Journalism history articles you may have missed
While getting ready to start the fall semester, I again came across some journalism history articles folks might find uses for in class:
Fascinating take on how Horace Greeley crunched data to shake up Congress:
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/antebellum-data-journalism-busted-abe-lincoln
Andie Tucher makes great use of digitized newspaper resources in tracking down variations of a 1904 story.
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/those-slippery-snake-stories
Enjoy!
Ellen
Fascinating take on how Horace Greeley crunched data to shake up Congress:
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/antebellum-data-journalism-busted-abe-lincoln
Andie Tucher makes great use of digitized newspaper resources in tracking down variations of a 1904 story.
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/those-slippery-snake-stories
Enjoy!
Ellen
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Ellen Gruber Garvey, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English, New Jersey City University
Author, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
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