Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Publication Title
Review of Communication
First Page
272
Last Page
235
DOI
DOI: 10.1080/0308416
Abstract
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 was tellingly pre-professional in orientation, thus setting the appropriate example for the literally tens of thousands of students who followed in his fabled footsteps over the next half-century.
Rights
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION on 05 Nov, 2010, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0308416.
Recommended Citation
Edgerton, Gary. “Updating the Standard for the Next Generation of Electronic Media Historians.” Review of Communication 3.3 (2003): 227-235.
Notes
This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the Review of Communication 2003, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0308416.