Communities of journalism
Subtitle: a history of American newspapers and their readers
By: David Paul Nord.
Series: The History of communication
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Journalism -- United States -- History.; American newspapers -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  Acknowledgments ix; title: Introduction: Communication and Community 1; title: PART 1: COMMUNITIES OF PRODUCTION; title: 1. Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American; title: Journalism, 1630-1730 31; title: 2. The Authority of Truth: Religion and the; title: John Peter Zenger Case 65; title: 3. Newspapers and American Nationhood, 1776-1826 80; title: 4. Tocqueville, Garrison, and the Perfection of Journalism 92; title: 5. The Public Community: The Urbanization of Journalism; title: in Chicago 108; title: 6. The Business Values of American Newspapers:; title: The Nineteenth-Century Watershed 133; title: 7. The Paradox of Municipal Reform in the Late; title: Nineteenth Century 152; title: PART 2: COMMUNITIES OF RECEPTION; title: 8. A Republican Literature: A Study of Magazine Readers and; title: Reading in Late Eighteenth-Century New York 175; title: 9. Readership as Citizenship in Late Eighteenth-Century; title: Philadelphia 199; title: 10. Working-Class Readers: Family, Community, and Reading in; title: Late Nineteenth-Century America 225; title: 11. Reading the Newspaper: Strategies and Politics of Reader; title: Response, Chicago, 1912-17 246; title: 12. Readers Love to Argue about the News-But Not; title: in Newspapers 278; title: Afterword: Newspapers, Readers, and Communities Today 285; title: Index 289.