Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism /

Title:

Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism /

Author:

Daly, Christopher B.

Published:

Amherst : c2012.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College, Emmanuel College, Lesley Sherrill

Contents:

Introduction -- The press, 1704/1920. Foundations of the American press, 1704/1763: Franklin and his contemporaries -- Printers take sides, 1763/1832 -- Putting the news in newspapers, 1833/1850 -- Radicals all! 1830/1875: covering slavery and The Civil War -- Crusaders and conservatives, 1875/1912: journalism in yellow and gray -- Professionalizing the news in peace and war, 1900/1920 -- The media, 1920. Jazz age journalism, 1920/1929: magazines and radio challenge the newspaper -- Hard times, 1929/1941: three great columnists, two great reporters, one horrible decade -- The "good war," 1941/1945 -- Creating the big media, 1945/1963 -- Rocking the establishment, 1962/1972 -- The establishment holds, 1967/1974 -- Big media get bigger, 1980/1999 -- Going digital, 1995 -- Conclusion.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
PN4855 .D36 2012 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for JR101 -1: Discovering Journalism (Journalism: Rodriguez)
  On reserve for JR101 -2: Discovering Journalism (Journalism: Leccese)
  On reserve for JR101 -3: Discovering Journalism (Journalism: Defraia)
  On reserve for JR101 -4: Discovering Journalism (Journalism: Mihailidis)

Emmanuel Main Stacks
PN4855 .D36 2012 – Available

Lesley/EDS-Sherrill Library Main Stacks
PN4855 .D36 2012 – Available