James D. Squires Papers
1955-2004

Series IV: University Courses (1990-1992)
Boxes 50-52

• Box 50: Harvard University John F. School of Government material
  1. Incoming correspondence - Dunn, Nancy-Trainor, Mick; unidentified
  2. Outgoing correspondence - May 9, 1990-July 23, 1990
  3. Phone message
  4. Syllabi for S-412: Business, Technology, and the Free Press
  5. Kennedy School information, faculty lists, course lists
  6. Lecture notes - Television's impact on the democratic process
  7. Lecture notes - Research on television images
  8. Lecture notes - First Amendment Series: Pentagon Papers
  9. Lecture notes - The impact of television on news media
  10. Lecture notes - General changes in mass communication
  11. Lecture notes - The essence of communication
  12. Lecture notes - untitled
  13. Cronkite, Walter. Theodore H. White Lecture. Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. November 15, 1990
  14. Discussion paper - Buhl, Dieter. "Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany"
  15. Discussion paper - Duncan, Dayton. "Press, Polls, and the 1988 Campaign: An Insider's Critique"
  16. Discussion paper - Grossman, Lawrence K. "Reflections on Television's Role in American Presidential Elections"
  17. Discussion paper - Jakobson, Linda. "Lies in Ink, Truth in Blood: The Role and Impact of the Chinese Media During the Beijing Spring of '89"
  18. Research paper - Adatto, Kiku. "Sound Bite Democracy: Network Evening News Presidential Campaign Coverage, 1968 and 1988"
  19. Research paper - Lanouette, William. "Tritium and the Times: How the Nuclear Weapons-Production Scandal Became a National Story"
  20. Miscellaneous


• Box 51: Middle Tennessee State University course material, course readings for Harvard and MTSU
  1. Incoming correspondence - Badger, David-Wyatt, Robert; unidentified
  2. Journalism 430: Reviewing and Criticism
  3. Journalism 480: Seminar in Current Mass Media Issues - The Press and Democracy
  4. Student papers
  5. Attendance sheets
  6. Lecture notes
  7. Lecture notes
  8. Sample reviews and handouts
  9. Sample reviews and handouts
  10. Clippings - March 29, 1991
  11. Clippings - October 9, 1991
  12. Clippings - April 1992
  13. Miscellaneous
  14. Course readings - untitled questionnaire (political update)
  15. Course readings - Anderson, John. "Brave New Inquirer." Philadelphia, July 1991, 78-94
  16. Course readings - Branch, Taylor. "Outsiders and Insiders: Race and American History." John S. Knight lecture, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, February 13, 1991
  17. Course readings - Batten, James K. "Profit and Quality." Washington Journalism Review (July/August 1990): 31-34
  18. Course readings - Eason, David. "On Journalistic Authority: The Janet Cooke Scandal." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 3 (1986): 429-447
  19. Course readings - Friendly, Fred. "The Birth of Another Rag." In Minnesota Rag, New York: Vintage Books, 1982
      Friendly, Fred. "Gagging 'A Malicious, Scandalous and Defamatory Newspaper.'" In Minnesota Rag, New York: Vintage Books, 1982
  20. Course readings - Gannett Foundation. "Covering the Literacy Story: A Primer for Journalists on a Major Social Issue." Conference report. Arlington, VA: Gannett Foundation, July 22, 1990
  21. Course readings - Ghiglione, Loren. "Introduction." In The Buying and Selling of America's Newspapers, edited by Loren Ghiglione. Indianapolis, IN: R.J. Berg, 1984
  22. Course readings - Gray, Lloyd and Tony Tharp. "Delta Democrat-Times." In The Buying and Selling of America's Newspapers, edited by Loren Ghiglione. Indianapolis, IN: R.J. Berg, 1984
  23. Course readings - Griffith, Thomas. "Press Lords and Media Barons." n.p.: n.d., 1-10
  24. Course readings - Halberstam, David. The Powers that Be. New York : Knopf, 1979. 790-817
  25. Course readings - Hartman, Lynn Wickham. "Standards Governing the News: Their Use, Their Character, and Their Legal Implications. Iowa Law Review 72 (3) (March 1987). 637-700. (reprinted)


• Box 52: Course readings, MTSU and Harvard; publications; original clippings
  1. Course readings - "Hustler Magazine and Larry C. Flynt, Petitioners v. Jerry Falwell." Supreme Court Reporter 108 (1988), 876-882
  2. Course readings - "Keepers of the Dollars." 183-203
  3. Course readings - Kreig, Andrew. "Market Failures in Media Antitrust Regulation." Paper submitted for independent study with Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, January 15, 1990
  4. Course readings - Kwitny, Jonathan. "The High Cost of High Profits." Washington Journalism Review (June 1990): 19-34
  5. Course readings - Leapman, Michael. "Sock, Sock, Sock, Day After Day." In Barefaced Cheek: The Apotheosis of Rupert Murdoch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983
  6. Course readings - Lundberg, Kirsten. "General Electric and the National Broadcasting Co.: A Clash of Cultures." Paper prepared for Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1989
  7. Course readings - McClatchy, C.K. "How Newspapers are Owned -- And Does it Matter?" Press-Enterprise Lecture Series 23, January 27, 1988
  8. Course readings - Milburn, Michael and Anne McGrail. "The Dramatic Presentation of News and its Effects on Cognitive Complexity." Paper presented at annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1990
  9. Course readings - Nightingale, Suzan. "Anchorage Daily News." In The Buying and Selling of America's Newspapers, edited by Loren Ghiglione
  10. Course readings - Rowland, Willard D. Jr. "The Case of the United States: A History and Analysis of Public-Service Broadcasting in the U.S. - Its Mandate, Institutions and Conflicts." Paper contribution to Public-Service Broadcasting in a Multichannel Environment, a project of the Washington Program of the Annenberg Schools of Communications, October 1990
  11. Course readings - Schwartz, John, Carolyn Friday, Peter McKillop and Karen Springen. "Time: The Counterattack." Newsweek, June 26, 1989. 48-53
      Griffith, Thomas. "What's so Special About News Magazines?" Newsweek, June 26, 1989. 52-53
      Hammer, Joshua. "The Myth of Global Synergy." Newsweek, June 26, 1989. 54
  12. Course readings - "The State of the Italian Media: Newsmakers Become Newsowners -- A Case Study of La Republica"
  13. Course readings - Weaver, David H. "Setting Political Priorities: What Role for the Press?" Roy W. Howard Public Lecture in Journalism and Mass Communication Research, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, April 16, 1990
  14. Course readings - Whited, Charles. "A World Divided." In Knight: A Publisher in the Tumultuous Century by Charles Whited. New York: Dutton, 1988.
      Whited, Charles. "The Days of Lightning." In Knight: A Publisher in the Tumultuous Century by Charles Whited. New York: Dutton, 1988
  15. Course readings - Whited, Charles. "An Age of Excesses." In Knight: A Publisher in the Tumultuous Century by Charles Whited. New York: Dutton, 1988
  16. Course readings - miscellaneous fragments
  17. Publications - 1990 Ownership Survey April 1990
  18. Publications - The Bulletin November 1990
  19. Publications - Collins, Keith S., ed. Responsibility and Freedom in the Press: Are they in Conflict? n.p.: Citizen's Choice, 1985
  20. Publications - Presstime June 1990
  21. Original clippings

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