Topic Historic Events and Social Change HISTORY AND TELEVISION As a productive cultural force, television is involved in projecting new modes and forms of historical understanding. These forms do not always follow from traditional scholarly or professional ideas about history. On the contrary, for a number of reasons, television has been...
Interview Dan Rather In his nearly eight-hour interview (in two sessions), Dan Rather talks at length about growing up in Houston, Texas and his early years as a radio and television journalist in the local market. He describes in detail his work at KHOU-TV, where his dramatic continuous coverage of "Hurricane Carla"...
Topic JFK Assassination and Funeral ASSASSINATION AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY The network coverage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy warrants its reputation as the most moving and historic passage in broadcasting history. On Friday 22 November 1963, news bulletins reporting rifle shots during the...
Profession Journalists & News Producers This category consists of news anchors, correspondents, documentarians, historians, moderators, news producers, sports producers, and television critics.