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Domestic Foundations of the International News Business, 1840–1880 Domestic Foundations of the International News Business, 1840–1880
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Inventing International News, 1840–1880 Inventing International News, 1840–1880
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Into Africa: News, Propaganda, and Empire Into Africa: News, Propaganda, and Empire
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Domestic Foundations: Commercial News in the Age of the Publisher, 1880–1900 Domestic Foundations: Commercial News in the Age of the Publisher, 1880–1900
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Consolidating International News in the British Empire and United States, 1880–1902 Consolidating International News in the British Empire and United States, 1880–1902
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Anti-colonial International News, Imperial Cooperation, and the First World War Anti-colonial International News, Imperial Cooperation, and the First World War
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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5 International News in the Age of Empire
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Published:September 2015
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Abstract
This chapter examines how news agencies and newspapers created a global system of international news production and distribution during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Britain, leading London newspapers and Reuters led this development. Reuters dominated the British market for the sale of news from abroad and exercised control over the sale of news from the British Isles throughout the world. Reuters’ dominance in these markets—a product of institutional arrangements in Britain—underwrote its early global expansion. Reuters and the London press utilized their close relationships with the British government to expand across Africa and other parts of the Empire. In the US, the Associated Press emerged as the dominant international news provider. The AP, unlike Reuters, benefited from a large and wealthy domestic market, which enabled it to expand abroad. The high costs of reporting and distributing news internationally over telegraph favored oligopoly and cooperation over competition.
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