A History of News / Edition 3

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Overview

What is news? Why are we so eager to exchange it? Why does it so often seem sensational? How does the way news is gathered and presented affect our politics and our lives? A History of News, Third Edition, provides an extended, international history of journalism that ranges from preliterate societies to the digital age. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of news and provides unique insights into contemporary journalism. Author Mitchell Stephens, an accomplished writer and media critic, analyzes news in all of its manifestations—spoken, written, visual and digital—from an international perspective.
For the third edition, Stephens has broadened the scope of the book's international coverage, expanded the section on television news, increased coverage of women and minorities and added new material on the Internet and the digital revolution. The book also features an updated timeline, questions at the end of each chapter and new boxes, many of which underline connections between older news systems and issues in contemporary journalism.

From preliterate communication to the electronic media, news is examined as a staple of human society.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195189919
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 8/10/2006
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 1,013,842
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 7.30 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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New York University
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Table of Contents

A Chronology Introduction
PART I: SPOKEN NEWS
1. Why News?—The Thursty Desyer that All Our Kynde Hath to Know
The Need for News—A Social Sense The Urge to Tell
2. News in Preliterate Societies—In the Ordinary Way
"Human Wireless Telegraphy"
The Amplification of News—Messengers, Criers and Minstrels Newsworthiness The Edge of the World
3. The Survival of Spoken News—Publishing the Whisper of the Day
Coffeehouses and Nouvellistes
The Decline of Spoken News
PART II: WRITTEN NEWS
4. News and Literacy—The First Story that Comes to Hand
The Demands of News News and History
5. News and Empire—The Thought Stream of the Group Mind
News of Rome News Through China News Across Europe
"Cosmopolitan Commerce"
PART III: PRINTED NEWS
6. Controlling the News—The Undeceiving of the People
News Management and Manipulation—The Newsbook Press Controls A Fear of Controversy Chauvinism—The News Ballad
7. Human Interests (Faits Divers)—Such a Deal of Wonder
Published Gossip News of Crime Sensationalism Moralizing The Supernatural
"Popular" Journalism
8. The Logic of News (Faits Isolés)—People Biting Dogs
The Extraordinary The Conventional The Unexpected
PART IV: NEWSPAPERS
9. The First Newspapers—Expecting the News
News in Venice—The Gazette News from Amersterdam—The Coranto An Editor in London
10. The Power of the Periodical—Domesticating News
Home News—The Breadth of the Newspaper News of Science—The Authority of the Newspaper News of Business—The Speed of the Newspaper
11. News and Revolution—A Junction of All the People
The American Revolution The French Revolution A Free Press
12. Mass Circulation—For All
The Penny Press and Newspaper Ownership Other Voices The New Journalism and Consolidation Tabloids and Corporations
PART V: REPORTING
13. Before Reporting—No Data by Which We Can Correctly Reason
The Haze The Print Shop
14. The Development of Reporting—The Journalistic Method
Enterprise Observation Investigation—The World Asked to Explain Itself The Veneration of the Fact Objectivity Controlling the News—Still
PART VI: ELECTRONIC NEWS
15. New Technologies—Improved Means to an Unimproved End
Radio—An Electronic Meeting Place Television—The Distant Newsmonger
16. The Information Explosion—A Surfeit of Data
Publicity The Weight of the Present—News, Rumors and Ideas The Future of News Endnotes Bibliography Credits Index

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