Format:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203596890
Content:
This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society. Using lively and entertaining examples, Kevin Williams illustrates the changing form of the newspaper in its social, political, economic and cultural context. As well as telling the story of the newspaper, he explores key topics in detail, making this an ideal text for students of journalism and the British newspaper. Issues include: newspapers and social change the changing face of regional newspapers the impact of new technology development of reporting techniques forms of press regulation.
Content:
BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- HISTORY OF THE NEWSPAPER IN BRITAIN: Key moments -- INTRODUCTION: News, newspapers and society -- 1 SPREADING THE WORD: The pre-history of the British newspaper, 1486-1660 -- 2 NEWSPAPERS FOR THE FEW: Politics, the press and partisanship, 1660-1789 -- 3 KNOWLEDGE AND POWER: The Radical press, 1789-1850 -- 4 TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY: The press as 'the fourth estate', 1850-90 -- 5 THE NORTHCLIFFE REVOLUTION: The rise of the commercial newspaper, 1890-1922 -- 6 NEWSPAPER WARS: The press in the inter-war years, 1922-39 -- 7 WAR, SOCIAL CHANGE AND RECONSTRUCTION: Newspapers at war and peace, 1939-67 -- 8 THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN: The emergence of the tabloid newspaper, 1967-89 -- 9 THE LONG GOODBYE: The newspaper and technological change, 1989 to the present -- FURTHER READING -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415346238
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415346238
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Williams, Kevin, 1955 - Read all about it! London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2010 ISBN 9780415346238
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415346245
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0415346231
Additional Edition:
ISBN 041534624X
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Presse
;
Geschichte
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