| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Citizen Kane | Movie about William Randolph Hearst made in 1941 |
| Largest Metropolitan Daily Newspaper | The New York Times |
| Largest Newspaper Chains | Gannett |
| Publisher | Oversees newspaper in very general way, very hands off |
| The Editor | Very involved in gatekeeping and agenda setting, point newspaper in general direction |
| Managing Editor | In charge of executing instructions from editor/publisher (mostly the editor) |
| Copy Editor | In charge of grammar and punctuation |
| Types of Reporters | Theatre beat, business beat, crime beat, etc. |
| GA Reporters | Entry-level, General Assignment reporter |
| Columnists | NOT reporters, frequently opinion and not fact based |
| Syndicated Columnists | Appear in multiple newspapers |
| Sales/Advertising | Historically the best paying |
| Tabloid Wars | Reality TV series on Bravo that followed reporters and editors from the New York Daily News. |
| Joint Operating Agreements (JOA) | Relaxed ownership rules in media; effort to divide ownership so that not one "voice" became dominant. |
| Golden Age of Magazines | Late 19th century |
| Ladies Home Journal | Published by Cyrus Curtis in 1883. Contributed adjacency. |
| Cyrus Curtis | Published the Ladies Home Journal in 1883 |
| Louisa Curtis | Wife of Cyrus Curtis; added elements to magazine such as sheet music and fiction. Published Louisa may Alcott |
| Adjacency | Advertisement pertaining to the story. Magazines like it because they can charge a higher price for ad space. |
| Muckrakers | Wrote stories with the intention of bringing about social change. Named this because Roosevelt insulted writers and called them "muckrakers" and they wore the title with pride. |
| Specialized Magazines | Print version of narrowcasting; reduced advertising and print waste. |
| Sponsored Magazines | AARP (the magazine), National Geographic, Kraft Magazine |
| Trade Magazines and Professional Journals | AMA Journal, National Hog Farmer, PR Week, etc. |
| Consumer magazines | People, TV Guide, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest |
| Specialty Magazines | Opera News, D Magazine, Gun Dog, Watch Time, Model Railroading, etc. |
| Newsmagazines | Time Magazine, Newsweek, US News & World Report, The Week |
| Henry Luce | Founded Time Magazine in 1923 |
| Time-Warner | Owns Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly |
| SI Swimsuit Issue | Started in 1964, helped make bikini acceptable, read by 23 million adults each week |
| Conde Nast | Specializes in upscale magazines like Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, Gourmet, The New Yorker |
| Hearst | Mostly women's magazines like Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, O, Redbook, Seventeen |
| Helen Gurley Brown | Published Sex and The Single Girl and revamped Cosmo July 1965 |
| Shattered Glass | 2003 movie about Stephen Glass and the New Republic Magazine. |
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Number; blogs, online diaries, home pages are not eligible |
| What makes an online magazine? | Have an ISSN, have editors or editorial boards |
| Salon.com | Lunched July 1995 by David Talbot. Started offering premium subscriptions in 2001 and currently offer free reading (ad supported) and subscriptions for ad-free reading |
| Slate.com | Founded June 1996 by Michael Kinsley for Microsoft, now owned by Washington Post. Initially free, now subscriber based |
| Pitchfork | Online magazine for music |
| Movie Insider | Online magazine, now Printmag |
| Synthesis | Online magazine for pop culture |
| Evolution of Radio | Technological Innovation (hardware); Programming (software); Economic base (advertising); Regulation |
| Heinrich Hertz | Experimented with radio waves and figured out how they worked |
| Guglielmo Marconi | (1874-1937) Influenced by Ben Franklin, his father was always at sea and he wanted a way to communicate with him. Used Morse Code, did not work on voice broadcast |
| Reginald Aubrey Fessenden | The barretter. First voice broadcast, Christmas eve 1906; beginning of radio as we know it |
| Lee De Forest | Radio tubes (the audion or vacuum tube) |
| The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 | Required all ships to have radios; vital safety device |
| Radio Act of 1912 | "Chaos in the ether." Required radios to be manned 24/7 |
| The Music Box Memo, 1915 | Envisioned the future of the radio as a household appliance. Marconi completely dismissed this memo, but it demonstrated that Sarnoff knew where the radio was headed |
| Call Letters | "W" for stations east of the Mississippi River; "K" for west of the river |
| Radio Corporation of America (RCA) | (1919) Absorbed American Marconi and joined with General Electric, Westinghosue, AT&T, and United Fruit |
| KDKA | Sited as the first radio station in America in Pittsburgh, 1920. Covered the presidential election and was shocked by how many people listened in |
| Frank Conrad (1874-1941) | Founded KDKA and began what are considered the first regular radio broadcasts |
| WEAF | Hosted the first broadcast commercial in New York, 1922 |
| Radio Act of 1927 | Set the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), whose guiding principles are public interest, convenience, or necessity |
| Communications Act of 1934 | Set the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) |
| Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) | One of the most significant pieces of legislature of the 20th century |
| Telecommunications Act of 1996 | Undid most of previous regulation; set ownership rules and marketplace regulation |
| Clear Channel | Dominant company in the radio industry and is also the world's largest billboard company. Has life and death control over which songs to play on their stations |
| Golden Age of Radio | 1930-1950 |
| Ma Perkins | Early radio soap opera; commercials were embedded into the program |
| Fibber McGee and Molly | Early radio sitcom |
| Amos & Andy | Controversial early radio program with black characters |
| Variety Shows | Included Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, the Bergen and McCarthy Show, and Big Band Music |
| Crossley Ratings | An effort to measure the radio audience in order to "sell" it |
| War of the Worlds Broadcast | Broadcast by Orson Welles on October 30, 1938. Marked a turning point in radio by realizing the powerful effect it can have on people |
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