Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2023.2183827
Richard Jones
Reporting on crime and the courts are among the classic functions of journalism. In the UK, journalists and others must abide by the Contempt of Court Act 1981, the main piece of primary legislation aimed at ensuring coverage of legal matters is fair to the participants. The restrictions are generally tighter in practice than in jurisdictions such as the US, where the media has a much freer hand to engage in pre-trial reporting. This paper argues that media coverage of the arrest of the so-called ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe, in 1981 while Parliament was considering the question of contempt, has made the UK regime tougher than it might otherwise have been. Excessive reporting was influenced by an unusually celebratory police news conference. This news coverage coloured the contemporary debate around contempt, and any opportunity for a more relaxed approach to contempt in the UK's jurisdictions was lost.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2158793
Baijayanti Roy
The bi-lingual (English/German) periodical Azad Hind/Freies Indien (‘Free India’) was published in Berlin from 1942 till at least 1944. It was the mouthpiece of the Free India Centre, established in Berlin by the Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose with the help of the German Foreign Ministry, to conduct diasporic anti-colonial politics. Based mainly on unutilized archival material, this article focusses on the following facets of this magazine: (i) its role in synthesizing Indian anti-colonialism with Nazi propaganda and Axis military goals. (ii) intersections between the knowledge production for the magazine and the dynamic political trajectories of the Indians who produced such knowledge, particularly the expression of certain leftist visions and ideals in the magazine by a number of Marxist anti-colonialist Indians. Notably, the Nazis displayed remarkable pragmatism in suspending their ideological antagonism to all forms of leftist politics as far as Azad Hind was concerned.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2153656
Manina Mestas, F. Arendt
During the nineteenth century, suicide rates rose substantially in many countries, including the geographic region of the present state of Austria. Sensational news reporting about suicides may have contributed to this rise by eliciting so-called copycat suicides, a phenomenon termed the ‘Werther effect.’ We conducted a large-scale content analysis of nineteenth-century suicide reporting (N = 14,638) to provide a descriptive account of the quality of suicide reporting back then. We found that much of the sensational reporting of the nineteenth century was characterized by presenting vivid details on the suicide method, specific location, and personal details, such as the deceased’s name, occupation, and exact address. To put these findings into context, we compared them to twenty-first-century suicide reporting (N = 300 articles). We found that the quality of reporting has improved since then, containing less Werther-effect-facilitative elements, however, the reports still fail to adhere to modern-day guidelines of responsible reporting.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2146905
Jana Keck, Mila Oiva, Paul Fyfe
The scale of newspaper digitization and emergence of computational research methods has opened new opportunities for scholarship on the history of the press–as well as a new set of problems. Those problems compound for research that spans national as well as linguistic contexts. This article offers a novel methodological approach for confronting these challenges by synthesizing computational with conventional methods and working across a collaborative multilingual team. We present a case study studying the transnational and multilingual news event of Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth’s journey to the United States in 1851–52. Our approach helps to demonstrate some of the characteristic patterns and complexities in transatlantic news circulation, including the pathways, reach, temporality, vagaries, and silences of this system. These patterns, in turn, offer some insights into how we understand the significance of this era for histories of the press.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2141501
Christina Baade
Brendebach, J., M. Herzer, and H. Tworek. International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Gumbert, Heather. “Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952-189.” InMass Media, Culture, and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karl Christian Fuhrer, and Corey Ross, 158. Basingstoke, 2006. Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. London: Penguin, 2005. 610. Marzani, Arturo. Onde fasciste, La propaganda araba di Radio-Bari (1934-43). Rome: Carocci, 2015. Tworek, Heidi. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communication, 19001945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Brendebach, J. M. Herzer和H. Tworek。19和20世纪的国际组织和媒体。阿宾登:劳特利奇出版社，2020年。Gumbert,希瑟。“分屏?1952-189年东德的电视《二十世纪德国的大众传媒、文化与社会》，卡尔·克里斯蒂安·富尔和科里·罗斯主编，158页。贝辛斯托克,2006年。朱特,托尼。《战后:1945年以来的欧洲历史》伦敦:企鹅出版社，2005。610. Marzani,阿图罗。关于法西斯主义，La propaganda araba di Radio-Bari(1934- 1943)。罗马:Carocci, 2015。Tworek,海蒂。来自德国的新闻:控制世界传播的竞争，19001945。剑桥，马萨诸塞州:哈佛大学出版社，2019。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2141494
A. Asseraf
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2141495
D. Clayton
Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2023. Ledwidge, Mark, and Inderjeet Parmar. “Clash of Pans: Pan-Africanism and pan-Anglo-Saxonism and the Global Colour Line, 1919–1945.” International Politics 55, no. 6 (2018): 765–781. doi:10.1057/s41311-017-0105-1. Nott, James J. Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pegg, Mark. Broadcasting and Society, 1918–1939. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Potter, Simon.Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Scannell, Paddy, and David Cardiff. A Social History of British Broadcasting. Vol. 1: Serving the Nation. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Ltd, 1991. Tackley [née Parsonage], Catherine. The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880–1935. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2141498
S. Potter
1950.” Accessed 26 June 202. https://microform.digital/boa/collections/16/bbc-listenerresearch-department-reports-1937-c1950/detailed-description. Scannnell, Paddy. “Public Service Broadcasting: the history of a concept.” In Understanding Television, edited by Andrew Goodwin, and Garry Whannel, 11–29. London: Routledge, 1990. Scannell, Paddy. Radio, Television and Modern Life: A Phenomenological Approach. Oxford: Blackwells, 1996. Tracey, Michael. The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Tworek, Heidi J. S. “The Savior of the Nation? Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period.” Journal of Policy History 27, no. 3 (2015): 465–491. doi:10.1017/S0898030615000196. Valliant, Derek W. Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Webb, Alban. London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Winseck, Dwayne R., and Robert M. Pike. Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-14DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2022.2109457
Hélène Maloigne
This article explores archaeological programmes on the BBC between 1922 and 1939 through an entangled approach to broadcast and printed talks. Supported by archival sources and programme schedules in The Radio Times and The Listener , it focuses on the intertwined archaeological, broadcasting and publishing careers of Charles Leonard Woolley based on his excavation at Ur in southern Iraq. This highlights the important place archaeology held in the interwar listening and reading market with the BBC offering high fees for a popular speaker. Incorporating periodical studies and aspects of book history demonstrates the importance of an integrated approach to media history to further our understanding of the relationship between media, science and the public.
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