Making National News: A History of Canadian Press

Making National News: A History of Canadian Press

by Gene Allen
Making National News: A History of Canadian Press

Making National News: A History of Canadian Press

by Gene Allen

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Overview

For almost a century, Canadian newspapers, radio and television stations, and now internet news sites have depended on the Canadian Press news agency for most of their Canadian (and, through its international alliances) foreign news. This book provides the first-ever scholarly history of CP, as well as the most wide-ranging historical treatment of twentieth-century Canadian journalism published to date.

Using extensive archival research, including complete and unfettered access to CP’s archives, Gene Allen traces how CP was established and evolved in the face of frequent conflicts among the powerful newspaper publishers – John Ross Robertson, Joseph Atkinson, and Roy Thomson, among others – who collectively owned it, and how the journalists who ran it understood and carried out their work. Other major themes include CP’s shifting relationships with the Associated Press and Reuters; its responses to new media; its aggressive shaping of its own national role during the Second World War; and its efforts to meet the demands of French-language publishers.

Making National News makes a substantial and original contribution to our understanding of journalism as a phenomenon that shaped Canada both culturally and politically in the twentieth century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442667440
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 01/31/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 472
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Gene Allen is a professor in the School of Journalism and the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. A professional journalist for 20 years at the Globe and Mail and the CBC, he was director of research and a senior producer for the award-winning documentary series Canada: A People’s History and editor of its companion book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 3

1 Uneasy Allies 17

2 Subsidies and Survival 54

3 News on the Air 102

4 "A Great Responsibility": CP in Wartime 133

5 "No Middle Ground" 182

6 Being National in the 1960s 211

7 Covering the News, 1920-1970 255

Conclusion 292

Chronology 309

Names of organizations and acronyms 313

Notes 315

Bibliography 413

Index 431

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Oliver Boyd-Barrett

“This is among the very best works of any that have been written about news agencies in general or national news agencies in particular. With clarity of vision and fine judgment, Gene Allen develops the narrative and its many complex threads in ways that suit general, professional, and scholarly audiences. The book is also an important contribution to Canadian history and to a lively and ongoing theoretical debate of great significance – namely, the relationship between news media and processes of national formation and globalization.”

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