This scholarly work deals specifically with the important changes in popular journalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneering study in the history of journalism, it is the first volume to focus on the history of the New Journalism in Britain, which is central in the overall history of the modern press. Written by leading scholars representing a variety of disciplines, the fourteen essays provide a careful historical analysis of the transformation that took place in journalism, and the innovations that occurred, such as the greater use of illustrations and photographs, headlines and crossheads, and increased coverage of human interest subjects. The authors take different positions on aspects of the New Journalism, and the book offers a wealth of new information based on original research, as well as lively, interpretive commentary on the nature of change in modern journalism and its relationship to popular culture.
The in-depth examination of major subject areas, such as The Beginnings of the New Journalism, The Flowering of the New Journalism, and Subjects and Audiences, dispels the simplistic view of the New Journalism as occurring within a short period of time by showing that the changes took place slowly and had many ramifications. The annotated bibliography includes studies of individual newspapers and biographies of some of the leading journalists.
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Beginnings of the New Journalism
The Old Journalism and the New: Forms of Cultural Production in London in the 1880s
A Precursor of the New Journalism: Frederick Greenwood of the Pall Mall Gazette
How New Was the New Journalism?
Fleet Street in the 1880s: The New Journalism
Part II: The Flowering of the New Journalism
W. T. Stead and Democracy by Journalism
Politics and the New Journalism: Lord Esher's Use of the Pall Mall Gazette
The Star: Its Role in the Rise of the New Journalism
The New Journalism in Wales
Part III: Subjects and Audiences
Marriage or Celibacy?: A Victorian Dilemma
The Philistine and the New: J. A. Spender on Art and Morality
The Left-Wing Press and the New Journalism
Women's Periodicals and the New Journalism: The Personal Interview
Pulling Strings at Printing House Square
Part IV: An Assessment
Good Journalism in the Era of the New Journalism: The British Press, 1902-1914
Bibliographical Essay
Index
Overview
This scholarly work deals specifically with the important changes in popular journalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneering study in the history of journalism, it is the first volume to focus on the history of the New Journalism in Britain, which is central in the overall history of the modern press. Written by leading scholars representing a variety of disciplines, the fourteen essays provide a careful historical analysis of the transformation that took place in journalism, and the...