Making news : the political economy of journalism in Britain and America from the glorious Revolution to the Internet / edited by Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

John, Richard R., editor.

Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Great Britain--History.

Journalism.

Journalism--America--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can the news business be re-envisioned in a rapidly changing world? Can market incentives and technological imperatives provide a way forward? How important have been the institutional arrangements that protected the production and distribution of news in the past? Making News charts the institutional arrangements that news providers in Britain and America have relied on since the late seventeenth century to facilitate the production and distribution of news. It is organized around eight original essays: each written by a distinguished specialist, and each explicitly comparative. Seven cha

Contents:

Cover; Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; 1: Making News; NOTES; 2: The Rise of the Newspaper; THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF NEWS IN AN AGE OF CENSORSHIP AND MONOPOLY; THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF NEWS AFTER 1695; DAILIES, WEEKLIES, AND MONTHLIES: BUSINESS PRACTICE AND JOURNALISTIC CULTURE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 3: News in the Age of Revolution; NEWS AND NEWSPAPERS; REGULATING NEWSPAPERS; THE PRESS AND THE POST; CONCLUSION; NOTES

4: The Victorian City and the Urban NewspaperTHE NEW INDUSTRIAL CITY; THE COMMERCIAL NEWSPAPER; THE URBAN NEWSPAPER; THE NEW JOURNALISM; THE LONDONER IN CHICAGO; NOTES; 5: International News in the Age of Empire; DOMESTIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUSINESS, 1840-1880; INVENTING INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1840-1880; INTO AFRICA: NEWS, PROPAGANDA, AND EMPIRE; DOMESTIC FOUNDATIONS: COMMERCIAL NEWS IN THE AGE OF THE PUBLISHER, 1880-1900; CONSOLIDATING INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND UNITED STATES, 1880-1902

ANTI-COLONIAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS, IMPERIAL COOPERATION, AND THE FIRST WORLD WARCONCLUSION; NOTES; 6: Broadcasting News in the Interwar Period; THE CREATION OF BRITISH BROADCASTING; NEWS BROADCASTING ON THE BRITISH AIRWAVES, 1922-7; CREATING THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF BROADCASTING, 1920-7; NEWS BROADCASTING ON THE AMERICAN AIRWAVES, 1920-9; SELLING AMERICAN NEWS IN A DEPRESSION ECONOMY, 1929-38; NEWS BROADCASTING ON THE BRITISH AIRWAVES, 1927-36; CONCLUSION: THE MARKETS FOR NEWS IN CRISIS AND WARTIME, 1936-45; NOTES; 7: The Decline of Journalism since 1945; THE POSTWAR YEARS

BECOMING THE FOURTH ESTATETHE POLITICAL AND APOLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEWSPAPERS; ON THE AIR; THE NEXT NEW THING; NOTES; 8: Protecting News before the Internet; NEWS AND COPYRIGHT; NEWS AND PROPERTY; THE POSTWAR BUSINESS OF NEWS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 9: Protecting News Today; WHY THE INTERNET AND MOBILE DISTRIBUTION POSE SUCH A THREAT TO TRADITIONAL NEWS MEDIA; LEGAL ATTEMPTS TO PROTECT NEWS AND BUSINESS MODELS; NOVEL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL NEWS PROVISION; CONCLUSION; NOTES; Epilogue: Tomorrow's News; NOTES; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-180919-5

0-19-166374-3

OCLC:

918941438