The Media and Society, 18501950

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The Media and Society, 1850-1950 Dr. Laura
Beers Fridays, 10-11, Rm. 5
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Newspaper Circulations 2008 (population 61
million)
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Newspaper Circulations 1950 (population 50
million)
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Early British newspapers

• Founded
• London Gazette (official government
  newspaper, irregular frequency)
• 1702 Daily Courant (first daily paper. Folded
  1735)
• 1704 Bristol Post-Boy (first provincial
  newspaper)
• Evening Post (first evening newspaper)
• 1709 Worcester Post-Man (later Berrows
  Worcester Journal) Oldest surviving indpt.paper
• 1709 Tatler founded by Addison and Steele.
  (Folded 1711)
• 1711 Spectator found by Addison and Steele.
  (Folded 1712)
• 1737 Belfast Newsletter. First Irish paper, and
  worlds oldest surviving daily paper
• 1745 Aberdeen Journal founded (later Press and
  Journal) oldest surviving Scottish paper
• 1772 Morning Post founded
• 1785 Daily Universal Register (becomes The Times
  in 1788)
• 1791 The Observer founded (oldest surviving
  Sunday paper)
• 1804 Cambrian, first Welsh paper (published in
  Swansea)
• 1808 North Wales Gazette (published in Bangor)
• 1817 Scotsman
• 1821 Manchester Guardian
• 1831 Poor Mans Guardian
• 1837 Northern Star, Chartist paper, published by
  Fergus OConnor

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Early telegraph register
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Trans-Atlantic telegraph
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Koenig Printing Press, 1814
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The first photograph, View from the Window at
Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1826
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William Simpson, Charge of the Light Cavalry at
Balaclava Illustrated London News
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Roger Fenton, War Cemetery on Cathcart's Hill,
Crimea
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Daily Graphic, 26 July 1909 Daily Mirror, 3
August 1914