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Updating The Standard For The Next Generation Of Electronic Media Historians, Gary R. Edgerton
Updating The Standard For The Next Generation Of Electronic Media Historians, Gary R. Edgerton
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
Broadcasting as a field of study is at least 75 years old. Part of the discipline’s folklore has it that Edward R. Murrow took the first radio announcing class ever offered in the U.S. at the then Washington State College in 1928. “It was called community drama, in order to qualify as an academic course,” explained Alexander Kendrick, one of “Murrow’s boys” and the initial biographer of the legendary newsman (Kendrick, 1969, p. 100). Whether this offering was really a historical first is beside the point; what is important for our purposes is that Murrow’s formative educational experience in broadcasting …