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
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction Extra! Extra!; 1 Birth of the New Zealander; 2 The merchant of High Street; 3 It shines, it burns, it scorches; 4 The editor's lament; 5 Going daily; 6 Newspapers at war; 7 Death of the New Zealander; 8 'What a hound that fellow is'; 9 Henry Brett and the Rollicking Rams; 10 Mr Horton makes his move; 11 Chasing a whale; 12 The spirit of the age; 13 Awar against women; 14 What readers want; 15 Bullies, bluffers and blackmailers; Conclusion Turn of the century; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R.

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