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Global News After The Cold War, Ted Pease Oct 1993

Global News After The Cold War, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

WITH THE BREAKUP of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War ended. The media not only watched, but played a crucial role in the years after 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, as rapid developments dramatically changed the world as we had known it. Images of seminal change agents in what had been the Eastern bloc-Gorbachav, Lech Walesa, Vadav Havel-facing leaders from the West-Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl and Pope John Paul II-mingled with those of explosions at Chernobyl and Tiananmen Square, the of the Berlin Wall and the Bucharest crowds who brought down a Romanian tyrant. …


The Diplomat’S View Of The Press And Foreign Policy: A Conversationwith Jack F. Matlock Jr, Ted Pease Oct 1993

The Diplomat’S View Of The Press And Foreign Policy: A Conversationwith Jack F. Matlock Jr, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

JACK F. MATLOCK JR., a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era and as ambassador to Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s, is Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Matlock began his lifelong study of the Soviet Union in the early 1950S and joined the State Department as a Soviet analyst in 1956, subsequently serving in various capacities in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. From 1983 to 1986, he was senior director of European and Soviet Affairs for the National Security Council, …


Professional Orientation Equals Second-Class Status In Academe, Ted Pease Aug 1993

Professional Orientation Equals Second-Class Status In Academe, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

Surveys journalism educators to examine the classic, divisive tension between professional and scholarly journalism activities. Details the extent and kind of their ongoing professional media activities. Discusses how those involvements play in the classroom and with promotion and tenure committees, department heads, and college administrators.


Radio—The Forgotten Medium, Everette E. Dennis, Ted Pease Jul 1993

Radio—The Forgotten Medium, Everette E. Dennis, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

ASK ABOUT "THE MEDIA" and people think first of television, then newspapers. Sometimes, though not always, they acknowledge the existence of radio. But it is not uncommon for media critics to ignore radio altogether in their treatment of the larger modern media mix. Although the average American owns multiple radios and lives with this most portable medium in every room in the house, in the office, the car and even in parks, mountain retreats and at the beach, radio is rarely the topic of public discussion, giving it the dubious identity of "the forgotten medium." This, the oldest of the …


The Media And Women Without Apology, Everette E. Dennis, Ted Pease Jan 1993

The Media And Women Without Apology, Everette E. Dennis, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

WHETHER IT IS a rejuvenated sense of urgency or simply the last straw of impatience in the latest "year of the woman," something new is in the air when people talk about women and the media. Conversations with people who care about mass communication, the larger society and how women are portrayed in or employed by print and electronic media have taken on a new, sharper tone in recent years, especially in 1992.


Who’S Covering What In The Year Of The Women?, Ted Pease Jan 1993

Who’S Covering What In The Year Of The Women?, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

Top NEWS IN 1992-government and political news. Least prominent: agriculture and transportation. In a presidential election year, that's not too surprising. But who wrote what? Examination of a sample of front pages of 10 newspapers circulating to almost 8 million Americans every day from January through December offers some insights into news content and story assignments in the Year of the Woman.


Symposium—In The Media, A Woman’S Place, Ted Pease Jan 1993

Symposium—In The Media, A Woman’S Place, Ted Pease

Journalism and Communication Faculty Publications

FOR WOMEN AND THE MEDIA, 1992 was a year of sometimes painful change-the aftermath of the Anita HillClarence Thomas hearings; the public spectacle of a vice president's squabble with a fictional TV character; Hillary Rodham Clinton's attempt to redefine the role of the political wife; election of women to Congress and to state offices in unprecedented numbers.