Ben Haig Bagdikian (born 1920, Maraş, Ottoman Empire; now in Turkey) is an American educator and journalist of Armenian descent. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Kahramanmaraş (or simply Maraş) is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is Kahramanmaraş city, the traffic code is 46 The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches This is a list of educators. See also Education, List of education topics. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends The Armenians (Հայեր Hayer) are a Nation and Ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands A large Bagdikian has made journalism his profession since 1941. Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He is a significant American media critic and the dean emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" Media studies is a collection of academic programs regarding the content history meaning and effects of various media. In Academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit or over a specific area of concern or both Emeritus (ɨˈmɛrɨtəs is an Adjective that is used in the title of a retired Professor, Bishop or other professional The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley A graduate school or ("grad school" is a school that awards advanced degrees such as doctoral degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people In 1983, Bagdikian published The Media Monopoly, which revealed the fast-moving media conglomeration that was putting more and more media corporations in fewer and fewer hands with each new merger. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) This work has been updated through six editions (through 2000) before being renamed The New Media Monopoly and is considered a crucial resource for knowledge about media ownership. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Bagdikian is credited with the observation that "Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' on a ukulele. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" The ukulele (ˌjʉːkəˈlɛɪli from ʻukulele /ˌʔukuˈlele/ variantly spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or alternatively abbreviated uke "
In 1971, while an editor at the Washington Post, Bagdikian was leaked portions of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg. The Pentagon Papers is the popular name for a 14000-page top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's internal planning and policy Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7 1931 is a former American military Analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy
Books by Bagdikian
- In the Midst of Plenty: A New Report on the Poor in America, Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
- The Information Machines: Their impact on Men and the Media, New York: Harper, 1971, ISBN 0-06-090258-2
- The Effete Conspiracy and Other Crime by the Press, New York: Harper, 1974. ISBN 0-06-090343-0
- Caged: Eight Prisoners & Their Keepers, New York: Harper, 1976. ISBN 0-06-010174-1
- The Media Monopoly, Boston: Beacon Press, 1983. ISBN 0-8070-6179-4
- New Edition with extensions The New Media Monopoly, Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8070-6187-5
- Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession, Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8070-7066-1
As editor
- "Man's Contracting World in an Expanding Universe", Proceedings of the Brown University Convocation held in Providence, RI October 21-23, 1959, Brown University, 1960.
- "The Shame Of The Prisons", The Washington Post national report, with Leon Dash, 1972. Leon Dash (born, in New Bedford Massachusetts) is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- The Memoir of Lydia Bagdikian, by Lydia Bagdikian, Berkeley, California: Private printing. Based on notebook diaries of Ben Bagdikian's older sister Lydia, 1997.
External links
- Bagdikian's ZNet HomePage. Includes Znet commentaries by him, and Znet articles by or about Ben Bagdikian. Z Communications is a media group founded in 1987 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent.
- Bagdikian's biography at The Library of Americas' Reporting Civil Rights web site
- Bagdikian's biography at the Harvard Square Library's Notable American Unitarians web site
- Bagdikian's articles at FindArticles.com
- Beacon Press web site for New Media Monopoly.
- Media Monopoly excerpts
- PBS interview about Media Monopoly
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