News over the Wires : : The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897 / / Menahem Blondheim.
News over the Wires tells the story of the development of the news wire service as a business operation strategically positioned between the telegraph industry and the press. This unique history of telegraphic news gathering and news flow evaluates the effect of the innovative technology on the evol...
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Frontmatter -- Editor's Introduction -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. The Emergence of the News Wire Services -- 1. "The News Newer": Discovering Timeliness in News -- 2. "Time Past to Time Present": Linking the Telegraph and the Press -- 3. "A Better-Organized System": Establishing the New York Associated Press -- Part Two. Toward a Monopoly of Telegraphic News -- 4. "The Advantage of Time": Race for the Foreign News -- 5. "A Monstrous Monopoly Is Created": The New York Associated Press Goes National -- 6. "To Liberate the Newspaper Press": The New York Associated Press at War -- Part Three. The News-Telegraph Monopoly at Work -- 7. "A Double-Headed Monopoly": The Associated Press and Western Union in Symbiosis -- 8. "Talking to All America": Power and Politics of the News-Telegraph Monopoly -- Conclusion -- Selected Primary Sources -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Harvard Studies in Business History |
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