Women sportswriters - business as usual
Article Abstract:
Sportswriting was dominated by males in the past. Times have changed with the presence of women sportswriters in the locker rooms of male athletes already accepted. Sometimes, they are treated differently not because they are women but because they are reporters. Male athletes tend to feel more comfortable talking with women reporters. Women sportswriters have learned the sport and can ask intelligent questions. However, there are also other women who lack adequate understanding of the game. Gender is not the issue in sportswriting, but the individual and her background of the game/sport.
Publication Name: Media Studies Journal
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 1057-7416
Year: 1997
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Vietnam and war reporting
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Media coverage of the Vietnam War, which played a pivotal role in American journalism, was controversial. War correspondents or reporters were divided as to how the incidents should be covered. There were US officials who tried to cover up battlefield disasters to make America look good. Mediamen belonging to the American mainstream reported positive stories instead of telling true but negative news about the war, but there were also those who reported atrocities committed by the Americans and fellow Americans.
Publication Name: Media Studies Journal
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 1057-7416
Year: 1997
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The Murrow boys - broadcasting for the mind's eye
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Edward Roscoe Murrow hired young journalists to become members of his team at Columbia Broadcasting System. He developed an informal theory for news reporting for radio, a principle borrowed from the literary and journalistic styles of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner and Mark Twain. Murrow advised his team to report for the ear, not the eye, or in other words, to report for the mind's eye. He wanted his 'boys' to 'paint pictures in the air' so that even the commoners will understand and appreciate the news.
Publication Name: Media Studies Journal
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 1057-7416
Year: 1997
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