Question Five: Discuss economical, demographic, political, technological, and social factors influencing the development of the newspaper and periodical journalism 1815-1915, the century when the world became what we know now.
Economics:
Printing things to make money had never happened before but with free trade and the liberal profit regime newspapers became profitable business making money.
Demographics:
This deals with population and concentration of people. The build up of cities and diminishment of rural farm life accounted for communities in which a large amount of people, speaking the same language and being interested in the same things were an appropriate and easy target for newspaper.
One of the problems of the 19th century was crime in cities.
Politics:
The time frame describes a season of great freedom, liberalism in speech, the repeal of stamp duty, free press, liable law, no more censorship, liberal political regime, and irradical press.
Technology:
The steam driven press was a great advancement for printing newspapers, thousands of copies were printed overnight which increased circulation, a huge area of importance for newspaper. The success of railway trains improved distribution, another vital area. Before newspapers would travel at the back of stage coaches arriving a week after they were printed, talk about old news. The telegraph wire allowed for news on the same day in the 1860's, one of our very successful newspapers today is named after this (The Daily Telegraph).
Socialism:
William Randalph Hearst had to deal with when he took over the Examiner in San Fransisco; trying to reach different classes, genders, and languages and later when he dealt with the New York Scene.
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