Covering America
Subtitle: a narrative history of a nation's journalism
By: Christopher B. Daly
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9781558499119
Subjects: Press; Journalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The press, 1704/1920. Foundations of the American press, 1704/1763: Franklin and his contemporaries; title: Printers take sides, 1763/1832; title: Putting the news in newspapers, 1833/1850; title: Radicals all! 1830/1875: covering slavery and The Civil War; title: Crusaders and conservatives, 1875/1912: journalism in yellow and gray; title: Professionalizing the news in peace and war, 1900/1920; title: The media, 1920. Jazz age journalism, 1920/1929: magazines and radio challenge the newspaper; title: Hard times, 1929/1941: three great columnists, two great reporters, one horrible decade; title: The "good war," 1941/1945; title: Creating the big media, 1945/1963; title: Rocking the establishment, 1962/1972; title: The establishment holds, 1967/1974; title: Big media get bigger, 1980/1999; title: Going digital, 1995; title: Conclusion.