Extra! Extra! : how the people made the news

Extra! Extra! : how the people made the news / David Hastings.

?Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys' cries of?Extra! Extra!' Crime and shipping news, the arrival of Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pa. From the mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the...

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Main Author: Hastings, David, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2013.
Edition:[North American edition].
Subjects:
1800-1899
New Zealand newspapers > New Zealand > Auckland > History > 19th century.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
New Zealand newspapers
New Zealand > Auckland
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:?Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys' cries of?Extra! Extra!' Crime and shipping news, the arrival of Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pa. From the mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the establishment of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star as the two papers that would dominate Auckland newspaper life through the twentieth century, the story of Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history o.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781775585466
1775585468
1306160316
9781306160315
9781775580645
1775580644
9781869407773
1869407776
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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