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A history of news (1988)★ 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1988The widest lens on the subject. Stephens treats the printed paper as one chapter in a much older human habit of passing on what happened, so any single newsroom story reads less like the history of an industry and more like the latest turn in something people have always done. A good first read if…0 - 2
The invention of news (2014)★ 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2014How Europe learned to trade in news before the newspaper existed. Pettegree follows manuscript newsletters, pamphlets and news singers from the late Middle Ages to the age of revolution, and shows that the first weekly papers, such as the one Johann Carolus printed in Strasbourg in 1605, struggled…0 - 3
Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper (2026)Published 16 Jun 2026A lively recent guide to how America became a nation of newspapers. Wright concentrates on the nineteenth century, when the number of American papers grew roughly five hundredfold between the Revolution and the early twentieth century, and fills it with printers, editors, reformers and chancers…0 - 4
Froth & scum (1994)Published 1 Jan 1994Park Row in the age of the penny press, seen through two sensational New York killings: the murder of Helen Jewett in 1836 and of Samuel Adams in 1841. Tucher shows James Gordon Bennett's Herald and its rivals printing reams about the Jewett case, much of it made up, and asks how a city decides…0 - 5
Tickle the public (1996)Published 1 Jan 1996A century of the British popular press, written for the hundredth anniversary of the Daily Mail's launch in 1896 but far from a birthday tribute. Engel argues that almost nothing in the early Mail was original, looks back to the Telegraph for techniques it borrowed, and pokes holes in its first…0 - 6
My Trade (2004)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2004A short history of British journalism from someone who ran a national paper: Marr edited The Independent in the late 1990s before moving into broadcasting. Part history and part trade manual, it explains how reporters, columnists, subs and editors actually work, then tells how the craft got there.…0 - 7
The First Casualty (1975)Published 1 Jan 1975The history of the war correspondent, starting with William Howard Russell's Crimean dispatches for The Times and running through every major conflict since. Knightley, who spent twenty years at The Sunday Times, is unsentimental about the trade, as the book's subtitle suggests by casting reporters…0 - 8
The defender (2016)Published 1 Jan 2016The first full history of the Chicago Defender, the Black weekly Robert Abbott started in 1905 that exposed lynchings in the South and urged readers to join the Great Migration north. Michaeli worked at the paper in the 1990s as a copy editor and reporter, and he keeps the focus on the journalists…0 - 9
The kingdom and the power (1969)Published 1 Jan 1969The classic inside portrait of The New York Times, by a writer who joined the paper as a copyboy in 1953 and left as a reporter in 1965. Talese is interested in people more than front pages: the editors, factions and rivalries that shaped what the most powerful paper in America printed from the end…0 - 10
The paper (1986)Published 1 Jan 1986The life and death of the New York Herald Tribune, the elegant rival to the Times that closed in 1966. Kluger worked there in its final years, and his long book follows the paper from its nineteenth-century roots to its last edition. Reviewers hailed it as perhaps the best book ever written about…0
