Media & Journalism

This exhibition topic will extend the reach of fiction and poetry toward the layered realm of journalism. Thus exhibits will examine the role of American Jewish journalistic forces such as Adolph S. Ochs (The New York Times) and Joseph Pulitzer (developer of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and founder of the School of Journalism at Columbia University). The focus of the exhibits will go beyond to figures as varied as novelist-journalist Norman Mailer and sports writer Ira Berkow.

Parallel to the realm of wordsmithing is the ever-expanding range of forms of media communications in which Jews have been prominent, from the pioneering of television in the person of names such as David Sarnoff (founder NBC), William Paley (CBS), and Leonard Goldenson (ABC), to the revolution in sportscasting and video-documentary effected by Budd Greenspan.