Story breakers / image makers: Do you trust the media?

April 2, 2009 Conference

Selected Books

Bernstein, Carl & Woodward, Bob. All The President's Men. E 860. B47 1999

Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter's Life. PN 4874.C84.A3 1996

Encyclopedia of Television.  PN 1992.2.M874 1997

Frost, David. Frost/ Nixon.  (Book On Order- 2.4.09) 2007

Gabler, Neal. Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity. PN4874.W67 G33 1994

Greenberg, D.  Nixon’s Shadow: the history of an image.  E856 .G747 2003

Ifill, Gwen.  The breakthrough: politics and race in the age of Obama.  E185.615 .I34 2009

Kurth, Peter. American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson. PN4874.T43 K87 1990

Kutler, Stanley I. Abuse of power: the new Nixon tapes. E860 .A26 1997

McKeen, William. Hunter S. Thompson. PN4874.T444 M35 1991

Nasaw, D. Chief: The life of William Randolf Hearst. Z473. H4 N37

Persico, Joseph E. Edward. R. Murrow: An American Original. PN 4874.M89 P47 1988

Rather, Dan, with Mickey Herskowiz, The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist. PN4874.R28 A33. 1977

_________, and Gary Paul Gates, The Palace Guard. E855 R37. 1974

Rivera, Geraldo, A Special Kind of Courage: Profiles of a Young American. BJ1533.C8.R58. 1976

____________, Willowbrook: A Report on How It Is and Why It Doesn't Have to Be That Way.  HV3006.N7W57 1972

Sperber, A.M.  Murrow: His Life and Times.  PN4874.M89. S6 1986 

Swanberg, W. Citizen Hearst, a Biography of William Randolph Hearst. PN4874. H4 S83

Thompson, Dorothy. Refugees; anarchy or organization? D445 .T46

SELECTED VIDEO RECORDINGS

Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War. E715. C783 1999

Frost/ Nixon: The Watergate Interview.  E860. F76 2008

SELELECTED INTERNET SITES

A conversation with Gwen Ifill of PBS - Interviewed by Charlie Rose, March 16, 2009.

All the President's Men - The Chicago Sun Times Movie Review (Roger Ebert) January 1, 1976.

American Masters: Edward R. Murrow - Featured on PBS.

American Masters: Walter Cronkite - Featured on PBS. Includes timeline of career highlights.

CBS Announces JFK's Death - Walter Cronkite featured on YouTube.

Code of Ethics for Photojournalists - from the National Press Photographers Association.

Edward R. Murrow - Biography compiled by the State Library of North Carolina.

FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, A national media watch group.

Federal Bureau of Investigation: Walter Winchell - Chronicles Winchell's 30-year correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover.

Frost/ Nixon - CNN News interview with David Frost (Atika Shubert and Doug Ganley) January 5, 2009.

H.W. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, Dan Rather
(Choose Biographies Plus Database and search; off-campus access requires SPC barcode)

Hunter S. Thompson, doctor of gonzo journalism - 2005 obituary from the Economist.

National Archives -  Photograph analysis sheet included in the "Teaching with Documents" Section.

Nixon Tapes  Transcript from David Frost tapes with President Richard M. Nixon. 

Photo Hoaxes - Maintained by Alex Boese; Freelance writer for the Smithsonian and New Scientist.

Photo Tampering Throughout History - Maintained by Professor Hany Farid of Dartmouth Universit.

Sands of Sorrow - 1950 film on the plight of Arab refugees from the Arab-Israeli war, narrated by Dorothy Thompson.

Spanish American War- Effects of the Press on Spanish-American Relations in 1898. Hosted by Humboldt State University.

The Museum of Broadcast Communication - Geraldo Rivera.

The Museum of Broadcast Communication - See It Now, hosted by Edward R. Murrow.

The Walter Winchell Show  - YouTube excerpt from a 1956 television simulcast of Winchell's weekly radio show.

The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers -  The University of Texas at Austin Archives.

Yellow Journalism - Timeline. Hosted by the Public Broadcasting System.

Conference Speakers

Selected Resources 

Kubey, Robert W. Creating television: conversations with the people behind 50 years of American TV. PN1992.3.U5 C74 2004

Kubey, Robert, W.  Media literacy in the information age: current perspectives. P91.3 .M384 1997

Spencer, David R. The yellow journalism: the press and America’s emergence as a world power. PN4864 .S64 2007

Spencer's Monograph. The Art of Politics Victorian Canadian Political Cartoonists Look at Canada-U.S. Relations.

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