This Day in History: 1881-08-06
Louella Parsons, Hollywood gossip columnist and ally of William Randolph Hearst, is born on this day in 1881. Parsons is remembered for siding with Hearst in the fight over Orson Welles’ movie Citizen Kane.
Media history from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
- About
- Course
- Chapters
- Features
- Life in the old printing ‘chapel’
- Ben Franklin’s environmental controversy
- Three monopolies that built the telegraph
- Radio and the Titanic
- Civil rights and the press
- II Civil rights & the press
- Science & environmental journalism
- Radio time machine
- Street press of the Velvet Revolution
- The Retro-Future of Communication
- Rebuilding community media
- Newsroom of the future (via ChatGPT)
- Photography
- Cinema /TV
- Research
- Hands-On History
- Int’l media
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