SIG MICKELSON is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He has served as Vice President of CBS, Inc., and was the first president of CBS News. He is the author of America's Other Voice (Praeger, 1983) and From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite (Praeger, 1989), and the editor of The First Amendment—The Challenge of New Technology (Praeger, 1989).

• Introduction: The Decade That Shaped Television NewsThe Search for a Road MapThe First Awkward StepsA New Star on the HorizonDriving Television's Golden SpikeA New Species of Documentary: The Birth of "See It Now"Breaking New GroundBlacklisting and the Exploitation of FearNot So Strange Bedfellows: Politics and TelevisionTelevision News Comes of AgeThe Great Airplane RaceThe Corporation Declares a Cease-FireAftermath of the Cease-FireSpare the Rod but Don't Spoil the PictureCombat in the Corporate StratosphereThe Changing of the GuardFilling the "See It Now" Void: The Birth of "CBS Reports"The Happy Couple: Pigskin and Image Orthicon TubeCarrying the Olympic Torch to TelevisionIn Pursuit of the DollarThe End of the DecadeBibliographyIndex

SIG MICKELSON is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He has served as Vice President of CBS, Inc., and was the first president of CBS News. He is the author of America's Other Voice (Praeger, 1983) and From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite (Praeger, 1989), and the editor of The First Amendment—The Challenge of New Technology (Praeger, 1989).

• Introduction: The Decade That Shaped Television NewsThe Search for a Road MapThe First Awkward StepsA New Star on the HorizonDriving Television's Golden SpikeA New Species of Documentary: The Birth of "See It Now"Breaking New GroundBlacklisting and the Exploitation of FearNot So Strange Bedfellows: Politics and TelevisionTelevision News Comes of AgeThe Great Airplane RaceThe Corporation Declares a Cease-FireAftermath of the Cease-FireSpare the Rod but Don't Spoil the PictureCombat in the Corporate StratosphereThe Changing of the GuardFilling the "See It Now" Void: The Birth of "CBS Reports"The Happy Couple: Pigskin and Image Orthicon TubeCarrying the Olympic Torch to TelevisionIn Pursuit of the DollarThe End of the DecadeBibliographyIndex