News from Around the World: The Newspapers of Buenos Aires in the Age of the Submarine Cable, 1866–1900
Journal: Hispanic American Historical Review
Year: 2016

Abstract This essay examines newspapers in late nineteenth-century Buenos Aires in order to analyze the effects of the submarine telegraph cable. After a brief description of the cable's installation, I analyze how international news was circulated, focusing particularly on the role of Havas, the first European press agency to provide such news to South America. The analysis focuses on two dimensions of the submarine cable's effect: changes in the spatial breadth of news coverage, and the accele