Making News The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet

by John, Richard R.; Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780191809194
• ISBN10: 0191809195
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2015-09-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Richard R. John is a Professor of History and Communications at Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University. He is a historian who specializes in the history of business, technology, communications, and American political development. He teaches and advises graduate students in Columbia's Ph.D. program in communications, and is member of the core faculty of the Columbia history department, where he teaches courses on the history of capitalism and the history of communications.

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb is sometime Senior Lecturer in History at Keble College and pupil barrister. After completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, he became Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Oxford along with a research fellowship focused on the business of news at Oxford's Said Business School. Silberstein-Loeb's developing interest in law and business then led to an LLB at City University Law School in London and an LLM at NYU Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Making News', Richard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb
1. The Rise of the Newspaper, Will Slauter
2. News in the Age of Revolution, Joseph M. Adelman and Victoria E. M. Gardner
3. The Urban Newspaper and the Victorian City, David Paul Nord
4. International News in the Age of Empire, James R. Brennan
5. Broadcast Journalism in the Interwar Period, Michael Stamm
6. Journalism since 1945, James L. Baughman
7. Protecting News Before the Internet, Heidi J. S. Tworek
8. Protecting News Today, Robert G. Picard