Media Matters: Wil Haygood – ‘Solo Voyager’
I first met Wil Haygood, a 1976 Miami University graduate, in spring 2013. He delivered Miami’s commencement address, beginning his talk with the trailer for “The Butler.”
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Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
Journalist Ida B. Wells spent much of her career as a journalist in the late 1800s shedding light on the horrors of lynching. Some historians say she was the most famous Black woman in the U.S. during her lifetime.
Media Matters: The Reading Problem – Part II
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” --George R.R. Martin
Media Matters: 'Biased,' 'Boring' and 'Bad'
These words – biased, boring, and bad – describe U.S. teenagers’ “perceptions of news media and journalism,” according to the latest News Literacy Project.
Media Matters: YouTube, the elephant in the room
For those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, our parents worried about too much TV viewing. That seems like child’s play in comparison to this age of smartphones and on-demand video.
Media Matters: Bill Kovach's 'Journalism of Verification'
“It is the discipline of verification,” Bill Kovach once wrote, “that separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”
Media Matters: PR, Propaganda and Edward Bernays
Modern PR practices did not start in earnest until World War I when the government created the Committee on Public Information – an early use of propaganda to sell a war to the American public.