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Mike Conway

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Associate Professor of Journalism, Indiana University

Journalists, like these Associated Press staffers, have always worked hard to report election results quickly – and accurately. AP Photo

November 3, 2020

Election night has been a big media event since electric lights first announced the winner in 1892

Mike Conway, Indiana University

Journalists want to be first to tell the public who won, but the 2020 election night news frenzy may be very different from past years’ coverage.

NBC Berlin correspondent Piers Anderton inside the tunnel during the network’s 1962 escape project. Special Collections & University Archives, University of Maryland

November 8, 2019

The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to film a Berlin Wall tunnel escape

Mike Conway, Indiana University

A media historian uses declassified government documents to show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.

NBC newscaster John Cameron Swayze was television’s first “anchor man” – though not for presenting the news. The term referred to his status as permanent panelist of the quiz show Who Said That? Wikimedia Commons

February 25, 2015

The origins of the all‑powerful news anchor

Mike Conway, Indiana University

In the beginning, newscasters weren’t even visible to TV news viewers. With Walter Cronkite, everything changed.

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