Communities of journalism : a history of American newspapers and their readers

Communities of journalism : a history of American newspapers and their readers / David Paul Nord.

Widely acknowledged as one of our most insightful commentators on the history of journalism in the United State, David Paul Nord offers a lively and wide-ranging discussion of journalism as a vital component of community. In settings ranging from the religion-infused towns of colonial America to the...

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Main Author: Nord, David Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Series:History of communication.
Subjects:
Journalism > United States > History.
American newspapers > History.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : communication and community
  • pt. 1. Communities of production
  • 1. Teleology and news : the religious roots of American journalism, 1630-1730
  • 2. The authority of truth : religion and the John Peter Zenger case
  • 3. Newspapers and American nationhood, 1776-1826
  • 4. Tocqueville, Garrison, and the perfection of journalism
  • 5. The public community : the urbanization of journalism in Chicago
  • 6. The business values of American newspapers : the nineteenth-century watershed
  • 7. The paradox of municipal reform in the late nineteenth century
  • pt. 2. Communities of reception
  • 8. A republican literature : a study of magazine readers and reading in late eighteenth-century New York
  • 9. Readership as citizenship in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia
  • 10. Working-class readers : family, community, and reading in late nineteenth-century America
  • 11. Reading the newspaper : strategies and politics of reader response, Chicago, 1912-17
  • 12. Readers love to argue about the news, but not in newspapers
  • Afterword : newspapers, readers, and communities today.

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