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Covering America : A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (554 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613761953
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Covering AmericaDDC classification:
  • 071.309
LOC classification:
  • PN4855
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Press, 1704-1920 -- Chapter 1: Foundations of the American Press, 1704-1763 Franklin and His Contemporaries -- Chapter 2: Printers Take Sides, 1763-1832 -- Chapter 3: Putting the News in Newspapers, 1833-1850 -- Chapter 4: Radicals All! 1830-1875 : Covering Slavery and the Civil War -- Chapter 5: Crusaders and Conservatives, 1875-1912 : Journalism in Yellow and Gray -- Chapter 6: Professionalizing the News in Peace and War, 1900-1920 -- Part II: The Media, 1920- -- Chapter 7: Jazz Age Journalism, 1920-1929 : Magazines and Radio Challenge the Newspaper -- Chapter 8: Hard Times, 1929-1941 : Three Great Columnists, Two Great Reporters, One Horrible Decade -- Chapter 9: The "Good War," 1941-1945 -- Chapter 10: Creating Big Media, 1945-1963 -- Chapter 11: Rocking the Establishment, 1962-1972 -- Chapter 12: The Establishment Holds, 1967-1974 -- Chapter 13: Big Media Get Bigger, 1980-1999 -- Chapter 14: Going Digital, 1995- -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Major Periods in the History of U.S. Journalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Press, 1704-1920 -- Chapter 1: Foundations of the American Press, 1704-1763 Franklin and His Contemporaries -- Chapter 2: Printers Take Sides, 1763-1832 -- Chapter 3: Putting the News in Newspapers, 1833-1850 -- Chapter 4: Radicals All! 1830-1875 : Covering Slavery and the Civil War -- Chapter 5: Crusaders and Conservatives, 1875-1912 : Journalism in Yellow and Gray -- Chapter 6: Professionalizing the News in Peace and War, 1900-1920 -- Part II: The Media, 1920- -- Chapter 7: Jazz Age Journalism, 1920-1929 : Magazines and Radio Challenge the Newspaper -- Chapter 8: Hard Times, 1929-1941 : Three Great Columnists, Two Great Reporters, One Horrible Decade -- Chapter 9: The "Good War," 1941-1945 -- Chapter 10: Creating Big Media, 1945-1963 -- Chapter 11: Rocking the Establishment, 1962-1972 -- Chapter 12: The Establishment Holds, 1967-1974 -- Chapter 13: Big Media Get Bigger, 1980-1999 -- Chapter 14: Going Digital, 1995- -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Major Periods in the History of U.S. Journalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Back Cover.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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