The business of news /
Droste, Heiko,1963-author.
Hurd, Madeleine,1957-translator.
"In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites' internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions. This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other archive material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond"--
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. News in the era of the printing press -- Chapter 2. Infrastructure -- Chapter 3. The newspaper in seventeenth-century tracts -- Chapter 4. News agents -- Chapter 5. Postmasters -- Epilogue: The Baroque and the contemporary news market.
"In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites' internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions. This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other archive material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond"--
Press
Press and politics
Journalism
Journalism