Christine Craft Rights Act of 1964) and her media experiences. Her story was featured in an exhibit at the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism located in Washington, D.C. Christine Craft Christine Ann Craft (born 1944) is an attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor. She became known in the broadcast industry in the 1980s for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a television station that had demoted her from news anchor to reporter. Craft was born in 1944 in San Marino, California. After graduating from college with a degree in English in 1966, she spent
History of journalism in the United Kingdom the Great Storm of 1703, described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time." Defoe used eyewitness accounts by placing newspaper ads asking readers to submit personal accounts, of which about 60 were selected and edited by Defoe for the book. This was an innovative method for the time before journalism that relied on first-hand reports was commonplace. Richard Steele, influenced by Defoe, set up "The Tatler" in 1709 as a publication of the news and gossip heard