11ESSENTIAL READINGS FOR JOURNALISTS
SOME KEY HISTORIES
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself, by Andrew Pettegree. (2014)
The European origins of newspapers.
Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism, by Christopher B. Daly. (2012)
A narrative of three centuries of the news industries in America.
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, by John Maxwell Hamilton. (2011)
A history of foreign correspondence by U.S. journalists.
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications, by Paul Starr. (2004)
Origins of postal service, newspapers, magazines, telegraph, radio.
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, by Geoffrey R. Stone. (2005)
History of the ...
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