1938 the council communist magazine International Council Correspondence changes its name to Living Marxism. In 1942 it becomes New Essays. Its editor since 1934 had been Paul Mattick.
1945 Foundation of Commentary, published on behalf of the American Jewish Committee. it later became a leading neo-conservative publication.
1945 John H. Johnson founds Ebony, a popular afroamerican magazine still in publication
1972 In the United States the pay TV station Home Box Office starts broadcasting, since 1975 it's also available via satellite.
1972 In New York the Downtown Community Television (DCTV) Center is founded. The aim of the organization in the beginning was to empower less privileged groups to produce their own political videos. The productions of the DCTV today reach up to 100 million spectators every year.
1972 In the United States the film distributor Women Make Movies gegründet.
1999 Foundation of Indymedia (also in other languages)
Bibliography
Erik Barnouw, Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television, Oxford University Press 1992
Rodger Streitmatter, Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America, Paperback Edition, Columbia University Press 2001
Rodger Streitmatter, Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America, Faber & Faber 1995
Rodger Streitmatter, Raising Her Voice. African American Women Journalists who changed History, University Press of Kentucky 1994
See also
Historiography - this article includes a chronological list of historiographical journals
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