Blog #3: What I learned - Institutions & Publications

 EOTO REFLECTIONS: INSTITUTIONS & PUBLICATIONS

    The first newspaper that I learned about that I thought was interesting was the New York Tribune. The New York Tribune was an American newspaper that was established in 1841 by Horace Greeley. it was also known for being a part of the dominant Whig Party in the mid-1800s. Due to their record-breaking circulation of papers, they played a huge role in shaping the opinion of the U.S. The Tribune provided a variety of different topics which included; political news, special articles, lectures, book reviews, and poetry. With providing so much information to the world the New York Tribune became one of the most know penny paper and one of the biggest players in the journalism world. 

    Furthermore, the second topic that I found to be interesting was the Associated Press, which is a nonprofit organization, a news organizing group that is owned by 1,400 newspapers that are Associated Press members. It was created in 1846 when five New York City newspapers came together to gather funding for a pony express route through Alabama to bring news of the Mexican War. For 170 years The Associated Press has been covering the world’s biggest stories and has continued to stay dedicated to factual reporting and to be the most trusted source for fast, accurate, and unbiased news in a variety of formats, and an essential provider of technology services that known to be vital to the news business.

Blog #2: The New York Journal (EOTO)

 THE HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN 📰

 The New York Journal American was a daily newspaper published in NYC from 1937 to 1966. William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Journal in 1895 when he found a way to hire his rival Pulitzers staff from the Sunday newspaper with the promise of giving them a raise. Hearst and Pulitzer went back and forth trying to win over the staff until Hearst made an offer they could not turn down.

The rivalry between Hearst and Pulitzer grew even bigger when they both decided to publish cartoons based on the “Yellow Kid” Character from Richard Felton Outcault’s comics

 The Journal was the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst. The New York American was originally the New York Journal, and in 1901 it was renamed American, which was the morning paper. Soon after came the New York Evening Journal which was an afternoon paper. Both papers were published by Hearst and in 1937, the American and the Evening Journal merged. 

The New York Journal was known for its use of graphics and illustrations and was the most successful American newspaper of the era. The Journal was the earliest American newspaper that gave published credit to its reporters, columnists, editors, writers, cartoonists, and photographers.

The New York Journal was an example of Yellow Journalism. This is the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase publication. 

Through yellow journalism, newspapers competed for readers through bold headlines, illustrations, and activist journalism. The term was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the competition between the two most popular NYC newspapers, the New York Journal, and the New York World. 

Due to the many illustrations, colour magazine sections, headlines, articles on crime and pseudoscientific topics, and reducing the price of the paper to only one cent the journal soon began to gain a significant amount of recognition.

The purpose of the New York Journal was to publish, and report exaggerated stories and editorials about the public tensions between the United States and Spain, which eventually triggered a war over Cuba by the sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana influenced events like the Spanish American War.

While inciting the war with the publications of his paper, Hearst made a statement to his illustrator came up with a quote that became very popular which was “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war. 

Although the Journal became very popular, this didn’t keep the paper in business. In 1966 the paper ceased publication and donated all the prints used for publication to the University of Texas at Austin in 1968.

Blog Post #1: CRJ Major + Never Stay Silent???

 

Growing up I was always into cop shows like; COPS, Law&Order, Criminal Minds, etc. watching those shows I always knew that when I got older I would want to be someone who caught the bad guys. But the older I got, I learned that the field of law was so much more than being a police officer, or a detective. When I got to High School I took a Civics class and learned about the Amendments the different Laws that we have and the different cases that put these laws into place. After taking this class I knew that I wanted to be a lawyer because I had so much interest in the topic, and that's how I decided I wanted to be a Criminal Justice Major on the Pre-Law track.

When I first signed up for this class, it was because I needed to take a class for credit hours. And I thought to myself I am a Criminal Justice major, I know nothing about journalism. But Once we got into the class and got into the lecture I realized that this can actually be a beneficial class for me because of the career that I want to go into. I believe that this class will really help me with my writing in so many different ways while I am preparing to go to law school. I also think that it will be a refresher for certain terms that I will also see a lot as a law student such as; Habeas Corpus, Incitement, Criminal Action, Civil Action, etc. This is my first time taking a journalism class so I'm not really sure what is to come, but I am excited to find out.