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Worth a read: Interview with photographers, writer about controversial New York Post subway photo
It’s a situation that most news photographers find themselves in at some point in their careers: Do I step in when I see a tragedy unfolding or do I document it? A fascinating question for journalists… more →
Jenni Dunning
Tornadoes Present Remind Us of Tornadoes Past
wrote 19 hours ago: View of damage in Washington Court House, Ohio after a tornado hit on September 8, 1885. Recent weat … more →
Sick with the flu in 1930s Mandate Palestine
wrote 3 days ago: On 2nd November, 1938, underneath the cheap prepaids on page three, the Jerusalem-based daily Palest … more →
Bride & Groom reunite after 35 years
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wrote 3 days ago: I thought this May 7, 1935 news item would be of interest to the readers. Bride & Groom reunite … more →
Blogging my way through media convergence
wrote 1 week ago: Media Convergence, past, present and future. Over the course of the semester so far, compulsory blog … more →
All the news that fit...
wrote 1 week ago: So last weekend, Athenae over at the First Draft blog (which you need to bookmark, by the way) poste … more →
Belinda Easlick of Elsie, Michigan - 1972
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wrote 1 week ago: I thought that a 1972 wedding announcement with a lot of information would yield a real family tree … more →
A picture can be your confirmation
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wrote 1 week ago: Back in 2012 I found an obituary in an Arkansas newspaper which contained a lithograph portrait of W … more →
Journalist Howard K. Smith Born on This Date
wrote 1 week ago: Famed American journalist Howard K. Smith was born on this date in 1914. Smith, a Rhodes Scholar, wa … more →
An Indigestible Egg
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wrote 1 week ago: An Indigestible Egg April 13, 1878 A correspondent writing from Odin, Ill., sends us the following i … more →
Fatal Calamity 1873 - Mrs. Wolverton
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wrote 1 week ago: One of the most lamentable and terrible accidents ever recorded in these columns, took place on Mond … more →
Newspaper cuttings cast new light on Chambord Street
wrote 2 weeks ago: In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the priority for Bethnal Green Borough Council was to re … more →
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's death in the Mandate Palestine press
wrote 2 weeks ago: Atatürk on a fridge magnet. During the break I took from The Paper Dispatch this past month, I final … more →
Around the World with Nellie Bly
wrote 2 weeks ago: American journalist Nellie Bly born on this date in 1864. Bly took a famous record-breaking trip aro … more →
NUMBERED AMONG THE DEAD
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wrote 3 weeks ago: While helping Luanne; writer of The Family Kalamazoo (A genealogical site devoted to the history of … more →
William Randolph Hearst Born on This Date
wrote 3 weeks ago: Publisher William Randolph Hearst born on this date in 1863. Hearst’s “war” with Joseph Pulitzer to … more →
What we should learn from Denmark
wrote 3 weeks ago: After the Leveson Inquiry into journalistic ethics, Lord Justice Leveson began drawing up a new syst … more →
Portraits of Alaska's Changing Media Landscape
wrote 3 weeks ago: Portraits of Alaska’s Changing Media Landscape By: Tim Brown Alaskans are kept informed and re … more →
Newspaper Editorial Sparks Tiananmen Square Protests
wrote 4 weeks ago: People’s Daily, a daily newspaper in the People’s Republic of China, publishes the People’s Daily ed … more →
Blockading 1909
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wrote 1 month ago: Well, here is something I never heard of. From “The Dispatch – Wednesday Nov 24, 1909, Lexington, N. … more →
