Socolow to present at Radio Preservation Task Force conference
Michael Socolow, associate professor at the Department of Communications and Journalism, will present at the 2023 Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington, D.C., which takes place April 27–30. Socolow, who was a member of the 2023 Conference Organizing Team, has been a member of the Library of Congress’s Radio Preservation Task Force since its inception. At the “Century of Broadcasting” conference, he will be presenting research on radio pioneer Floyd Gibbons as part of the panel titled “Radio News and Commentary: Revisiting Developmental Modes of US Broadcast Journalism.” The papers of Floyd Gibbons, who hosted the first network newscast in American history (“The Headline Hunter”), reside in the Special Collections of Fogler Library. Socolow was assisted in the preparation of his presentation by Fogler Library Special Collections Archivist Desiree Butterfield-Nagy.