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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | Re-issue |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Studies in Business History ;
42 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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