TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sotiron,Minko
TI  - From politics to profit: the commercialization of Canadian daily newspapers, 1890-1920 
SN  - 9780773565814
AV  - PN4908 .S68 1997eb
U1  - 071/.1/09041 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Montreal [Que.]
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - Canadian newspapers
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Canadian newspapers (English)
KW  - Journaux canadiens-anglais
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Journalisme
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Zeitung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kommerzialisierung
KW  - Dagbladen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vercommercialisering
KW  - Journaux canadiens de langue anglaise
KW  - 1870-1914
KW  - ram
KW  - Geschichte 1890-1920
KW  - swd
KW  - Kanada
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index; 1. Public Myth and Private Reality -- 2. Big Business -- 3. Publisher Power and the Rise of the Business Manager -- 4. It Pays to Advertise -- 5. Competition and Collusion -- 6. Concentration -- 7. Patronage and Independence -- 8. Joining the Elite -- 9. Interest Politics
N2  - Minko Sotiron describes how, in their drive to maximize profits, publishers abandoned partisan politics and adopted sensationalistic journalism to build audiences for advertisers. He analyses the changes newspapers underwent in both content and appearance as the number of "fluff" pieces increased and hard news stories decreased, headlines became larger, prose became simpler, and illustrations and photographs became more abundant. From Politics to Profit highlights the increasingly powerful role of the press barons - Lord Atholstan, John Ross Robertson, Joseph Atkinson, Walter Nichol, Clifford Sifton, and the Southam family. Sotiron provides a case study of the first Canadian newspaper chain, which formed the basis for modern mass communication empires, and shows how the Southams contributed to the disappearance of independent newspapers in Canada
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