When was the first interview? And how did interviewing become a standard practice in news-gathering? Why did Abraham Lincoln spend so many hours in the telegraph office during the Civil War? How did newspapers become mass market media?ĭid Karl Marx write regularly for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune? Why were European visitors to the United States in the 19th century so often astonished - and sometimes appalled - by the American press? How could the American founding fathers have approved the First Amendment and also supported federal subsidies for newspapers and also passed the Sedition Act of 1798 that made criticizing the federal government a crime?
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tradition of the free press different from traditions in other democracies? What were early newspapers like? Who started them and why?Īnd early newspapers in the American colonies? When and where was the world's first newspaper published?Īnd there was no such thing as journalism until the 1600s? It will even look at the ways in which new technologies potentially threaten to replace journalists. It addresses a wide range of questions, from whether objectivity was only a conceit of late twentieth century reporting, largely behind us now how digital technology has disrupted journalism whether newspapers are already dead to the role of non-profit journalism the meaning of "transparency" in reporting the way that private interests and governments have created their own advocacy journalism whether social media is changing journalism the new social rules of old media outlets how franchised media is addressing the problem of disappearing local papers and the rise of citizen journalism and hacker journalism.
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This addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series looks at the past, present and future of journalism, considering how the development of the industry has shaped the present and how we can expect the future to roll out. Now billionaires, most with no journalism experience but lots of power and strong views, are stepping in to purchase newspapers, both large and small. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plummeting readership and revenue, and municipal and regional papers shuttering or being absorbed into corporate behemoths. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history.
Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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