In reading “The Beginnings of Daily Journalism in New York City” by Francis Halsey, it really fascinated me how this piece was both a primary source about early twentieth century historians and a secondary source about the early newspapers of New York City. As fascinated as I was with regards to how the newspapers of …
The readings for this week both had two distinct differences. The first one was about the intention of newspapers, and how they should serve the public. The second article dealt mostly with gender, and the role that women played in WWI. The Tuesday reading was interesting to me, mostly because we were trying to figure …
The first reading was called, “The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I,” by Jill Frahm. Before this reading, I was completely unaware that telephone operators served in France during the war. It made sense after I considered it, but it was really fascinating to learn more. Back […]
The first reading of the week was “The Beginnings of Daily Journalism in New York City” by Francis Whiting Halsey. This article was written in 1919 and begins by discussing how there was no means of gather news through newspapers like today (1919). Newspapers in 18th century only focused on political or business affairs as …
This week I found Jill Frahm’s article titled “The Hello Girls: Women telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces During World War I to be very compelling. I had never heard of these women telephone operators in France during the war. I have only ever heard about the dough boys. Learning about these female service […]
The two readings for today covered the telephone. The Frahm article covers the role played by women operating American phone systems during the first world war, and the David article discusses the telephone monopoly of AT&T and its implications on…
My favorite reading for this week was our tuesday reading, The Beginnings of Daily Journalism in New York City, by Whiting Halsey. In the reading, Halsey breaks down the evolution of New York journalism up the 1919, when he wrote this article. Some of the […]
Halsey’s piece sheds light on how and why New York’s newspaper industry got started. With the shortage of paper discussed last week allieviated after the revolution, printing presses were now able to begin to produce materials for public distribution- only…