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  • [Video Group and Senior Input]

    [Video Group and Senior Input]

    Home movies from a girl’s sleepover, followed by a segment from the public access show Senior Input, featuring an interview with a retired newspaper photogrpaher.

  • Remembering Barbara Walters (1929 – 2022)

    Remembering Barbara Walters (1929 – 2022)

    Groundbreaking journalist, writer, and television personality, Barbara Walters, was the first woman to co-anchor a network evening program when she first hit the screen as the co-host of NBC’s The Today Show in 1961. She would later gain a reputation for uniquely and tactfully interviewing some of the highest profile political figures and icons while forging a new path for women in journalism.  In this clip from Skip Blumberg’s Interviews With Interviewers…About Interviewing, Barbara reflects on the craft of interviewing, her life, and her thoughts […]

  • Mary Peyton Meyer

    Camera original footage of an interview with Vandalia, IL news reporter Mary Peyton Meyer (1905-2008).

  • The creation of a news story

    The creation of a news story

    A day in the life of Newsday‘s Mike Waldman On assignment for THE 90’s, Washington correspondent Eddie Becker spent a day with Myron “Mike” Waldman, correspondent for Newsday‘s Washington Bureau, as he went about his job. Waldman’s assignment that day was a story about a bill for the extension of unemployment benefits, and while it may not be the most sensational topic, it provides a unique look into the day-to-day life of a journalist at the time, even when it’s […]

  • [Chicago Reader #4]

    [Chicago Reader #4]

    Interview with Neil Tesser and Pat Clinton at the Chicago Reader.

  • The RNC TV show: 40 years ago

    The RNC TV show: 40 years ago

    It was 1972… the first time anyone other than commercial networks were able to produce video tape on the floor of the convention. Alternative video pioneers TVTV, armed with portapaks, turned their cameras on TV news journalists who explained how the whole event was a heavily orchestrated show for the cameras.   So, what else is new? Meet The Press at the 1972 Republican National Convention 3 ratings 2,360 views Watch the full version of TVTV’s full 1972 guerrilla television […]

  • Mike Wallace (1918-2012) on interviewing the Ayatollah

    Mike Wallace (1918-2012) on interviewing the Ayatollah

    We wanted to honor the life and career of journalist Myron “Mike” Wallace (1918-2012). Two tapes in our archive feature Wallace telling the story of one of the defining moments of his career: his interview with the Ayatollah Khomeini during the Iran hostage crisis. One of the tapes is a 1985 program by camcorder pioneer and video artist Skip Blumberg called “Interviews with Interviewers… About Interviewing” (also featuring interviews with Susan Stamberg, Studs Terkel, and Barbara Walters). The other is […]

  • Chicago Reader, 1983

    Chicago Reader, 1983

    As the Chicago Reader celebrates its 40th anniversary, here’s a look back at the paper in 1983, including interviews with then-Publisher and Editor Robert Roth and then-Assistant Editor Michael Miner. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06_hNo-VmAM] If you haven’t already checked it out, don’t miss the Reader’s own retrospective and specifically, Miner’s fascinating recollection.

 
 
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