Mitchell Stephens

New York University

Mitchell Stephens appears in the following:

The Gifts of Atheism

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

In his new book, Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern WorldMitchell Stephens, historian, journalist and professor of Media Studies at New York University, argues that most advancements in human thought were made by non-believers.

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Newspaper Mergers: Frequency Allocation; David Geffen; Jane; News Embargoes; Selling the Census to Minorities

Friday, March 17, 2000

How do you sell the census to minority groups? On the Media finds one ad doesn't fit all.

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Media Millennium Past and Media Millennium Future

Friday, December 31, 1999

OTM says Goodbye Y1K...Hello Y2K. As the Millennium turns OTM asks, "What's changed?" And what will media future look like?

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Do We Really Know Who's Watching, Reading; Movie Tie-ins; Dumb Questions Journalists Ask; Buckley & Schultz Retire; Columbine

Friday, December 17, 1999

TV rating systems; Charles Schultz and Willam F. Buckley retire; stupid questions for presidential candidates; movies as toy tie-ins? The Internet in its Infancy; Columbine shooters.

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The GOP in New Hampshire; Opera News Beefcake; Schwing Magazine; Homelessness in the Media; A Newspaper Golden Age?

Friday, December 10, 1999

New Hampshire media landscape; Schwing Magazine; Opera News; homelessness; a newspaper golden age.

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Monica: The Interview and Book; RIP: Perp Walk; 20th Century's Best Journalism; Black History Month; Washington Week; Celebs for Drugs

Friday, March 05, 1999

Will it Ever End? Monica: The Interview and The Book; RIP Perp Walk; Celebrities For Drugs; The 20th Century's Best Journalism; Black Historian Tires of Black History Month

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Kosovo; Can The Boston Globe Survive?; Jim Lehrer; Image vs Word; Journalism Students

Friday, October 16, 1998

No, they're not related! Brian Lehrer interviews Jim Lehrer about news judgement in the Age of Monica.

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Made for TV Conventions (hour 1); the Tabloid Tradition (hour 2)

Sunday, August 11, 1996

Manafort before the fall: The creation of the "Made for TV" Republican National Convention.

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