Aurora Wallace

Newspapers and the Making of Modern America

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

By investigating specific cases of newspapers in their communities, Newspapers and the Making of Modern America shows the newspaper as an agent of change in the construction and maintenance of community. It develops the theme of a newspaper as a prime mover in enacting policy, supporting development, building neighborhoods, and generally modifying the physical and built environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780313323201
• ISBN-10: 0313323208
• Artikelnr.: 22697745

Autorenporträt

Aurora Wallace is Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture and Communications at New York University. She received a Ph.D. in Communications from McGilll University in Montreal and was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Her research looks at media, architecture and urban space, 19th and 20th century newspaper and journalism history, and crime in the media.

Inhaltsangabe

Newspapers and Their Cities
Towns
and Villages Tabloids and the City: The New York Daily News
The Daily Mirror and Evening Graphic Small Town Reform Newspapers: The Des Moines Register
The Emporia Gazette and Anniston Star The Black Press Goes to War: The Chicago Defender
Pittsburgh Courier
and The Baltimore Afro-American Postwar Newspapers
Suburbanization
and Land Development: Los Angeles Times and Long Island Newsday Florida in Chains: The Miami Herald and Tampa Tribune The Community Newspaper: The Village Voice
East Village Other
and Chicago Seed to CNHI National Newspapers and the Nation: The New York Times
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
and USA TODAY