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[1] newsdesk. Also news desk. The command center of a newsroom, presided over by a news editor and any deputies, from which reporters are given assignments and instructions on how to cover the news and to which they must in turn report. The term may also be used to refer to a virtual newsdesk, existing only online, rather than a physical desk.
In journalism, an assignment editor is an editor—either at a newspaper or a radio or television station—who selects, develops, and plans reporting assignments, either news events or feature stories, to be covered by reporters. [1]
The history of American journalism began in 1690, when Benjamin Harris published the first edition of "Public Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic" in Boston. Harris had strong trans-Atlantic connections and intended to publish a regular weekly newspaper along the lines of those in London, but he did not get prior approval and his paper was suppressed after a single edition. [1]
The Daily Toreador, also known as The DT, is the student newspaper of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.The newspaper was first published in 1925 as The Toreador and later changed its name to The University Daily before arriving at the current name in 2005.
Mayes founded the University of Texas School of Journalism in 1914 and was its dean until 1926. [22] As dean, he founded The Texas Journalist, a student run newspaper. [23] In 1916, he was one of seven faculty members [24] targeted for firing by Texas governor James E. Ferguson, who found them objectionable.
George McElroy was born 25 May 1922 in Houston, Texas to Hugh George McElroy and Philomena McElroy. [2] His father was a highly decorated United States Army veteran who fought in the Spanish-American War, the Pancho Villa Expedition and World War I, being awarded the Croix de Guerre for his service during the First World War. [3]
McElroy's career in journalism began when she worked as a news and sports copy editor for The Bryan-College Station Eagle in 1983. She worked for The Huntsville Item in 1984. Then she was hired by the Austin American-Statesman in 1985 as a sports copy editor, later becoming an assistant arts & entertainment editor and ended working for the ...
The history of journalism spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused, as one history of journalism surmises, the steady increase of "the scope of news available to us and the speed with which it is transmitted".