Journalism lectures project : lectures, 1959-1975.

Scope and Contents

Guest lecturers at the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University occasionally provide firsthand accounts of pivotal events. Benjamin Fine's account of the integration of Central High School in Little Rock and Harrison Salisbury's description of Nikita Khruschev's visit to the United States and the "Battle of Coon Rapids" are examples. Other lectures grouped under this heading range from Watson Berry's on New York City journalism in the 1890's to discussions of the role of the news media from the 1950's on. Participants and pagination: Dean Acheson, 39; Thurman Arnold, 18; Brooks Atkinson, 29; Hanson Baldwin, 17; Ross Barnett, 23; Theodore Bernstein, John Spiegel and Steven Marcus, 43; Watson Berry, 25; Herbert Block, 34; Robert Briscoe, 24; Ted Cott, 36; Norman Cousins, 26; Clifton Daniel, 26; Benjamin Fine, 25; Max Freedman, 29; John V. Lindsay, 22; Walter Lippman, 58; Samuel Lubell, 127; Malcolm X, 38; Lester Markel, 46; Herbert Mayes, 29; Sig Mickelson, 31; James Reston, 46; Wiliam Rusher, 66; Harrison Salisbury, 65; David Schoenbrun, 46; Harry S. Truman, 13; plus lectures, panels and conferences dealing primarily with restrictions on freedom of the press, new journalism, Media Councils, 802

Subjects

• Journalism.
• Lectures.
• Transcripts.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.