European News-Agency Beginnings: The Role of S. Engländer. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Palmer, Michael
• Is Part Of: Media history. Volume 22:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 27
• Page End: 39
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: News-agencies -- Reuters -- Havas -- Wolff -- Engländer; Mass media -- History -- Periodicals; Press -- History -- Periodicals; Journalism -- History -- Periodicals; 070.09
• DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2015.1082904
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1368-8804

Abstract

Abstract : There is little archival evidence about the beginnings of what might be termed the leading nineteenth-century European news agencies—Havas in Paris, Reuter in various European news-centres and then London, and Wolff in Berlin; the concept of the news agency, by contrast, has been dated to late sixteenth-century Italy. Why was it that in some two decades between 1832 and 1851, what would become leading news agencies set up shop? How was it that, within a half-century, an organisation of European-based news agencies, joined by the US AP in 1875, was held to channel much of the flow of international news?