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Mr. Associated Press : Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News / Gene Allen.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Gene, author.
- Series:
- History of communication.
- History of communicationHistory of communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- .
- Journalism--United States--History.
- Journalism.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Sociology.
- Associated Press.
- Cooper, Kent, 1880-1965.
- Cooper, Kent.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the AssociatedPress, making it the world's dominant news agency while changingthe kind of journalism that millions of readers in the UnitedStates and other countries relied on. Gene Allen's biography is aglobe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the mostimportant institution in American--and eventuallyinternational--journalism in the mid-twentieth century. <p>Allen critically assesses the many new approaches and causesthat Cooper championed: introducing celebrity news and colorfulfeatures to a service previously known for stodgy reliability,pushing through disruptive technological innovations like theinstantaneous transmission of news photos, and leading a crusade tobring American-style press freedom--inseparable from privateownership, in Cooper's view--to every country. His insistence ontruthfulness and impartiality presents a sharp contrast to much oftoday's fractured journalistic landscape.</p><p>Deeply researched and engagingly written, <em>Mr. AssociatedPress</em> traces Cooper's career as he built a new foundation forthe modern AP and shaped the twentieth-century world of news.</p>.
- Contents:
- "Fitting himself for the newspaper profession"
- Apprenticeship and ascent
- "Very much the boss"
- The opposition
- International ambitions
- The Japanese gambit
- New media
- Politics, external and otherwise
- The shadow of war
- "The government suit"
- The crusade
- The voice of America
- "Mr. Associated Press".
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-05447-4
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