Tag: Media history
100 years ago, the first commercial radio broadcast announced the results...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Only 100 people were listening, but the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2,...
The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to...
Mike Conway, Indiana University
When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the...
Techniques of 19th-century fake news reporter teach us why we fall...
Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College
Donald Trump appears to have a straightforward definition of fake news: Stories that are critical of him or...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
