Edward R Murrow

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Stowe Boyd

·Oct 17, 2020

Edward R. Murrow

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. | Edward R. Murrow

Quotations

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Andrea Izzy Anthony

·Nov 25, 2019

Dramatizing the Fear of Infiltration

How a sci-fi film explored unrest in the 1950s — We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty…We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason… and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and…

Film

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Babee Garcia

·Oct 20, 2019

Celebrating Journalistic Excellence

My Experience at the 2019 Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala in New York — For the past 48 years, the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has recognized important contributions in broadcast and digital journalism. Amongst this year’s student Edward R. …

Puerto Rico

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Shain E. Thomas

Required Reading

·Oct 14, 2019

“Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism” Book Review

Everything under the sun has an origin story. — “I’m standing on a rooftop looking out over London. At the moment everything is quiet. For reasons of national as well as personal security, I’m unable to tell you the exact location from which I’m speaking” (Murrow, 1941). The above is a direct quote from a broadcast Edward R. Murrow…

Journalism

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Dale M. Brumfield

·Oct 24, 2018

Lost Arthur Godfrey ‘Doomsday Broadcast’ the Holy Grail of cultural archaeology

In 1953, as the cold war with the Soviets began heating up, President Dwight D. Eisenhower enlisted a friend, Arthur Godfrey, to make a film to tell survivors of thermonuclear war that don’t worry, everything was going to be okay. Now, if we could just find the damn thing … …

WIB Nukes