International News Agencies: A History

ISBN-13: 9783030311773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 268 str.

Michael Palmer

Spis treści

Chapter I. Before the Birth, and the First Steps of News Agencies: The (London) Times and the First International News Agencies, 1830–50s

Chapter 2. Reuter’s S. Engländer and Intra-European Agency Negotiations, 1847–90s

Chapter 3. A Widening World? Agencies and International News in an Age of Empire, 1848–1914

Chapter 4. World War I and the Agencies

Chapter 5. Inter-war Years: Towards the End of “The Cartel”—Inter-agency and International Strife

Chapter 6. World War II and the Cold War: News in a Worldwide Age of Censorship and Propaganda

Chapter 7. The US Agencies 1944–82: Expansionist AP; the
Changing Fortunes of UP(I)

Chapter 8. Agence France-Presse and Reuters, 1944–91: Beginnings and Renewal

Chapter 9. “Money, Money, Money”: Bloomberg, Reuters and a Changing Agency Scene; International News-Reporting a Continuing Priority. Agencies Monitor Performance. (77I4)

Chapter 10. Covering US Presidential Elections: 2000—Bush vs. Gore

Chapter 11. The End of the “British” Reuters

Chapter 12.  News Technology: All Together?; On the News Front—
“Yes” and “No”

Chapter 13. By Way of Conclusion: Final Remarks.

O autorze

Michael Beaussenat Palmer is Emeritus Professor at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. He is the author of 150 academic journal articles and twelve books in French and English, including Des petits journaux aux grandes agences (1983), with Jeremy Tunstall, Media Moguls (1991) and, with Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Le trafic des nouvelles (1981).