JRN185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Guardian, Japan Radio Network
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Newspaper Publishing
● Local News:
○ 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
○ Was reversed later
○ To the present day
○ With the local (and to a lesser degree regional) press concentrating on their own
patches
○ A unique selling point for them
○ Were the only source of genuine local news
○ This remained the case until the arrival of:
■ Electronic rivals
■ Radio
■ Television
● 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
○ By 1854 there were 290 regional newspapers in Manchester with five, and in
Liverpool alone with 12
○ Established as a weekly in 1821, The Manchester Guardian had the largest
regional circulation of 8,000 copies
● Temple documents the provincial press thriving during the mid-Victorian period
○ There were 18 London-based newspapers and 96 provincial dailies
○ After the establishment of the Daily Mail in 1896, the birth of a mass national
daily press was to 'wreak havoc on the provincial morning news'
○ Ownership consolidation started with 'growth in newspaper chains' in the early
part of the twentieth century, and has continued ever since
○ Competition gave way to the territorial monopolies in broad conurbations
○ Between the world wars there has been a 'spectacular consolidation of the
regional chains'