a Japanese American business.



Here is an image Lange shot in an internment camp in San Francisco in April 1942.

Joe Rosenthal

Here is Joe Rosenthal's famous photo. Here is more information about him.

Ernie Pyle

Here are Ernie Pyle images.

Here are his wartime columns.

Returning women to the home

Here is a quote about the wartime waivers.

WW II, government records & propaganda

Here is a link to OWI Records.

Through Open Records, we learned that chef Julia Child was a spy during WW II.

Here is a list of accredited WWII women journalists.


Here is a link to government propaganda.

Radio History

Here is a good resource for the history of radio in Central Florida.

Here is an overview of early American radio history.



Yet, this researcher has questioned the true reaction to the broadcast.

WWII and Rosie the Riveter

Above is one of the best-known propaganda posters of Rosie the Riveter which aimed to get middle-class women into the workforce. Here is more about how it was used in the media.



Above is the Norman Rockwell image of Rosie - the one described in your book. Notice the difference between the magazine cover and the government version.

Magazine history

The above is the cover of 1941 Life Magazine. Google.Images has archived the covers and images from the magazine.



This a cover of a 1923 Time Magazine. Here is a link to the Time archives. Here are some covers regarding World War II.

Bell, California

Here is a link to a story about the corruption in Bell, California.

Muckrakers

Ida Tarbell wrote a series of magazine articles detailing the business practices of Standard Oil, which appeared in McClure's and later were published in book form as The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904).

Lincoln Steffens, an investigator of corruption in state and municipal governments, published Shame of the Cities in 1904.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) was largely responsible for federal legislation regulating food and drug practices.

Thomas Nast & Harper's Weekly

Here is information about Thomas Nast.

Harry Burns and the vote

Here is the column about Harry Burns that we discussed in class.

Iron Jawed Angels

Here is a link to the website for the film Iron Jawed Angels.

Here is a link to the cast information.