User:Sharise2016/sandbox

What I plan on adding to the Jazz Journalism page are the prominent journalist of the time, the political leaders, and the social atmosphere. Some sources I found were Jazz Journalism:The Story of the tabloid news by Russel&Russel,The Public Press 1900-1945 The Story of American Journalism by Leonard Ray Teel, Journalism: A Guide to Reference Literature, 100 Media Moments that changed America
 * Hi Sharise - these look like good sources! Looking forward to seeing your first draft!.  Best, Prof.bgreg (talk) 20:37, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Jazz Journalism is the the sensationalism style of news that followed the somber news stories of World War I. Jazz Journalism typically consisted of bold titles and stirring photographs the stories ranged from details of the lives of celebrities and Hollywood actors to sex scandals and murder trials( like the popular topic of the execution of Ruth Synder in Sing Sing Prison in1928). There were two thousand daily newspapers published in the 1920s and read across the country. One of largest the news paper chains at the time was owned by William Randolph Hearst and another was the Scripps-Howard chain owned by E.W. Scripps and and Ray Howard. These were acquired by purchasing and condensing smaller newspapers and making several central offices to produce columns on national and international news. The critics of theses newspapers disapproved the decline in local news coverage that were being replaced with salacious stories and gossip. There was fierce competition known a"tabloid war" between the Daily News, Daily Mirror, and Daily Graphic papers for the top spot. Some columns that were popular were the confessional stories of events which were fictitious tales written by journalist themselves. A group the most notable Jazz Journalism reporters at the time were Walter Winchell,Ed Sullivan, Louella Parsons, and Hedda Hopper. Several of the writers were tied previously to the entertainment industry, for example Louella Parsons was a movie script writer and Hedda Hopper was an actress prior to writing articles.Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell made their transition from theater writers to reporting on celebrities and scandal. They each had there own strengths Louella Parsons who wrote for several papers including the Los Angles Examiner and the New York American was known to discover the hidden secrets of stars.