Ted C. Smythe

The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

American newspapers redefined journalism after the Civil War by breaking away from the editorial and financial control of the Democratic and Republican parties. Smythe chronicles the rise of the New Journalism, where pegging newspaper sales to market forces was the cost of editorial independence. Successful papers in post-bellum America thrived by catering to a mass audience, which increased their circulations and raised their advertising revenues. Still active politically, independent editors now sought to influence their readers' opinions themselves rather than serve as conduits for the party line.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313052309
• Artikelnr.: 72334546

Autorenporträt

TED CURTIS SMYTHE is Professor of Communications Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton. He is co-editor of Readings in Mass Communication and numerous scholarly articles in journalism history.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments A Changing Nation and a Changing Press
1865-1872 Partisanship Under Attack
1865-1872 Rural and Regional Journalism
1865-1882 The Growth of an Independent Press
1873-1882 A New Journalism Forms in the Midwest
1873-1882 Western Journalism Invades New York
1883-1885 The Commercial Press and New Technologies
1886-1895 Newsmongers
1883-1895 The Yellow Press
1896-1900 Reflections on the Gilded Age Press Bibliographical Essay Sources Index