Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb (University of Oxford)

The International Distribution of News

The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848-1947

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb argues that newspaper publishers formed news associations and patronized news agencies to cut the costs of news collection and exclude competitors from gaining access to the news.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781107657830
• ISBN-10: 1107657830
• Artikelnr.: 40457478

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2009, and is Senior Lecturer in History at Keble College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Conceiving cooperation among American newspapers
1848-92; 3. Cooperation
competition
and regulation in the United States
1893-1945; 4. The 'Rationalist Illusion'
the Post Office
and the Press
1868-1913; 5. Private enterprise
public monopoly
and the preservation of cooperation in Britain
1914-41; 6. Reluctant imperialist? Reuters in the British Empire
1851-1947; 7. Cartel or free trade: supplying the world's news
1856-1947; 8. Conclusion.