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In the fifty years before 1914, London was served by Reuters, the world's leading news agency. Reuters both led and reflected London's expanding interests in world affairs, so analysis of its news supply offers insights into London's situation as a late nineteenth-century world city. Saskia Sassen has defined global cities as forming a network with transnational producer services firms contracting with transnational corporations to supply the services that are necessary for their global businesses. This article asks whether Reuters offered worldwide coverage, operated as an imperial network, or functioned as a transnational producer services enterprise networking world cities. It does so by mapping the world news Reuters delivered to London newspapers using the telegraphic records of the Reuters Group Archive for sample news weeks in 1865, 1881, and 1914. Analysis reveals that Reuters was a nineteenth-century producer services firm offering transnational services organized by a web of enterprise and focused on a network of world cities. This suggests in turn that London may have been a global city before 1914., Recent scholarship informs us that London served as the world's bond market between 1865 and 1914, and that while its bankers favored the empire, including its poorest territories, by offering [...]

The connection between large international news agencies and their smaller national counterparts was a key characteristic of the international news system that emerged in the late nineteenth century. This article examines the tensions between these unequal partners by considering the early relationship between the Associated Press and the Canadian Press, which was Canada's domestic news agency. Canadian publishers were uneasy about their reliance on AP, but they considered it indispensable and believed a direct relationship gave them more influence over the news they received. AP believed its own interests were best served if the Canadians overcame their differences and formed a functioning national news organization. Paradoxically, the AP-CP relationship helped create an important institution of Canadian nationally even while cementing its subordinate status

A 1909 government investigation of the press cable monopoly and its influence on Australian media policy development is discussed. Topics include the Australian Senate inquiry and its findings, the monopolization of Australia's press cable news by the APA/Reuters combine, and the inquiry's influence on media policy development.

Nineteenth-century news agencies were the first organizations to globalize electronic news. Near-instantaneous transmission of distant events altered popular perception of time and space. This global news space has been characterized as having no frontiers, but the news agencies took considerable care to erect territorial and temporal barriers that, in many cases, continue to control public access and perception.

April of 1950 was not an earth-shaking month; but it managed to make some history. President Truman fired Gen. Douglas McArthur. Jordan annexed the West Bank. Composer Kurt Weill died, [...]

Newly discovered documents date the origin of The Associated Press to 1846, two years earlier than previously believed, the AP reported Jan. 31. The documents were provided by the great-great-grandson [...]

Never was a news photographer's life more challenging than in the sixties, particularly 1968, as visions of violence were captured on film. A prisoner is slain in Vietnam; Martin Luther [...]

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