The invention of news : how the world came to know about itself /
Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, e...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: All the news that's fit to tell
- The beginnings of news publication: Power and imagination ; The wheels of commerce ; The first news prints ; State and nation ; Confidential correspondents ; Marketplace and tavern ; Triumph and tragedy
- Mercury rising: Speeding the posts ; The first newspapers ; War and rebellion ; Storm in a coffee cup
- Enlightenment?: The search for truth ; The age of the journal ; In business ; From our own correspondent ; Cry freedom ; How Samuel Sewall read his paper
- Conclusion.