Important People in the Media during 1920's - 40's

E.W Scripps
E. W. Scripps - Was an american newspaper publisher and the founder of the E.W. Scripps Company. He was born and raised in June 18, 1854 in Rushville Illinois. Later on his newspaper career, he and his half brother's created The Detroit News in 1873. E.W. started as an office boy and with some loans he found The Penny Press and acquire some newspapers. This was the begining of his media company(E.W. Scripps Company). With this he became knowed among others which later led to the creation of his United Press Association, which is a former major news agency that distributed to thousands of other media                                    

Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons - Was a Gossip Columnist, born in Freeport, Illinois and was known among others for her great stories. She began her career with The Hearst Newspapers in NewYork city as movie columnist. Then she was diagnosis with turberculosis and decided to move to Los Angeles. She then wrote a column in Los Angeles Examinier which was published over six hundred newspapers and read over more than twenty million. With that she became knowed for her stories and for celebrity secrets.Later on in her career she hosted a radio program which she interview movie stars.
                                                                                                                             
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow - Was an great american broadcast journalist, born near Guildford County, North Carolina. He began his career in CBS as a director of talks and education and remained with CBS for his entire career. He first broadcast was during the annexation of austria by nazi germany which was being broadcast live. He then came knowed as one of the forefathers of broadcast journalism, because of his great talent specialy during World War 2 were he broadcast news. Through out his career he kept commentating through the radio.


Kaltenborn                                                                                                                            
H. V. Kaltenborn - Was an american radio commentator, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He began his career as newspaper reporter and then moved to the radio. He broadcast important events like the spanish civil war for CBS. Later on in his career he joined NBC and one of his major stories was the white house race between president Harry S. Truman and Thomas E. Dewey. Kaltenborn was knowed for his great diction and his depth knowledge of world affairs. He also wrote books of his specific views about radio role news.

                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                           

Major Evnets & News Papers of the 1920s-40s

During the 1920s-40s the journalism world gained a major change with new inavational ideas like newsreels and news being brodcast through the radio and duering major pictuers in the cinema. In the 1920s  the first radio commercial brodcast aird which can single handly change the journalism world. one of the worlds most famous magazine Ti me was founded which today it stills continues to become a best seller. the talking movies was invented during the 1920s which revolutionized the cinema. In 1929 the Stock Market crashes witch lead the U.S. in a Great Depression.

As we enter the 1930s the U.S. is in great destress with The Great Depression were the economy has hit an all time low. This event gave a huge blow to the newspaper business were newspapers werent selling well and thanks to the horrible economy. The Dust Bowl happend in the 30s were the western plains of the U.S. were stuck in a 10 year drought and endless dust storms. In Germany Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of germany and started the Nazi party and the anti jewish laws. Hitler anaxed Austria and starts The Third Reich and started World War II at the end of the 30s.

As the 40s begins alll of Europe is in war against Hitler and his Nazi party. the Nazi began to round up anybody that is Jewish or anybody that is diffrent from Hitlers belifes into concentration camps. this point in time it was called the Hlocaust. many Journalist used this time to get the scoop of a life time and recored this tragic event. in 1941 the japanese attack Peral harbor whitch angered the U.S. and declared war on Japan thus the U.S. joins World War 2. During this time journalist promoted the war with newsreels witch gave  the world updates on the war. the war continued on the U.S., France, Russia, Britain, and Italy form the allies and fought against the Nazi's and the Japanese. The U.S. starts The Manhattan Project were they are developing a weapon of mass distruction. In 1945 The Allies maneged to get to Berlin and won the battle witch let them win the war, in hiding Hitler commits suicide so he wont be captured and killed. Thus the Nazi party was no more but the war is not over. In that same year the U.S. brops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan witch led them to surrender and finish the war. At last World War 2 finaly ended. As the 40s come to an end many scientific discoverys were made like the sound barrier was broken by Chuck Yeager, and the Big Bang theroy was formulated. thus the 40s come to a cloes but it will be remembered by the disasteers of the war.

1920's-40's social, economic, & technological change

A tide of economic and social change swept across the country in the 1920s. Nicknames for the decade, such as “the Jazz Age” or “the Roaring Twenties,” convey something of the excitement and the changes in social conventions that were taking place at the time. As the economy boomed, wages rose for most Americans and prices fell, resulting in a higher standard of living and a dramatic increase in consumer consumption. Although most women's lives were not radically transformed by “labor-saving” home appliances or gaining the right to vote, young American women were changing the way they dressed, thought, and acted in a manner that shocked their more traditional parents. These changes were encouraged by the new mass media that included radio and motion pictures.


Irene Taylor The Southern Darling


jazz age
Convention CityA Lost Film?

The 20's were a time of radical change caused by the many changes happening in technology with new advancements, discoveries, and inventions

Cars

Possibly the most significant change during the 1920's was the mass production of the Car started by Henry Ford, he had manufactured and sold some 15 million Model-Ts by 1927.

On June 4, 1896 Henry Ford Crated his first car call "The Quadricycle"


Henry Ford