New Survey of Journalism [antikvár]

FOREWORD By Grant Milnor Hyde* A glancé back over fifty years of teaching journalism in a univer-sity—and that means back almost to the beginning of this young college project—recalls the rapid development of textbooks as one of the most interesting aspects of the work. These struggling books brought the means whereby the subject has been standardized and developed, the means whereby teachers have exchanged ideas and experience, the means whereby the project has been brought concretely to the attention of the publishing world. In 1905 when the University of Wisconsin launched its courses in journalism—being the first university to undertake such a project that has survived without break—there were, of course, no textbooks at all. By 1910, when I began teaching, there were five or six books on the journalism teacher's desk—mainly handbooks by newspapermen. The next ten years saw the laying of a foundation for the journalist's text-book library—at least twenty-five pioneering analyses of newspaper work in generál or of newspaper reporting in particuiar (as well as five on ad-vertising)—almost all of them written by the pioneer teachers—Bleyer, Williams, Flint, Hyde, Martin, Ross, Harrington, Starch, Lee, Thorp, Spencer. The decade after World War I brought a great increase in the number and size of schools of journalism, resulting in the development of many specialized courses. It alsó brought two new types of teaching projects—the high-school journalistic writing class and the nonprofes-sional or "journalism consumer" project of smaller colleges. This was i'eflected in a growing series of specialized books for these newer courses, as well as the beginning of a library for the high-school or small-college teacher of journalism. Now, journalism textbooks have more than come of age and are acquiring a tone of scholarship and thoroughness not seen ín the pioneer texts. The teaching of journalism has indeed come a long way since 1905. What we were doing in 1910, or even in 1935, now seems very feeble * Professor of Journalism, former Diiector, the School oL Journalism, University of Wisconsin. Author of: Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence (1912); Newspaper Editing (1915; 1925); Handboo\ for Newspaper Worhjers (1921; 1925); A Course in Journalistic Writing (1922); Journalistic Writing (1929; 1935; 1946); Newspaper Hand-boo\ (1941); Newspaper Reporting (1952).