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.

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

Mining the National Archives 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?

for Emerging Media in Journalism JOUR 479W: 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

“I’m mad!”

“Can you get paid to do this?”

“Why would you limit ‘new media’ to the New Media Gallery “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 over- generalizing 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.”