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Film, Video Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism

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Title

  • Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism

Summary

  • Christopher B. Daly discusses the development of journalism in America from the early 1700s to the digital revolution of today. Daly placed the current journalism crisis within a broader historical context, showing how it is only the latest in a series of transitions that have required journalists to devise new ways of plying their trade.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Researcher and Reference Services Division, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-09-19.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Christopher Daly.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-09-19.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688952

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division. Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-19, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688952/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division, S. B. & Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division, S. B. (2012) Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-19. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688952/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Researcher And Reference Services Division, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division. Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-19, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688952/>.