The People’s Art

• Julie Goldsmith, Manager of the Chicago Tribune Historical Collection at Michigan State University, discusses “The People’s Art: The Chicago Tribune’s Transformation of Visual Journalism and Printing in the Twentieth Century."  As Julie discovered, The Chicago Tribune is noteworthy for its printing innovations in the early twentieth century.  In hopes of bringing quality art to the general public through its newspaper, Tribune staff developed mass production techniques to produce quality color. This talk discusses techniques created by the Tribune staff, the artistic styles represented in the newspaper, and their effect on the reading public. 

  This program was held Tuesday, October 23, 2007 and was sponsored by the Serial and Government Publications Division as one of its quarterly programs.

• Julie Goldsmith is presently Manager of the Chicago Tribune Historical Collection at Michigan State University, where she is also working on her dissertation at the College of Communicant Arts and Sciences.  She has a Masters of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University and has taught a variety of courses on journalism history, print media and mass communications.  In addition to public affairs positions at several academic institutions, Julie has worked as a TV news editor on CNBC, a features writer for the Indianapolis Star & News, and as a medical reporter.  She has been recognized for her reporting, notably with the 1998 Women in Communications Clarion Award for hard news at a major daily for her Indianapolis Star article on “Indian’s illegal population might be booming.”  Her diverse academic and professional background makes her eminently qualified to discuss “The People’s Art” in the Chicago Tribune.

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