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 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.

The Front Page Reflection

    The movie The Front Page covers a group of Journalists whose main objective is to make money by covering the most business strategy stories. Even if it means disregarding morals that they have set in place for themselves as human beings. 

    This movie takes place in 1929 when a journalist who was about to move discovers a criminal who is being searched for by police. He then hides him from other journalists, and business outlets so that he can cover the story and make the most money. 

The Front Page important characters

    Even though something this outrageous wouldn't happen in today's decade of journalists because they would go to jail for life. It isn't completely outdated and old timely because journalism is still corrupt. 

    Journalism outlets claim to be unbiased and mainly focus on the people. But they really focus on how to make the most money, even if they have to disregard moral values. 

    Even though this movie takes place in 1929 the type of Journalism this movie is based on is in 1904 when the Hearst L.A Examiner covered investigative journalism.

     Hearst was known for using images and bold headlines to real in his audience. The Front Page uses similar tactics to cover investigative journalism. In the movie, the Journalism outlet is willing to hide a criminal to gain the best coverage for their story. This is a bold move and was the main idea behind this movie. 

The producer of The Front Page

    In this movie, the Sheriff and the Journalism outlet are hostile towards one another. The sheriff is situationally aware and knows that the journalists will do anything to produce a story that will make money.

     When the outlet is hiding the criminal the sheriff suspects that they are involved in the reason for his disappearance. 

    Journalists and police today are less hostile towards one another depending on the situation. Sometimes situations occur where they are more hostile. However, a lot of the time journalists and police are on the same side. Sometimes when Journalists are pushy, towards celebrities and harass them, police and journalists are then hostile towards one another. 

The Front Page Advertisement

        The reporters and the mayor's relationship contained coverage, similar to the media and politicians today. The news and the media only cover certain areas and sway politicians, and the people how they want. 

    Journalists and positions of power act similarly today because they use corruption, and money to cover what they don't want you to know. They use biases and personal gain to continue their selfish endeavors. 

    The press and politicians collaborate with one another to sway biases based off of political parties. 

    This is why political parties should not exist. If you are a democrat then the democratic news only covers a biased take of democratic news. And if you are republican the republican news only covers the biased areas of republican news. 

    The press uses negative coverage of politicians to sway the politics of the world to vote for a certain political party. This is why Journalists should not be a part of a political party because they are biased when they are. Politicians also use money and power to sway the press away from covering their negatives and only showing their positive side. 

    Authority, power, and money are the reason politics and the press are so corrupt. The system is flawed, and collaboration is used to cover certain areas of our world. Similar to when the news outlet The Front Page used collaboration to hide a criminal for personal gain. 

    Molly and Peggy are the female characters in The Front Page, and this shows women's suffrage. The women in this movie are treated as if they aren't human because of their gender. This is something that has improved today but still takes place. 

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 William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863. George Hearst was his father, who owned a mine. He also owned the San Francisco Examiner. Hearst asked his father in 1887 if he could take over this paper; that was how the Hearst empire began. He continued to excel in the Journalism realm by changing the way Journalists create stories. Hearst took a more marketing standpoint when it came to the approach of his newspaper outlet. He made his stories stand out by using a more flashy and sensational approach, this captured the attention of his audience and changed the journalism game. Once the San Francisco Examiners' viewers started to skyrocket, Hearst also decided to buy the New York Morning Journal. Hearst being an exceptional businessman, and Journalist was willing to spend the money he knew he had towards the New York Morning Journal. The approach Hearst took was well thought out and calculated. After gathering a successful reputation through exploring the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst decided the best way to gain readers of the New York Morning Journal was to hire known successful writers. 

    Although the success of the San Francisco Examiner, and New York Morning Journal was an amazing business accomplishment, Hearst impacted the whole idea and basis behind Journalism with his approach. He created the term yellow journalism, which boldly produced information. He used exaggerated language to create excitement, and his paper mostly covered investigative journalism. Hearst using his wealth, business, and journalism skills continued to build an empire. His passion for business and journalism drove him to continue to purchase and produce news. As technology expanded and grew he started to produce comic strips, through striking photographs and illustrations. He also was the first print media writer and producer to enter the radio broadcasting world. He was an influential man and was able to get people to listen to him.

    Joseph Pulitzer and W.R. Hearst were coworkers in the 1890's. They caught the public eye by using romance, melodrama, and hyperbole to engage the audience in their newspapers. They both used the Spanish-American War to sell newspapers, by engaging the audience in what the war situation was. Hearst also developed news schemes that instigated this war. He wrote a story covering the imprisonment and release of Cuban prisoner Evangeline Cisneros. 

    In the 1920 Hearst entered the movie newsreels business area through his company Hearst Metrotone News. Through this business, he created and produced over 100 films. He used his advertising and marketing talent to produce films that captured the audience's attention. Every dream Hearst followed was very calculated and well thought out. He was more focused on grabbing the audience's attention and he didn't care what type of attention it was. For Hearst publicity was publicity, and he wanted to get his name out there to make more money. His journalism approach has left a massive mark on the development of journalism today. The most impressive part of Hearst's life was how he used his marketing skills to get his name out there to get more readers. He was able to build relationships with his co-workers to publish his perspective. He held high standards for himself throughout his life, and he did for his co-workers as well. This is shown in the way his success as a journalist carried from one newspaper to another. Therefore creating the Hearst news empire.

    

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    Over the years news and media have developed from the inspiration of different generations of people. The natural human ability to develop a skill is determined by approach and discipline. To create a long-lasting Journalism style, we first need to take a look at the approach of other successful Journalists. 

Photo of Reuters news 

    The ability to capture an audience's attention and retain attention spam is the most important part. This information will carry me through my journalism career. 

    Around the world, different news stations present different ways of reporting information to communities. For example, my classmate informed me that the successful news production of Reuters focuses on marketing behind Journalism mainly. 

    They use all different types of apps, and resources to make sure that the information behind their news company gets around. They also hold their reporters to high standards and make sure that their reporters are well-written, well-spoken, and know how to capture attention.    

    They mainly focused on the writing aspect and style behind the news produced and later developed the Associated Press Stylebook. The purpose of the AP stylebook was to teach efficient, accurate, and unbiased news pieces. 

    The Associated Press was developed on May 22, 1846. My classmate informed me that this style of newspaper production focused on helping people gain access to news at faster rates on various platforms, for example, Datastream and Laserphoto. What made this business successful was the marketing and production behind the journalism. 

Photo Of Associated Press

    The Association Of American Editorial Cartoonists approached informing the public by using images that gather and trigger human emotion. The program was designed to teach and inform the public through sight.

    Their motto was "Professional association concerned with promoting the interests of staff, freelance and student editorial cartoonists in the US." 

    The N.P.P.A was an organization of visual journalists, who wanted their co-workers to express themselves freely. They further developed journalism through visual presentation, symbolism, and imagery. 

Photo of The Boston news

    The Boston News Letter was published on April 24 1704 back when America was still a British colony. This newsletter was a small single sheet that was double-sided. This newsletter produced information about Europe and the colonies. 

    John Campbell was a writer for the Boston Newsletter, and he immigrated to Boston where he first set up shop as a bookseller. Benjamin Harris decided he wanted to fight for freedom of the press and used journalism as his main outlet. 

    This changed the way people processed and perceived the news they were given. With the way Benjamin Harris covered his stories, the people were able to be more involved in forming opinions about the place they lived. 

    The Boston Newsletter was known for being the first published newspaper in America. This paper also played a huge role in part of the American Revolution in 1775. 

The Writers Of Associated Press

    The New York Times was written by Henry Raymond and George Jones in 1851. This paper was written by mostly Republicans and endorsed candidates for president. The focus of this paper was sound money. All of these papers in New York at the time focused on getting information to the public that they were allowed to have knowledge of. 

The New York Times

    The basis behind these newspapers and what made them successful was the adaptation from generation to generation. All of these papers produced news the public was ready to hear no matter how controversial it was. This is currently how Journalism has changed depending on technology, public opinion biases, etc. 

    

Why Am I Here

     My name is Katherine Ryan, but I have gone by Kate my whole life. My family origin contains Irish and German roots. I grew up in a small suburban town called Sparta NJ. I have two brothers and a massive extended family. Growing up with a big family has taught me to treasure those connections closest to me. I have a pretty outgoing personality due to the way I was raised. And the people I surround myself with. Me and my family spend a lot of time traveling and taking family vacations, to maintain healthy connections with one another. Growing up in a big family has helped me understand the importance of communication. Relationships are maintained when communication is sought. My parents raised me to always check in on family, friends, and significant others. They always said you never know what someone is going through or the mental state they are in so always cherish your relationships. My parents taught me and my brothers at a young age that we are a very lucky family not just because of our relationships with one another but financially as well. This has helped me develop gratefulness for everything in life, and the people I am surrounded with. Now I am still human so every once in a while, I slip up and forget how lucky I am and how grateful I should be. 

    Growing up with two brothers taught me to be mentally and physically tough. I wrestled and played football when I was younger because my brothers did. I wanted to prove to them and my parents that I could accomplish anything they could. My parents taught me discipline, and that you are only as strong as your most negative thoughts or influences. Even though I am young, and will admit I have made some mistakes in my lifetime. My family influenced the concept of owning your mistakes, and trying your best to do better. This gave me the strength to be bold, and own every part of myself and my life no matter what. 

    In my senior year of high school, I started to think of places where I wanted to go to college. My final choices were between High Point University and the University Of Utah. I discovered in my senior year of high school what I wanted to do with my life after a public speaking presentation that I did. This empowered me to chase after my dream of one day becoming a TV show host. That is why I am a Journalism major. I want to influence the world to be themselves. There is nothing like the adrenaline rush after speaking my mind and influencing a crowd. After discovering my passion and what I want to pursue in my life I just needed to pick a school. High Point University and the University Of Utah are two totally different schools. What helped me make my final decision on HPU, was the moment I stepped foot in the Communications building. I saw the cameras and thought to myself this is the place for me because it gives me hope that I can accomplish my dream. And hope is the only mindset you need to accomplish your aspirations. I am so grateful for taking advantage of the opportunity to attend a university where dreams are accomplished. While I still have a ton of work to put in, to make myself a better person, and accomplish my goals in Journalism I have learned and grown so much from this campus.