For more than a century, local journalism has been taken almost for granted. But the twenty-first century has brought major challenges. The newspaper industry that has historically provided most local coverage is in decline and it is not yet clear whether digital media will sust…
Newspapers -- Raison d'Être: "The Appetite Grows by What It Feeds On"; 1 Of Discontent, Contractual Wars, and the Birthing of Secular Newspapers in British East Africa, 1899-1905; 2 "Political Apathy Is Commercial Atrophy": The East African Standard and the Interests of the Euro…
This lively, fascinating account of the surprisingly raucous journalism of the Revolutionary era--and how it helped to build a nation that has endured--offers new perspective on today's media wars.
Discusses the raucous journalism of the Revolutionary era, showing how it helped build a nation that endured and offering new perspectives on today's media wars.
"Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern peri…
This book studies the role of tabloid newspapers in exposing corruption and embezzlement in Africa. It makes a, timeless, original contribution to the field by examining tabloid journalism practices and anti-corruption forces that have not yet been introduced to Afrocentric jour…
Introduction: search all about it -- The myth of the new -- Digitised newspapers: histories, contexts, behaviours -- Exploring methods for evaluating user behaviour -- Institutional impact of large-scale digitised collection -- "Unequally free": mapping public access to digitise…