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Sponsored by the McCormick-Tribune Foundation. Evaluating the "First Draft" of History; Reporting and historical truth in the Vietnam War; history and Jourlists in the Balkans; Newsworthy History; Historical Objectivity and Journalistic Truth.
Journalists have written important "first drafts" of many of the key events of the twentieth century. In doing so, do they use and interpret evidence differently from historians? Do they attribute causation differently from historians? Do journalists influence historians, or is their work fundamentally revised by those writing history's "second draft"? We explore these questions by considering the work of journalists who donned the mantle of historian, Willaim Shrier and Harrison E. Salisbury. |
