Journalism : Print, Politics and Popular Culture.

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"Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture investigates the fascinating history of print journalism in Australia in all its aspects — the lives, working conditions, and consciousness of journalists, and the newspapers and magazines they produced. It investigates the inventiveness of the journalists themselves, and the changing patterns of ownership and readership to which they continually adapted. The authors analyse their subject from both inside and outside, combining occasional sharp criticism with warm appreciation. Print journalism has long provided an arena for a public sphere of debate, from the local to the national and international. It has also supported a lively popular culture, in its coverage of sport, crime, and endless stories of human interest. With the challenge from new communication technologies now suggesting radical changes to the forms and cultural impact of print journalism, an understanding of its long, adventurous, and complex history is more interesting and important than ever before.
Ann Curthoys holds the Manning Clark Chair of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of many historical essays, on subjects such as women's, Aboriginal, political, and media history. She has previously co-edited six books, and is the author of For and Against Feminism.
Julianne Schultz is the General Manager of Corporate Strategy and Communications at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has worked as an academic, journalism educator, and journalist, including as editor of the 'Perspectives' page in the Courier-Mail. Her most recent book is Reviving the Fourth Estate (CUP 1998)."
CONTENTS :
0. Introduction: Histories of Journalism by Ann Curthoys ;
I. The Colonial Press :
1. Clem Lloyd British Press Traditions, Colonial Governors, and the Struggle for a 'Free' Press ;
2. Rod Kirkpatrick House of Unelected Representatives: the Provincial Press 1825-1900 ;
3. Elizabeth Morrison Black Wednesday and 'The Manufacture of Public Opinion' ;
4. Denis Cryle 'Old Tales, New Techniques': Popular Journalism 1860-1930 ;
5. Frank Bongiorno The Radical Press ;
6. Sylvia Lawson Print Circus: the Bulletin from 1880 to Federation ;
II. The Twentieth Century :
7. Paula Hamilton Journalists, Gender and Workplace Culture 1900-1940 ;
8. John Docker Feminism, Modernism and Orientalism in The Home in the 1920s ;
9. Kathryn Evans The Shadow of the Photographer: Images on Paper ;
10. Bridget Griffen-Foley Operating on 'an Intelligent Level': Cadet Training at Consolidated Press in the 1940s ;
11. David McKnight The Investigative Tradition in Australian Journalism 1945-1965 ;
12. Matthew Ricketson Newspaper Feature Writing in Australia 1956-1996 ;
13. Pat Buckridge Editors as Intellectuals ;
14. Stephen Mills Polling, Politics and the Press 1941-1996 ;
15. Rosslyn Reed Journalism and Technology Practice Since the Second World War ;
16. Jennifer Kitchener Business Journalism in the 1980s ;
III. Overviews :
17. Prue Torney-Parlicki The Australian Journalist as Historian ;
18. Julianne Schultz The Many Paradoxes of Independence ;
Notes / Index.