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9781405175524

When News Was New

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    9781405175524

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    1405175524

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-27
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

When News was New investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers. Tracks the evolution of news through history Explores the regular reconstruction of news, the salability of news, and whether objectivity matters Provides an innovative approach to the history of news; clear, succinct writing; and effective use of photographs, maps, and tables which have strong appeal to the student reader Offers a new way of understanding news in our history and culture

Author Biography

Terhi Rantanen teaches in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, and is Director of the Master's Programme in Global Media and Communications. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: When News Was New
Temporalization: How News Became New
Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think
Globalization: When News Became Global
Commodification: How To Sell News
Localization: Places in News
Nationalization: News and the Nation-states
Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday
Bibliography
Index
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