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OverviewThis book charts the rise and fall of the newspaper as the primary medium for the conveyance of news. The book focuses on two of the most influential media markets in the modern world-Great Britain and the United States between 1688 and 1995.In 1688, Parliament created institutional arrangements that would hasten the rise of the newspaper as the dominant medium for the circulation of news. In 1995, the National Science Foundation commercialized the Internet, encouraging an astonishing proliferation of information on all manner of topics, including the news. Per capita newspaper circulation had been declining for decades, partly due to shifting social norms, and partly due to the rise of broadcast news. The Internet exacerbated this trend, partly because it provided a cheaper news source, and partly because it quickly became a superior vehicle for advertising, a major source of revenue for newspaper publishers for over two-hundred-years.However, only rarely has advertising revenue and direct sales covered costs. Almost never has the demand for news generated the revenue necessary for its supply. Non-market institutional arrangements have ranged from direct government subsidies to organizational forms that enabled news organizations to cooperate. From a historical perspective, the large profits reaped by a handful of newspaper publishers in the post-Second World War era were anomalous, and in no sense a baseline for public policy. Never again will the newspaper be the dominant news medium. To guarantee an informed citizenry in the future, it is necessary to understand how the news business worked in the past.This book is organized around eight essays-each written by a distinguished specialist, and each explicitly comparative. Its theme is the indispensability in both Great Britain and the United States of non-market institutional arrangements in the provisioning of news. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard R. John (Professor of History and Communications, Professor of History and Communications, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University) , Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (Barrister, Barrister, Inner Temple)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9780198820659ISBN 10: 0198820658 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 31 May 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsRichard R. John and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb: Introduction: 'Making News' 1: Will Slauter: The Rise of the Newspaper 2: Joseph M. Adelman and Victoria E. M. Gardner: News in the Age of Revolution 3: David Paul Nord: The Urban Newspaper and the Victorian City 4: James R. Brennan: International News in the Age of Empire 5: Michael Stamm: Broadcast Journalism in the Interwar Period 6: James L. Baughman: Journalism since 1945 7: Heidi J. S. Tworek: Protecting News Before the Internet 8: Robert G. Picard: Protecting News TodayReviewsCogent and informative descriptions... Most notably, they reveal not just how news media are embedded in political and economic institutions but also how those institutions shape the use of new technologies. This collection will be a useful introduction to this vital and vibrant industry for scholars of organizations and the economy who are analyzing its recent past and its future. -- Administrative Science Quarterly This absolutely essential book combines meticulous, original research from leading authorities with a finely tuned editorial sensibility to reinforce the centrality to journalism of the political economy. -- Martin Conboy, Professor of Journalism History and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History, University of Sheffield Making News provides a necessary and much needed historical perspective on the development of news journalism in the US and the UK since 1688.Covering two countries and three centuries in a tightly edited volume, the contributors convincingly show how economic, political, and normative institutional arrangements are at least as important as media technologies in shaping the production and dissemination of news, confronting hyperbolic techno-jargon (whether Victorian or contemporary) with sober historical analysis. -- Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of Research, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics Making News offers a startling multi-century tour from the birth of newspapers to the rise of the Internet. There are surprises on almost every page. The value of this rigorous, crisply written book is enhanced because the authors dont just record the history of news. They place the enfolding chronology in historical context, making their narrative come alive, gently instructing readers on not just what happened but why. -- Ken Auletta, author and media critic for The New Yorker magazine Do not mistake this book for yet another sentimental look at the history of a dying medium. From the eighteenth century to the present, this rich transatlantic collection challenges us to turn away from the dazzle of new media technologies and to explore the political and economic institutions that have always shaped the news. Rigorously researched and analytically acute, the essays gathered here serve as thoughtful, probing guides not only to the journalism of the past, but to the forces that will shape the news media of the future. - Fred Turner, Professor of Communication at Stanford University This book breaks new ground by focusing on the economic, technological, and public policy influences that shaped British and American journalism over three centuries. It is full of new insights and new information that will require the history of journalism to be reinterpreted. -- James Curran, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London Author InformationRichard 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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