Radio Journalism in America: Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond

by Jim Cox and Jim Cox

This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves.

Americans were dependent on radio for cheap entertainment during the Great Depression and for critical information during the Second World War,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786469633
• ISBN13: 9780786469635
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher