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Breaking the News: 500 Years of News in Britain - Hardcover

 
9780712354417: Breaking the News: 500 Years of News in Britain
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0712354417 ISBN 13: 9780712354417
Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Whether tainted by censorship and suppression or hailed as a liberator of truth, the news is integral to our daily life. From the first newspaper publication just over 400 years ago to today’s 24-hour coverage of events in print and online, on television and on social media, the scope of news has altered drastically and permanently. Fast-evolving technologies and attitudes have shaped not only how we make news but, more crucially, how we consume it.But what makes an event ‘news’? Are we justified in our skepticism about shocking images and inflammatory headlines? Or is the news a vital tool, enabling worldwide activism movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and enforcing necessary scrutiny of the ethics of those in power?Accompanying a major exhibition at the British Library, Breaking the News asks prescient questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a grisly seventeenth-century murder, Covid-19 public information campaigns, the NSA leak by Edward Snowden and the media’s treatment of celebrities from Princess Diana to Jade Goody. Short profiles also highlight influential news breakers through history, including

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Luke McKernan is Lead Curator of News and Moving Images Collections at the British Library. Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and Head ofthe Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield.Jackie holds the UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, JournalismSafety and the Issue of Impunity since 2018.

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From the first newspaper publication just over 400 years ago to today’s 24-hour coverage of events, fast-evolving technologies and attitudes have shaped not only how we make news but, more crucially, how we consume it. But what makes an event ‘news’? Are we justified in our scepticism about shocking images and inflammatory headlines? Or is the news a vital tool, enabling worldwide activism movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and enforcing necessary scrutiny of the ethics of those in power? Accompanying a major exhibition at the British Library, Breaking the News asks prescient questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a grisly seventeenth-century murder, Covid-19 public information campaigns, the NSA leak by Edward Snowden and the media’s treatment of celebrities from Princess Diana to Jade Goody. Short profiles also highlight influential news breakers through history, including writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, photojournalist Mohamed Amin and environmental rights activist Greta Thunberg.

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Verlag
British Library Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712354417
ISBN 13 
9780712354417
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Herausgeber
Harrison Jackie, McKernan Luke
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