Jazz Age Journalism
Which president had been a newspaper publisher?
Warren G. Harding
What was the largest selling magazine in America in the early to mid 1900s?
The Saturday Evening Post
Who is credited as the inventor of the radio?
Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist.
What is syndication of newspaper and radio?
Syndicates supplied ready-to-use content; so things like columns to newspapers and shows for radio.
Why was journalist Ernie Pyle so beloved for his stories about World War II?
He wrote about the average soldier in vivid language everyone could connect with.
What is the name of the newspaper whose publisher went on to become president?
The Marion Star
What was the editorial/business model of TIME Magazine?
Provide a wide variety of authoritative news in short, concise, polished stories.
Why was Nikola Tesla important to the development of radio as we know it?
He invented the alternating-current electric motor and contributed the idea that electromagnetic waves could carry messages
What famous person in history did Dorothy Thompson interview?
Adolph Hitler
Photojournalist Robert Capa was famous for his photos of which famous battle?
D-Day
Two ways magazines were different than newspapers?
They were published monthly, not weekly or daily, and they sought a national audience.
What was the defining feature of Life magazine?
Vivid photojournalism: aka great pictures
Name two laws created to govern radio.
Radio Act of 1927 and Communication Act of 1934
Who did Edward R. Murrow go after and expose in his TV show See It Now?
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunt for "Reds" or communists in the U.S.
This New York Times reporter became “communications director” for the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.
William Laurence
Name two other important papers of the Jazz Age, one in Chicago, one in Los Angeles.
Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times
Who was Fortune magazine’s first photographer, and what country did she go cover?
Margaret Bourke-White and she traveled to the Soviet Union.
Who had the vision of what radio could become?
David Sarnoff, who would become president of RCA, the Radio Corporation of America
What was syndicated columnist Walter Lippmann's column called?
Today and Tomorrow
This former model was the only woman to obtain US forces accreditation as a war correspondent.
Lee Miller
What was the best newspaper in the 1920s?
The New York World, owned by Joseph Pulitzer
Who wasn't the target audience for the sophisticated content in The New Yorker?
A little old Lady in Dubuque (Iowa).
He figured out radio waves could transmit human voices.
American inventor Reginald Fessenden
Syndicated newspaper columnist Walter Winchell focuses on what type of subject matter?
Gossip in both showbiz and politics.
What year were photos of dead WWII soldiers first published and where were those soldiers?
1943, and on a beach in Papua New Guinea