Title: Windows on the world : the information process in a changing society, 1900-1920 /
Authors: Desmond, Robert W. 1900-1985.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Journalism History; World War, 1914-1918 Journalists.; News agencies History
Contents: Part I : A new century -- Public information in a changing world -- The flow of news : decade one (1900-10) -- Changing perspectives in the press -- Communications and the electronic age -- Washington becomes a major news center -- The United States discovers the world -- The British and Empire press -- The world press -- Part II : A world at war -- The flow of news : decade two (1910-20) -- Rehearsals for Armageddon -- Confrontation : the Great War, 1914-18 -- Coverage of a world at war, 1914-17 -- Media changes and U.S. agency extensions -- Russia, the eastern front, and revolution, 1914-18 -- The last year of the war, 1917-18 -- The peace conference, 1919-20 -- Part III : New dimensions in information -- The communications arts -- Electronic journalism : news on the air -- Periodical journalism and the news magazines -- Photo-journalism : a new era -- The public affairs column.