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Jessup, Reginald - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304186

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1983-06-06

Item number (ISN):

304186

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1984-0138

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1983-06-06

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Reginald Jessup, former CBC news editor and public relations officer. Jessup discusses: his family and education; non-military service during the war; being a reporter for News-Herald; newspaper situation in Vancouver; stories he covered; news value of the Herald; his interests as a journalist; decline of newspapers on the late 1940s, becoming more sensational; joins weekly in Fraser Valley; opinion of the CBC; Ira Dillworth; entry into CBC as newswriter; CBC standards, policy on news and opinion; staff of newsroom; use of wire services; supervision from Toronto; change in news/opinion mix in reporting; CP service; announcer's position; unionization; audience's perception of print versus broadcast news; joining CBC TV in Vancouver in 1954; participation in opening night broadcast as assignment editor; covering story on regional development of Vancouver; changes in news reporting; reactions of people to cameras in the early days; difficulties of making TV news meaningful (editing interviews, writing for film); stories broken by CBC; his move into Press and Information, 1954; need for Canadian TV, difficulty of meeting need; commments on Davidson Dunton, Alphonse Ouimet; relations between regions and head office; centralization; Bill Cunningham; practice of separating announcers and reporters; and the need for an independent news services. <1h 31mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Vancouver.

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Vault ISN:

339625

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03773

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

82:00

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL
1984-0122/3

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.~Accession form states: available for research, copying, or broadcast five years after date of interview. Copyright MAY have been waived - to be confirmed.

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