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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann | |
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 Lippmann in 1936 | |
| Born | September 23, 1889 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 1974 (aged 85) New York City, U.S. |
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| Education | Harvard University (AB) |
| Years active | 1911–1971 |
| Notable works | Founding editor of New Republic, Public Opinion |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize (1958, 1962) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) |
| Spouse | Faye Albertson
(m. 1917; div. 1937)Helen Byrne (m. 1938) |
Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974)[1] was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 Public Opinion.[2][3]
Lippmann also played a notable role as research director of Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I board of inquiry. His views on the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively named the Lippmann–Dewey debate. Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his 1961 interview of Nikita Khrushchev.[4][5]
He has also been highly praised with titles ranging from "most influential" journalist[6][7][8] of the 20th century to "Father of Modern Journalism".[9][10] Michael Schudson writes[11] that James W. Carey considered Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion as "the founding book of modern journalism" and also "the founding book in American media studies".[12]
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- ^ Park, Robert E. (1922). "Review of Public Opinion". American Journal of Sociology. 28 (2): 232–234. doi:10.1086/213442. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2764394. Archived from the original on March 29, 2024. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
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prize1962was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Blumenthal, Sydney (October 31, 2007). "Walter Lippmann and American journalism today". Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
- ^ "Drucker Gives Lippmann Run As Most Influential Journalist". Chicago Tribune. 1998. Archived from the original on September 24, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
- ^ McPherson, Harry C. (Fall 1980). "Walter Lippmann and the American Century". Foreign Affairs. 59 (Fall 1980). doi:10.2307/20040658. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20040658. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
- ^ Pariser, Eli (2011). The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0143121237.
- ^ Snow, Nancy (2003). Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11. Canada: Seven Stories. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-1583225578.
- ^ Schudson, Michael (2008). "The "Lippmann-Dewey Debate" and the Invention of Walter Lippmann as an Anti-Democrat 1985–1996". International Journal of Communication. 2.
- ^ Carey, James W. (March 1987). "The Press and the Public Discourse". The Center Magazine. 20.
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