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Chris Daly

Associate Professor, Journalism at Boston University

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Chris Daly is a veteran journalist with experience in wire services, newspapers, magazines, books and online. A Harvard graduate, he spent 10 years at the_ Associated Press_. From 1989 to 1997, he covered New England for the_ Washington Post_. He holds a master’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina, where he was a co-author of the prize-winning 1987 book Like a Family, a social history of the South’s industrialization. His writing has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review, Parents, New England Monthly,Boston, American Prospect and other magazines. He contributes freelance articles and essays to newspapers and magazines, and he is the author of a prize-winning history of U.S. journalism, Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism.

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How Social Media Affected Perception of Harvard Student’s Arrest

April 17, 2018

NECN Chris Daly In the hours after the forcible arrest of a Harvard student Friday night, tweets were sent with hashtags calling it “Cambridge Cops Attack” and “Police Brutality at Harvard”… Expert quote: “A lot of times they look at that initial piece of it and say, ‘Oh, I know what kind of story this […]

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Empty cable calories: Why the White House press briefing shouldn’t be on TV anymore

December 10, 2017

Salon Chris Daly The daily White House press briefing has become, in 2017, a unique charadethat typically has little to offer beyond baffling soundbites… Expert quote: “I see a lot of bright, talented well-sourced people in that room absolutely wasting their time. They should be putting their talents to use in better ways.” View full article

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Trib adapts to changing newspaper industry

December 2, 2016

TribLive Chris Daly, College of Communication Low subscription numbers and advertising rates in the Pittsburgh area eventually forced Trib Total Media to stop printing the Pittsburgh edition of the Tribune-Review and shift its focus to digital publishing, company President and CEO Jennifer Bertetto said…. Expert quote: “This is part of a trend that is slowly […]

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Journalism experts doubt effect of Boston Globe’s fake anti-Trump front page

April 11, 2016

Sinclair Broadcast Group Lou Ureneck, College of Communication Chris Daly, College of Communication The Boston Globe may have attracted attention and generated buzz with its satirical “Donald Trump’s America” front page Sunday, but journalism experts are skeptical that it accomplished the editorial goals the paper set out to achieve… Expert quote: Ureneck: “This is the kind […]

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Not All Change Is Progress: Why The Globe Should Bring Back Paperboys (And Girls)

January 6, 2016

WBUR “Cognoscenti” By Chris Daly, College of Communication Lately, the Boston Globe has earned some unwanted headlines for problems with its new home-delivery service. Reporters, editors and other Globe personnel have left their warm beds and leapt into the breach, using their cars to deliver the print version of the paper to their precious regular subscribers… […]

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Hollywood shines a spotlight on real journalism

November 7, 2015

The Conversation US Chris Daly, College of Communication In the new movie Spotlight, there’s a wonderful scene where a reporter is seeking documents in a courthouse. The building is a dreary linoleum monument to The Way Things Are. In the scene, a recalcitrant clerk treats the reporter as if he were a nuisance and declines […]

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The Conversation US – Chris Daly

August 6, 2015

How American journalists covered the first use of the atomic bomb Christopher B Daly , Boston University Seventy years ago this week, the US military revealed the greatest (and best-kept) secret of the Allied effort to win World War II. The use of the atomic bomb proved to the world that it was indeed possible […]

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The Conversation US – Chris Daly

May 25, 2015

Sitting on a scoop: the story behind the V-E headlines of May 1945 Christopher B Daly, Boston University There’s quite a story behind the story of the end of the fighting in World War II in Europe. As we observe another Memorial Day, it is worth remembering the events of that busy May of 1945, […]

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Why We Needed To Hold A Trial For The Boston Marathon Bomber

April 13, 2015

WBUR “Cognoscenti” By Chris Daly, College of Communication Since the guilty verdicts were announced earlier this week in the criminal trial of the Boston Marathon bomber, several observers have raised the question of whether the trial was worth conducting… View full article by expert  

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Extra! Extra! Click All About It!

January 9, 2015

Harvard Political Review Chris Daly, College of Communication Joseph Pulitzer once exclaimed, “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.” Just more than a century after the death of the famed newspaper publisher, cracks are slowly beginning to materialize in the foundations of both institutions… View full article quoting expert Chris Daly

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