Where the hell do NEWSPAPERS come from?
Dragons, headless bears and murder: Why Complex explains the history of newspapers.
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Sources and Further Reading:
General Overview:
‘A History of News’ by Mitchell Stephens
‘Why do we really follow the news?’ from the freakonomics podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/113127/
‘Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia’ by various authors
https://archive.org/details/NicholasJ...
Some great extra reading on headless bears in early news stories!:
‘The Adventures of the Headless Bear and Other Reprinted News in Early Modern England’ by Simon F. Davies
http://appositions.blogspot.co.uk/201...
Searchable databases where you can find early printed texts (including news):
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu
https://eebo.chadwyck.com (accessible only via library or institution)
Early Chinese News:
‘The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press’ by Xiantao Zhang
Napoleon:
‘The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda’ by Wayne Hanley
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/haw01/fram...
Maori Newspaper History:
‘Te Karere Maori and the defence of empire’ by Kenton Storey
‘The Making of the New Zealand Press’ by Patrick Adam Day
Historical database of newspapers in New Zealand:
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/new...
Waterboarding study:
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/ha...
Glenn Greenwald’s response:
https://www.salon.com/2010/06/30/medi...
Berelson paper on the New York newspaper strike:
https://simson.net/ref/1948/What_miss...
Documentary from 1945 about the strike:
https://archive.org/details/17DaysTh1945
‘Suspense and Surprise’ by Ely, Frankel and Karmenica:
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/emir....
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