20th Century Media

Media History Timeline II

As you can imagine media developments took off almost like wild fire in the 20^th century. Take a look at these examples:

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives radio message across the Atlantic

1900s – Muckraking magazines

1906 – Reginald Fessenden broadcasts voice

1911 – Newsreels begin

1920 – First radio stations in U.S. and Canada

1920s – “Jazz Journalism” tabloids

1922 – Reader’s Digest magazine founded

1933 – Eleanor Roosevelt insists on women-only press conferences (“the Roosevelt Rule”)

1934 – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established

1936 – England is first country with regular TV broadcasts

1936 – Life magazine debuts

1942 – John H. Johnson starts Negro Digest; would later found Ebony and Jet

1950s – “Golden Age of Television”

To read Media History Timeline I , click here.

Thank you University of Idaho for this list.