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Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism
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Title
Covering America : a narrative history of a nation's journalism / Christopher B. Daly.
ISBN
9781558499119 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558499113 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xiii, 533 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 24, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The press, 1704/1920. Foundations of the American press, 1704/1763: Franklin and his contemporaries
Printers take sides, 1763/1832
Putting the news in newspapers, 1833/1850
Radicals all! 1830/1875: covering slavery and The Civil War
Crusaders and conservatives, 1875/1912: journalism in yellow and gray
Professionalizing the news in peace and war, 1900/1920
The media, 1920. Jazz age journalism, 1920/1929: magazines and radio challenge the newspaper
Hard times, 1929/1941: three great columnists, two great reporters, one horrible decade
The "good war," 1941/1945
Creating the big media, 1945/1963
Rocking the establishment, 1962/1972
The establishment holds, 1967/1974
Big media get bigger, 1980/1999
Going digital, 1995
Conclusion.
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