Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet

ISBN-13: 9780198820659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Richard R. John; Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

Opis

This book charts the rise and fall of the newspaper as the primary medium for the conveyance of news. Chapters, from the foremost scholars in the field, offer an explicitly comparative analysis of the two of the most influential media markets in the modern world - Great Britain and the United States between 1688 and 1995.

Recenzje

Media history, business history and journalism studies scholars alike will enjoy these themed essays and their authors perspectives on where our journalism-driven political economy comes from, and where it may be going.

O autorze

Richard R. John is a Professor of History and Communications at Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University. He is a historian who specializes in the history of business, technology, communications, and American political development. He teaches and advises graduate students in Columbia's Ph.D. program in communications, and is member of the core faculty of the Columbia history department, where he teaches courses on the history of capitalism and the history of communications. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb is sometime Senior Lecturer in History at Keble College and pupil barrister. After completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, he became Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Oxford along with a research fellowship focused on the business of news at Oxford's Said Business School. Silberstein-Loeb's developing interest in law and business then led to an LLB at City University Law School in London and an LLM at NYU Law.