“If JFK was assassinated today, how would the news look?” was a question for many journalists and news readers as the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination approached. Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department teamed up with Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications to explore this question.
Here’s how it looked as reporters watched and tweeted during a re-broadcast of NBC’s original coverage from November 22, 1963.
Barbara K. Iverson is co-founder, publisher, and web guru for Chicagotalks.org, a community and citizen news website. Iverson is a pioneer blogger, and journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago.
Barbara K. Iverson, PhD.
Media Communications
Columbia College Chicago
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