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Media Influencers Flashcards

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Guglielmo Marconi

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AM Pioneer
Father of Radio
First wireless telegraphy

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Lee de Forest

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AM Pioneer

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Edwin Armstrong

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Created FM
Hyderodine, made AM clearer

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David Sarnoff

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RCA - Entrepreneur and President

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Marshall McLuhan

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“Medium is the message”

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Desi Arnaz (Lucille Ball)

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Developed the 3-camera process that is used today, reruns

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Ivy Lee

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Public be Informed

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Edward Bernays

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Applied psychology and sociology to PR, taught the first PR classes

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PT Barnum

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Public be fooled, Used gross exaggeration, wild stories, and staged events to secure newspaper coverage for clients

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Philo Farnsworth

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Conceived the first All-Electronic TV

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Oprah Winfrey

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Media blend profitability with social responsibility

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Walt Disney

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First animated movie
Embraced TV

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Mary Pickford (D.W. Griffith & Douglas Fairbanks)

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United Artists
Artist Control instead of Business Control

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Thomas Edison

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Phonograph
Film Projector
Motion Picture Patents Company

Created the projector
Said people had to use his equipment and also pay for that equipment if they were going to make movies

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Invented the Printing Press

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Margaret Bourke-White

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Photojournalism, LIFE, first photographer for Fortune

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Todd Storz

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Format Radio
(Top 40 etc)

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Elvis Presley

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Challenged censorship and segregation in film and music

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William Paley

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Creator of CBS

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Michael Jackson

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Broke racial barriers
Transformed music videos into an art form

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Mark Twain

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Literary Journalism
Put social commentary in American Journalism/Literature

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Orson Wells

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War of the Worlds
Citizen Kane

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Michael Hart

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Inventor of the e-book

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Nellie Bly

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Investigative Reporter to Challenge Ethics is Journalism

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Alan Freed

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First radio DJ to coin the words “Rock and Roll”

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