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Assistant professor Mike Conway is the speaker for the next Department of Telecommunications Seminar Series at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in R-TV 226.

Conway’s talk is “Edward R. Murrow’s Hesitant Transition to Television: The visual maturation of CBS’s See It Now,” based on his research of the early public affairs television show best remembered as the venue for Murrow taking on Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communism campaign.

Conway said the study explores how a famous journalist who denigrated television in the 1940s (Murrow), and an ambitious radio documentarian, with no visual background (Fred Friendly), helped create one of the most important visual programs in journalism history.

Conway is the author of The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s.

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