J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Los Angeles Times, Adolph Ochs, Yellow Journalism
12 Apr 2016
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A new model of journalism was introduced by adolph ochs, who bought the. In direct contrast to the sensaional yellow press, the times posiioned itself as an informaional paper which provided stock and real-estate reports to businesses, court reports to legal professions, treaty summaries for poliicians, and theater book reviews for intellectuals. Other serious papers also emerged at the same ime, most notably the los. There was a corresponding increase in news-gathering services: the ap had existed from the 19th century, up was created in 1907, and ins in 1909 (the two would merge in 1958 to form united press internaional, or upi) In the internaional sphere these agencies competed with the briish. Technology: like most innovaions, this technology started with an idea: 1864 james clark maxwell: (english) physicist and mathemaician posited the idea of radio waves (electromagneic waves: thirteen years later, something happened. 1877 henrich hertz (german) proved it existed: at last, irst radio message sent out.
