Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2265406
Satu Sorvali
This article shows that readers’ letters were selected and edited in late 19th-century Finnish newspapers for a variety of reasons. The criteria for selection and editing fit the four rules identified by professor of journalism Karin Wahl-Jorgensen for the selection of readers’ letters in modern newspapers and it also demonstrates the 1890s newspapers’ role as gatekeepers and the continuing professionalization of journalists. The editors considered the selection and editing of readers’ letters demanding and frustrating, but they also saw themselves as men of principle, the defenders of the free word. The research sources include the correspondence columns and the editors’ writing instructions to the readers in the 1890s press of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2258481
Tom O’Malley
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Virginia Berridge, Giles Mandelbrote and Mark Turner, and especially, Judy Edwards for their comments on early drafts.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Harris, Michael, “The London Newspaper.”2 “Department of Extra-Mural Studies.”3 O’Malley, “History, Historians.”4 Harris, “Newspaper Distribution.”5 Harris, “The Management of the London Press.”6 Harris, “The Structure.”7 Harris and Lee, editors, The Press in English Society.8 Harris, London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole, 81.9 Harris, “Sport.”.10 Harris, “Parliament,” 62.11 Harris, “The Information Business.”12 The British Library Catalogue lists 30 titles of collections edited by Michael with Robin Myers and Giles Mandelbrote. They range from Myers and Harris, Development of the English Book Trade, in 1981, to, Myers, Harris and Mandelbrote, Publishing in 2012. See also their more recent Lives in Book History from 2022.13 Harris, “No Going Back,” 144.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2235202
Alejandra Bronfman
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
发表于《媒体史》(2023年第29卷第3期)
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2235199
Thomas Smits
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
发表于《媒体史》(2023年第29卷第3期)
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2235205
Arthur Asseraf
Published in Media History (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2023)
发表于《媒体史》(2023年第29卷第3期)
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Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2229864
K. Twigg, Lawrie Zion, Linden Ashcroft
Droughts are a canonical feature of Australian history and climate, and Australia’s paleoclimate and colonial past is dotted with extended periods of low rainfall. The Federation Drought was one such period. The result of a series of El Niño events, it parched much of Australia between 1895 and 1903 and remains one of the most significant and prolonged periods of rainfall deficiency since European colonisation. It also coincided with, and fuelled, a substantial increase in press coverage of the weather. In this article we examine reportage of the Federation Drought through two newspapers from the Victorian city of Bendigo: The Bendigo Advertiser and The Bendigo Independent. We identify themes that have persisted in drought coverage to the present day, highlighting the role the press has played in shaping how communities and policy makers have understood and managed the extremities of Australia’s climate. We also offer insights into the evolution of current drought reportage and the perspectives it enables or silences.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2229851
Elina Kuorelahti, Niklas Jensen-Eriksen
This paper examines newspaper cartels, a largely unoccupied field in media history, from the perspective of longevity. We analyse Finnish newspaper industry from the 1910s to 1970s and show that newspapers sought to regulate various aspects of competition, such as subscription prices, advertisement tariffs, and newsprint prices. Data indicates that political rivalry shaped the newspaper cartel collaboration until late 1950s: the cartel was set up by right-wing and centrist papers and, unlike in other Nordic countries, the Social Democratic press remained outside of the association until 1958. Political shocks of the Finnish Civil War in 1918 and the Second World War also changed the composition of the cartel. The era of private cartels in the newspaper industry gradually started to fade away as a result of anti-cartel laws in the 1960s and governmental anti-inflation measures in the 1970s. We conclude that the economics of newspaper industry and the cartelisation of the wider business environment, newsprint suppliers in particular, encouraged newspapers to co-operate with each other. The results of this article increase the understanding on the collaborative and competitive environment of newspaper companies, but also contributes to broader questions on cartels and their inner dynamics.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2228333
D. Haygood, Glenn W. Scott
Henry Luce’s many critics accused him of using his Time Inc. media to advocate for Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist party during the pre-war, World War II, and post-war eras. Specifically, Luce is accused of using Soong Mei-ling, the English-speaking, American-educated, and Christian wife of General Chiang, as part of his strategy to generate support among Americans for the Chiangs’ Nationalist Party. This research reviews U.S. news magazines’ coverage of Madame Chiang’s three trips to America in 1943, 1944-45, and 1948 to understand the differences in the reporting, thereby potentially revealing an embedded Luce agenda. While the reportage in the U.S. news magazines evolved, this analysis demonstrated few substantive differences in the magazines’ portrayals of Madame Chiang during her three visits during the 1940s, challenging common depictions of Luce’s distinct agenda. The tone and direction of the coverage mirrored the changing relationship between the United States and China.
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