#media-history

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fromSan Francisco Bay Times
4 weeks ago

PBS and the Evolution of LGBTQ+ Rights - San Francisco Bay Times

The first television documentary about homosexuality broadcast in the U.S. was The Rejected, which initially aired on KQED TV in San Francisco on September 11, 1961.
SF LGBT
fromMission Local
4 weeks ago

Future housing

Local news has long been integral to my career, starting from the Albuquerque Tribune to various desks at The New York Times, and I’m still invested in its sustainability.
NYC politics
fromInverse
1 month ago

87 Years Later, The Most Iconic Superhero Secret Identity Still Holds True

In Superman II, Christopher Reeve's Clark gives up his powers to live as a human, showing Clark Kent as physically separate from Superman's body, highlighting a unique duality.
Film
Podcast
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

NPR Had an In-House Cocaine Dealer, According to Wild New Tell-All

NPR's early years were marked by a liberated culture, with experiments in journalism contextually intertwined with casual drug use and sexual relationships.
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Can Public Media Survive Trump?

The Municipal News was created as a response to the dissatisfaction with commercial media's 'clickbait' and 'fake news', aiming to reflect genuine public interest.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

Seven Weekend Reads

Focus on raising kind children rather than just successful ones to foster a more compassionate generation.
AI's growing role in the job market poses risks for college graduates.
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

Why I Can't Quit the New York Post

Maybe I'm simply interested in that voice, that loud, familiar sound—the demotic tone, the direct address, the sense of a great organ yelling into power's ear and being overheard everywhere.
UK news
Media industry
fromThe Verge
3 months ago

20 years ago, the first videos uploaded to YouTube were short and sweet

YouTube is returning to its simple, authentic roots reminiscent of its early user-generated content.
Media industry
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

We Must Save Public Media to Change It

The U.S. public media system is under significant threat from political forces and funding cuts, stressing its necessity to democracy.
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