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For the 30 years between 1837 and 1867, the Gateshead Observer provided coverage of local and national business, financial and political news that rivalled and frequently surpassed that of the various Newcastle papers and was vastly superior to that of other north-eastern publications. This article examines how this came about. It also considers how a newspaper avowedly political in its foundation emerged, as a result of the particular circumstances of Gateshead's enfranchisement and industrial development and the individuals involved, essentially as a paper for the business community. This case study also reveals how the provincial press can shed light on an otherwise very much under-documented period of local business history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Edwardian era saw the final flowering of the partisan provincial press. In the decade before 1914, most of the major newspapers published outside London still displayed a clear party allegiance and collectively they outsold their London rivals. Some of the most important figures in the provincial press on the Liberal side were the cocoa manufacturer and philanthropist, Joseph Rowntree, and the associated trio, often known as the “Starmer group”, of Arnold Rowntree (Joseph's nephew), John Bowes Morrell (his business partner) and the newspaperman, Charles Starmer. Between them they rescued several important Liberal newspapers like the Northern Echo and Sheffield Independent for the party cause. But one of the group's lesser-known acquisitions, and its last before the First World War, was the Lincolnshire Chronicle in June 1914. This article argues that the Lincolnshire Chronicle 's purchase can best be seen as a purely commercial investment by the “Starmer group” and that this may indicate that the group was starting to become more interested in the press as a business, rather than as a political project. The article also examines how the layout and content of the Lincolnshire Chronicle were changed under its new owners in order to increase its profitability, often using methods pioneered elsewhere in the “Starmer group”, and resulting in a more standardised, “modern” format. In doing so, the article draws attention to the complexities of the interaction between power and profit in the Edwardian press and suggests the Lincolnshire Chronicle can be seen as a harbinger of the commercial, rather than political, future that lay before provincial newspaper groups in the post-First World War era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introductory article aims to raise a number of themes which will feature significantly through this special issue. The output of 19th-century journalists has been drawn upon extensively by historians in their exploration of political, social, economic and increasingly cultural areas of inquiry, both in urban and rural districts. However, in recent years, there has been relatively little attention paid to the provincial press itself. The article traces the development of the provincial press from the “scissors and paste” approach of the 18th century to the development of an increasingly locally orientated and politically partisan local press during the first half of the 19th century. Consideration will be paid to the perceived influence of the provincial press, the management and ownership of the provincial newspaper, and newspaper rivalries. It will be suggested that the heyday of the 19th-century provincial press can be located in the 30-year period after 1855. The impact of “new journalism” in the provincial press during the final years of the century will be briefly considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the development of the Polish émigré press in Great Britain for the period since 1940. The paper discusses the chief newspapers and periodicals published over the intervening sixty years, and mentions the principal editors and personalities affiliated with these publications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While the transition of traditional newspapers and magazines to the online space is gathering pace, and the literature on multimedia journalism is proliferating, little attention has been paid to date to the implications of convergence for the press in regulatory terms. One such regulatory dilemma arises from the proliferation of video content on newspaper websites. It is this question and others at the conjuncture of press freedom and the dynamics unleashed by convergence that the papers in this special section seek to shed light upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the change in regime in Hungary in 1989, there were also great changes in the Hungarian press. The press became free, in both the political and legal senses. Newspaper and magazine publishers were privatized. The number of periodicals issued yearly mushroomed, then declined. There were also large numbers of title changes, caused primarily by political and economic factors. Developments in newspapers, magazines and journals for various audiences are discussed. Technology has also changed the face of periodical publishing in Hungary: the authors estimate that as of 1998, at least 250 online periodicals were being issued in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article focuses on the subject index of the articles published in this journal. Some of the articles based on newsgathering are "Beauty and the Beasts: Significance of Press Coverage of the 1913 National Suffrage Parade," by Linda J. Lumsden, "Civic Journalism and Nonelite Sourcing: Making Routine Newswork of Community Connectedness," by Brian L. Massey, "Comparing Distinctions and Similarities across Websites of Newspapers, Radio Stations, and Television Stations," by Carolyn A. Lin and Leo W. Jeffres, "Differences in Knowledge Acquisition Among Readers of the Paper and Online Versions of a National Newspaper," by David Tewksbury and Scott L. Althaus, "The Metro Wide Web: Changes in Newspapers' Gatekeeping Role Online," by Jane B. Singer, "The Mundane and the Arcane: Prestige Media Coverage of Social and Natural Science," by William Evans, "News of Hurricane Andrew: The Agenda of Sources and the Sources' Agendas," by Michael B. Salwen.

The article focuses on the issues of the journals in the newspapers and tabloids, and their historical forms. The selection of language plays an essential part in the creation of an imaginable national community within the pages of the daily reading materials. To give a broader context to the language of the national community as constructed, they also integrate the popular version of history into the language to ensure that the national community's representation will not be the one to be suspended in a constant present, but one which comes with all the collections of the historic past.

This article examines the proposition that modern techniques of popular newspaper campaigning—on topical issues which are morally-charged but of indirect relevance to newspaper readerships—were pioneered by the late 19th-century provincial newspaper press, and most notably W. T. Stead in his early career as editor of the Northern Echo . The Bulgarian atrocities agitation of 1876, in which Stead played a leading role, was a hugely important and influential example, but is by no means unique. Freed from the shackles of metropolitan news production where journalistic innovation was hampered by a proprietorial and editorial preoccupation with elite concerns and, typically, merely recording and commenting on parliamentary affairs, Stead was able to exploit latent demand for a wider range of news material which meshed sensational detail with a strongly moral call for action. An important related theme is the strong link between radical newspapermen and the now forgotten world of provincial nonconformity. Through Stead and others—notably C. P. Scott and the Manchester Guardian —provincial nonconformity found a new way of articulating its concerns which in due course reached a wider audience. The influence of nonconformist belief and patterns of worship on the evolution of journalism repays close examination, not least because Stead—and others like him—went on to school so many other prominent journalists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A survey of 4,800 news sources cited in fourteen newspapers provides a cross-market assessment of newspaper accuracy and the effect of errors on newspaper credibility. Sources found errors in 61% of local news and feature stories, an inaccuracy rate among the highest reported in nearly seventy years of accuracy research. Newspaper credibility, as perceived by news sources, significantly declined in relation to frequency and severity of errors. Inaccuracy negatively affected source willingness to cooperate with the press. Subjective errors were considered most egregious, suggesting that how a story is conveyed is at least as important as getting the facts straight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Sand's newspaper publishing activities - from their inception in 1841 to their decline at the end of the Second Republic - deserve recognition within the history of the press. Hitherto neglected writings are analysed as a hybrid form of literary journalism according to some definitions of the genre provided by Norman Sims. This permits a focus on Sand's 'flights of imagination', articles written under pseudonyms and in the voices of fictional characters, created as a tool for idealistic political education. The now classic Benedict Anderson paradigm of 'imagined communities' is used to contextualise Sand's use of the vernacular and helps to position her contribution towards the use of newspapers as a vehicle for the communication of democratic and progressive ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study explores to what extent new communication technologies have played a revolutionizing role in the ways in which news reporters acquire information. Reporters reconstructed how they used different technologies in order to obtain each of their sampled items, both before and after the introduction of new communication technologies into the Israeli daily press. Changes appear to be minor. Reporters continued to contact sources directly, negotiate their versions orally, and use technologies to replace physical presence at news scenes and face-to-face interviews. This relative stability might reflect the fact that, in the interplay between forces for continuity (represented by the ongoing patterns of newswork) and forces for change (suggested by the new technologies), the role of the former has been dominant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a quantitative analysis of Radio Australia's Indonesian news and current affairs programs in the seven days after the massacre, conducted by Radio Australia shows that the story was given extensive coverage. In that week, of the 626 news stories in the international news bulletins in Indonesia, 45 were about the Dili shootings, compared with 23 on other Indonesian issues. In terms of time taken up by the stories, 15.8% of the total was about East Timor and 4.5% about other Indonesian issues. In the current affairs program, International Report, of 48 new items, eighteen dealt with the Dili killings and one with another Indonesian story. In terms of duration, the East Timor story took up 37.5% and the other Indonesian story 2%.