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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jay Harris.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jay Harris.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Harris, Jay, 1948-
  • Brock, Paul, 1932-
  • Scott, Carolyn
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
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.
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