News Over the Wires

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News Over the Wires is written by Menahem Blondheim and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 067462212X (ISBN 10) and 9780674622128 (ISBN 13).

This unique history of telegraphic news gathering and news flow evaluates the effect of the innovative technology on the evolution of the concept of news and journalistic practices. It also addresses problems of technological innovation and diffusion. Menahem Blondheim's main concern, however, is the development of oligopoly in business and the control revolution in American society. He traces the discovery of timely news as a commodity, presenting a lively and detailed account of the emergence of the New York Associated Press (AP) as the first private sector national monopoly in the United States and Western Union as the first industrial one.