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From politics to profit : the commercialization of Canadian daily newspapers, 1890-1920 / Minko Sotiron.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997.Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773565814
  • 0773565817
  • 1282853740
  • 9781282853744
  • 9786612853746
  • 6612853743
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From politics to profits.DDC classification:
  • 071/.1/09041 21
LOC classification:
  • PN4908 .S68 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.

Print version record.

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.

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

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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