Presentations took place on Thursday 3/14/24, my classmates through further research gathered information regarding different styles and types of Journalism. Specific periods of time allowed for different areas in the reporting field to thrive. These presentations developed research on the growth and history behind Journalism.
Crime Reporting relies on local and national information released to the public. Crime reporters rush to the scene because they want to gather the most information and a lot of the time compete with other reporters for the best story. During the prohibition criminals and gangsters ruled the cities, this was why crime reporting was popular during this time period. When alcohol was banned crime reached its peak. The 1920s was a time when investigative reporting and crime reporting skyrocketed.
Breaking news was another area of reporting where at the scene Journalists would take notes on a pad, and release the story to the public as soon as possible. Reporters would gather the facts about the crime scene and release the story to the public. Jake Lingle was a crime reporter in the 1920's, who thrived in investigative reporting. He was then murdered in broad daylight, and other journalists feared they would be murdered as well. Later it was exposed that Lingle would copy other journalists' facts and create his own story. There is a theory that Lingle who was friends with Al Capone, was killed by Capone. However, this is just a theory.
The 1920s were also a time when sports reporting was at its peak. It was considered the golden age of sports, women participated in the Big Six, and men participated in much more. In 1921 the first live broadcasting of a sporting event took place. It was a boxing match with 400,000 listeners, and this transformed modern radio.
Sports reporting transformed the nation through TV, Photojournalism, and radio. In 1939 Sports broadcasting made its first appearance on TV during the baseball game of Columbia vs. Princeton. Photojournalism was created to connect the news through photographs. It is very popular in news stories, and usually contains still images, but could also be presented through video in broadcast journalism. It was created in 1848 and was seen as the Golden Age of photojournalism, containing images that tell stories. Some of the most important people in this field of work were W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, and Roger Fenton. These images provide insight and help us understand stories to a better degree. This helped create Multimedia journalism.
The Gossip and Tabloids was an era of Journalism that revolved around the drama. The first Gossiper was James Boswell who wrote 70 columns as a Hypocondriack in the 1780's. He worked for the London magazine and conveyed stories not about people but stories around town. These stories revolved around political conferences, and these columnists were anonymous. The accessibility of this gossip was through print, and every local paper held a copy. Causing libel laws to become loose in England. One of the most famous Gossip and Tabloids story was The Trio. This story conveyed the infamous affair between Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and Elizabeth Taylor. The affair was between Eddie and Elizabeth. The Tabloids named Elizabeth Taylor "evil", and saw Debbie Reynolds as a "good girl." No disrespect was shown to Eddie Fisher even though he was involved as well. All throughout history, the tabloids targeted women as evil whenever scandals occurred. This is something that still happens today, for example, Ariana Grande and the scandal with Ethan Slater. Gossip Columns are something that is seen in today's paper as well. It is typically found in magazines and surrounds the topic of politicians. It is shown through digital media and print media.
Music Journalism was developed in the 20th century, during the 1920's and late 70's. New music genres formed including; Jazz, Rock, and Pop. Music Journalists started to create stories about the new release of music and different genres being introduced. Rock was a genre that most Journalists wanted to cover because it was a controversial topic. Journalists started to compete to write about different sub genre's and niches to write about. One of the most famous Music Journalists was Paul William who thrived in 1966 creating the Rock newspaper Crawdaddy. He helped pave the way for other rock journalists like Ellen Wills, and Ellen Sander. When the Beatles became popular rock journalism started to thrive. It was known as a pop culture phenomenon.
Different periods and approaches are shown to cover different stories. It also depends on what the audience is looking for in a story depending on what aspects of life are considered interesting at the time. My classmates through further research discovered that history expresses different forms, and angles to journalism.
