Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jay Harris.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jay Harris.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 12 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Publisher and journalist Jay Harris was born December 3, 1948 in Washington, DC. After attending Santa-Clara University in California, he worked at the Wilmington News-Journal. From 1975-1982, Harris worked for Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism where he initiated the American Society of Newspaper Editors' national census of minority employment. Harris began working as a correspondent and columnist for the Gannett News Service in 1982. He also worked for the Philadelphia Daily News and Knight-Ridder, Inc. In 1994, Harris became chairman and publisher of San Jose Mercury News. Under his leadership the newspaper flourished, and The Columbia Journalism Review named San Jose Mercury News one of the nation's ten best newspapers. He launched Nuevo Mundo and Viet Mercury, the Spanish and Vietnamese versions of Mercury News. Harris joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in 2002, where he holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Jay Harris
- Jay Harris
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Carolyn Scott.
- OCLC
- 997167277
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jay Harris.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States. naf
- Playing Time
- 011229
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Paul Brock, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Carolyn Scott.
- Event
- Recorded Los Angeles, California 2005 October 7.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Newspaper Publishing Chief Executive.
- Added Author
- Harris, Jay, 1948- interviewee.Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.Scott, Carolyn, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.