JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Great Moon Hoax, Penny Press, Industrial Revolution

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Christopher Dornan

Document Summary

11:46 am: news is what you least expect, but a lot of news is not what you are surprised to know but what you need to know and expect to hear, the necessary provision of routine information. Is unheard of for over 4 years: editor of ny harold launches expedition to find livingston. Stanley gets the job assignment and goes to africa: livingston was staying in a village in the congo. His quest for the nile had many setbacks-disease, money. Arabs (who are coming to take slaves and sell them) are looking after livingston but don"t let him send letters home. (hence why is he mia): stanley contracts diseases, his companions die. She is now the image of the journalist who exposes corruption and wrong doing: 1889- nellie goes on voyage to prove that you can make it around the world in faster than 80 days.