James L. Baughman

Quick Facts

Full Name	James L. Baughman
Date Of Birth	Jan 10, 1952(1952-01-10)
Age	72
Date Of Death	March 26, 2016
Birthplace	Warren County
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Capricorn

James L. Baughman Biography

James L. Baughman is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on January 10, 1952 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. James L. Baughman was born in Warren, Ohio on January 10, 1952, the son of Lewis E. and Ann B. Baughman. Baughman grew up in Warren and attended the Warren City Schools. He was a lifelong and passionate fan of the Cleveland Indians.

In addition to his academic career, Baughman served as a member of the Wisconsin Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1985 to 1992.

Reviewing the book in the April 30, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann observed: “As the television audience grew larger and took in people from small towns and the middle of the country, it became obvious that Americans wanted predictable, familiar entertainment, featuring, as Baughman astutely observes, stock situations and stars who had unusually expressive faces that lent themselves to cartoonish mugging shown in closeup. The results were often terrific, but never uplifting.”

Baughman’s 2007 book Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 described how the American television industry became fixated on commercial advertising and high ratings. As he explained:

James Baughman taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1979 until

2016. He served as Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication from 2003 to 2009. An exceptionally popular professor with students, he won the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. He looked the part of a professor, always wearing a jacket and tie to class. He smoked a pipe and liked to tell funny stories or do impressions of historical figures over a glass of scotch. He believed deeply in the power of the written word. When students or friends experienced major life challenges or traumatic events, he always encouraged them to “write about it.”

James L. Baughman Net Worth

James L. Baughman is one of the richest from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James L. Baughman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

James L. Baughman (January 10, 1952 – March 26, 2016) was an American mass communication historian, and the Fetzer-Bascom Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Baughman received his BA in history from Harvard University in 1974. He attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he obtained his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees, all in history. His doctoral adviser at Columbia was the renowned historian William E. Leuchtenburg.

During his long career at the University of Wisconsin, he authored four books on the history of mass communication in the United States. His 1992 book The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941 explained how the advent of television transformed mass culture in the United States. Baughman argued that television had a greater impact on its rivals—such as newspapers, radio broadcasters, and the film industry—than it did on society as a whole. As he put it:

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