JRN185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Guardian, Japan Radio Network
29 Apr 2020
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Temple states that at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Local newspaper was almost unknown but well founded by the middle of that century, with some 130 titles written. Like berrow"s, the early arrival, they carried little local news but focused on national and foreign affairs, just as the national newspapers were expanding. Local paper was just local in the sense of distributing it locally. With the local (and to a lesser degree regional) press concentrating on their own patches. Were the only source of genuine local news. This remained the case until the arrival of: Local radio and television have always been regional rather than local. Never sought news from the "city" that has become the backbone of modern provincial print media. The end of the "intelligence taxes" in 1861 sparked the development of the local press as well as the national press. In the nineteenth century the regional press really aged.
