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News machines : the systems of daily journalism in Britain, 1785-1885 / Dallas Liddle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liddle, Dallas, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British newspapers--History--18th century.
- British newspapers.
- British newspapers--History--19th century.
- Press--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Press.
- Press--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- British newspapers--History.
- Press--History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- British daily newspapers transformed rapidly at the turn of the 19th century, ballooning in size and radically reorganizing staffing and production decade by decade. By mid-century, newspapers had grown from the folded single sheets of the previous century to large multi-page broadsheets, so impressive in the quantity of print they held and their speed of production that one of their nicknames was 'the daily miracle'. Traditional news history has overlooked a key fact for understanding this era of news: that Victorian daily newspapers were high-pressure systems. Once set in motion, the systems of Victorian news gained major shaping agency over their own development. Combining deep archival research and traditional historical analysis with modern data mining methods, 'News Machines' reconstructs the systemic workings of Victorian daily news in unprecedented detail.
- Contents:
- The rise of the machines
- Printing: inventing systems
- Reporting and editorial writing: information systems
- Management systems: editors and architectures
- Afterword: seeing systems.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on July 6, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version : Liddle, Dallas, 1963- News machines.
- ISBN:
- 9780198994824
- 0198994826
- 0198994818
- 9780198994817
- OCLC:
- 1574925900
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000359219
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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