Where Journalism and History Meet The National Archives

Where Journalism and History Meet: The National Archives as a Resource for Journalists, and History as Context for Students Entering a World of Emerging Media Ira Chinoy Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland College Park, MD ichinoy@jmail. umd. edu http: //bit. ly/Ira_Chinoy

“A challenge for history educators is hooking students’ interest in the first class and showing them in a compelling way the relevance of history to their lives. ” Barbara Friedman, “The Information Superhighway as a Route to History. ” In Betty Winfield et. al. , "Stirred, Not Yet Shaken: Integrating Women's History into Media History, " American Journalism, Winter 2009, 160 -174.

JOUR 774 / 474: Mining the National Archives or. . .

JOUR 774 / 474: Mining the National Archives or. . . History as news …

National Archives (Archives II), College Park

National Archives, Washington, D. C.

The paradox: Can there be news in a place where the newest records have been “gathering dust” for 30 years?

JOUR 479 W: History as Context for Emerging Media in Journalism

Newseum memos: Ideas for a Newseum gallery about new media Decades project: What emerging media looked like back then Essays: Past as context for emerging media now

Lessons learned

“Can you get paid to do this? ”

“Why would you limit ‘new media’ to the New Media Gallery? ” “How about a hologram as guide? ” “What are you going to do about history in your New Media Gallery? ”

“I deactivated my Facebook account this past weekend…”

“This diary. . allows me to begin to understand what my grandfather went through – through the words of another man, a man … he was trained to kill. ”

“Not to be deterred, I looked through all the Ps to see if Pauling was misfiled. ”

Replicants?

Ira Chinoy Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland College Park ichinoy@jmail. umd. edu http: //bit. ly/Ira_Chinoy

Additional slides …

“…It is important to remember that overgeneralizing history can be dangerous, but making some sense of the past and applying it to the present is a powerful tool in assessing what new technology has to offer journalism and taking full advantage of it. ”