TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephens,Mitchell
TI  - A  history of news
SN  - 0195189914
AV  - PN4731 .S686 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Journalism
KW  - History
KW  - Reporters and reporting
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-342) and index; 1. Why news?-The thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to know -- 2. News in preliterate societies-In the ordinary way -- 3. The survival of spoken news-Publishing the whisper of the day -- 4. News and literacy-The first story that comes to hand -- 5. News and empire-The thought stream of the group mind -- 6. Controlling the news-The undeceiving of the people -- 7. Human interests (Fait divers)-Such a deal of wonder -- 8. The logic of news (Faits Isolés)-People biting dogs -- 9. The first newspapers-Expecting the news -- 10. The power of the periodical-Domesticating news -- 11. News and revolution-A junction of all the people -- 12. Mass circulation-For all -- 13. Before reporting-No data by which we can correctly reason -- 14. The development of reporting-The journalistic method -- 15. New technologies-Improved means to an unimproved end -- 16. The information explosion-A surfeit of data
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