The Invention of the Newspaper
The Invention of the Newspaper

Author: Joad Raymond

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780199282340

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper
An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper

Author: Laurent Curelly

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1527500632

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book explores the content of The Moderate, a radical newspaper of the British Civil Wars published in the pivotal years 1648-9. This newsbook, as newspapers were then known, is commonly associated with the Leveller movement, a radical political group that promoted a democratic form of government. While valuable studies have been published on the history of seventeenth-century English periodicals, as well as on the interaction between these newspapers and print culture at large, very little has been written on individual newspapers. This book fills a void: it provides an in-depth investigation of the news printed in The Moderate, with reference to other newspapers and to the larger historical context, and captures the essence of this periodical, seen both as a political publication and a commercial product. This book will be of interest to early-modern historians and literary scholars.

English News Writing
English News Writing

Author: Bryce Telfer McIntyre

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9789622017313

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

English News Writing is a professional writer's handbook for newspaper reporters, magazine freelancers and journalism students who write in English. The focus is on writing rather than reporting. There is a thorough treatment of style, usage, and the many structures of news stories, as well as dozens of tips on how writers can improve their work. Specifically, the book includes thorough discussions of interviewing techniques, the inverted pyramid, speech coverage, feature writing, reporting on trends, reporting on public opinion polls, using social indicators to develop news stories, writing criticism, writing personality profiles, narrative styles of writing, question-and-answer stories, and the jargon of the journalism profession. Examples of news structures are annotated. The book also includes 42 Rules of Thumb that serve as a quick reference for reporters to improve their work.

Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse

Author: Minna Palander-Collin

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9027265518

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like sports reports, advertisements and comic strips to a variety of news practices. All contributions view news discourse in a specific historical period or across time and relate language features to their sociohistorical contexts and changing ideologies. The varying needs and expectations of the newspaper producers, writers and readers, and even news agents, are taken into account. The articles use interdisciplinary study methods and move at interfaces between sociolinguistics, journalism, semiotics, literary theory, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociology.