Tag: Newspapers

Newspapers A Century of Decline How the Internet was the Last Straw for Print News


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English | August 18, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01KOJ8ZK8 | 89 pages | EPUB | 1.42 Mb
From the broadcast of the first news bulletin on radio in 1920, daily newspapers have been under pressure from a succession of challenges, ranging from television to suburban weeklies until – finally – the internet. Along the way the industry was beset by industrial disputes, reluctance to embrace the latest technologies, crippling rises in costs of newsprint and labour, traffic gridlock that hampered city newspaper deliveries. By the time it became possible to get your news on a computer, and then on other mobile devices, the newspaper industry was passed its best. Then many papers made the near fatal decision to give away their news for free online, a strategy that was realised too late to be a dreadful mistake. Newspapers: A Century of Decline charts this century-long saga.

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Engines of Influence Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840- 1890 (Academic Monographs)


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English | 2005 | pages: 380 | ISBN: 052285155X | PDF | 3,2 mb
Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria’s country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison’s Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns.

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Early African Caribbean Newspapers As Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age


Free Download Johanna Seibert, "Early African Caribbean Newspapers As Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age "
English | ISBN: 9004512454 | 2022 | 318 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age shows how two Black-edited periodical publications in the early decades of the nineteenth century worked towards emancipation through medium-specific interventions across material and immaterial lines. More concretely, this book proposes an archipelagic framework for understanding the emancipatory struggles of the Antiguan Weekly Register in St. John’s and the Jamaica Watchman in Kingston. Complicating the prevalent narrative about the Register and the Watchman as organs of the free people of color, this book continues to explore the heterogeneity and evolution of Black newspaper print on the liberal spectrum. As such, Early African Caribbean Newspapers makes the case that the Register and the Watchman participated in shaping the contemporary communication market in the Caribbean. To do so, this study engages deeply with both the textuality and materiality of the newspaper and presents fresh visual material.

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Reporting Palestine-Israel in British Newspapers An Analysis of British Newspapers


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English | ISBN: 3030170713 | 2021 | 263 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation from the reader and how this can be manipulated to introduce bias. Sirhan begins the book by examining the history of the ‘conflict’, and the many persistent myths that surround it. She analyses how five events in the ‘conflict’ (two in which the Palestinians are victims, two in which the Israelis are victims, and Operation Cast Lead) are reported in five British newspapers: The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times. By looking at these events across a range of newspapers, the book investigates differences in the way that the media report each side, before exploring what factors motivate these differences – including issues of bias, censorship, lobbying, and propaganda.

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Digitizing the News Innovation in Online Newspapers


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English | 2004 | ISBN: 0262025590 | 255 Pages | PDF | 1.0 MB
In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of revolutionary technological change but by merging the structures and practices of existing media with newly available technical capabilities.

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Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps Community, Not Controversy


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English | ISBN: 1498511074 | 2015 | 372 pages | EPUB | 1124 KB
Though much has been said about Japanese-American incarceration camps, little attention is paid to the community newspapers closest to the camps and how they constructed the identities and lives of the occupants inside. Dependent on government and military officials for information, these journalists rarely wrote about the violation of the evacuees’ civil rights. Instead, they concentrated on the economic impact the camps-and the evacuees, who would replace workers off to enlist in the military and work for defense contractors-would have on the areas they covered. Newspapers like the Cody Enterprise and Powell Tribune in Wyoming, the Lamar Daily News, and the Casa Grande Dispatch regularly published overly optimistic updates on the progress of construction, the size of the contractor payrolls, and the amount of materials used to build the camps. Ronald Bishop and his coauthors reveal how journalists positioned the incarceration camps as a potential economic boon and how evacuees were framed as another community group, there to contribute to the region’s economic well-being. Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps examines the rhetoric and journalistic approach of the local papers and how they informed the communities just outside their walls. This book will appeal to scholars of history and journalism.

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