Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | yesterday
A clip from the 2005 Israeli documentary, Land of of the Settlers. Wikipedia describes this devastating documentary thus: The Land of the Settlers is a five part documentary series created by Chaim Yavin, who was described by the Arab News as “the Israeli version of America’s Walter Cronkite“. With a handheld camera, Yavin traveled throughout his [...]
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Jody Brannon has been hired as national director of the Carnegie-Knight News21 journalism initiative, a $7.5 million project with headquarters at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Once upon a time when there were only three television networks and Americans believed in God, Walter Cronkite and the President (in that order), there was a doctrine in journalism that there had to be an absolute separation between the business and editorial affairs of a news operation. That separation was so serious that it came to be known in some circles as "the wall." It's even been called the...
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Rick Rodriguez is the first Carnegie professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University's.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is hitting the road to bring journalism to high-school students around the state.
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The smell of sawdust permeates the air and plastic still covers the chairs, but officials maintain the new Walter Cronkite School of Journalism building will be fully functional by Aug. 25, Arizona State University's first day of classes at the new facility.
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The New York Times claims that Brit Hume, Fox's attempt at a Walter Cronkite, will leave "Special Report" after the election. The Times based its article on what "three people close to him said this week." We'll see. H/T to Dan....
My Name Is IRL (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Way back when your humble host was merely an undergraduate word butcher at Arizona State’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, there was a big event announcing Bill Frieder as the new basketball coach for the Sun Devils. The hiring was problematic inasmuch as Frieder was still contractually the coach of the highly-ranked University of Michigan squad who was expected to participate in the upcoming...
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
By: Bernard Chazelle When Walter Cronkite asked Robert Kennedy how much money he had for his campaign , Bobby attacked the networks, saying they were making enough profits to give all the candidates free air time. On April 26, 1968, Kennedy was giving a campaign speech at the Indiana University Medical Center. One of the students in the audience shouted: "Where are we going to get the money to pay...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Seen at SIFF last year as The Fever of '57 , this documentary makes you nostalgic for the MSM. It was a much, much simpler world when Walter Cronkite, Edward G. Murrow, and their fellow broadcasters broke the big story of Russia's entry into space. Their reports and much wonderful o...
Smartmobs (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Dan Gillmor runs the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, a new project of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Arizona State University. I ran into him at the Reboot conference in Copenhagen in June, 2008, and asked him a quick question about the obsolete "mainstream media versus bloggers in [...]
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to restore the "Fairness Doctrine" regulating political speech — proof that in the Internet Age, Democrats have lost the communications war. Forty years ago, Walter Cronkite could declare on the evening news that the Vietnam War was lost, and that's the way it was. Do Americans want to return to those days by reviving the so-called Fairness Doctrine? Full Article...
OrthodoxyToday.org Blog (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Investor’s Business Daily | Jun 27, 2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to restore the “Fairness Doctrine” regulating political speech — proof that in the Internet Age, Democrats have lost the communications war. Forty years ago, Walter Cronkite could declare on the evening news that the Vietnam War was lost, and that’s the way it was. Do [...]
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Editors' Note: Robert Ganshorn was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front at Purdue University before creating one of the first Public Television documentaries on gay lifestyles broadcast during his graduate studies at Indiana University. Failing to become the Gay Walter Cronkite, he is retired from Ganshorn & Associates in Chicago and now lives in Thailand with his loving partner of 31 years....
Baseball Toaster (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
February 27, 1968 - Walter Cronkite says on national TV that the war in Vietnam is unwinnable.
