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The international distribution of news : the Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848-1947 / Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, University of Oxford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise.
- Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Associated Press--History.
- Associated Press.
- Press Association (Great Britain)--History.
- Press Association (Great Britain).
- Reuters Limited--History.
- Reuters Limited.
- News agencies--United States--History.
- News agencies.
- News agencies--Great Britain--History.
- Foreign news--United States--History.
- Foreign news.
- Foreign news--Great Britain--History.
- Press law--United States.
- Press law.
- Press law--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on newly available and extensive archival evidence, this book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb argues that newspaper publishers formed news associations and patronized news agencies to cut the costs of news collection and exclude competitors from gaining access to the news. In this way, cooperation facilitated the distribution of news. The extent to which state regulation permitted cooperation, or prohibited exclusivity, determined the benefit newspaper publishers derived from these organizations. This book revises our understanding of the operation and organization of the Associated Press, the BBC, the Press Association, Reuters, and the United Press. It also sheds light on the history of competition policy respecting the press, intellectual property, and the regulation of telecommunications.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Conceiving cooperation among American newspapers, 1848-92; 3. Cooperation, competition, and regulation in the United States, 1893-1945; 4. The 'Rationalist Illusion', the Post Office, and the Press, 1868-1913; 5. Private enterprise, public monopoly, and the preservation of cooperation in Britain, 1914-41; 6. Reluctant imperialist? Reuters in the British Empire, 1851-1947; 7. Cartel or free trade: supplying the world's news, 1856-1947; 8. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-09071-X
- 1-107-72072-9
- 1-107-72786-3
- 1-139-52248-5
- 1-107-73022-8
- 1-107-73197-6
- 1-107-72385-X
- 1-107-72846-0
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