October 2015, Year VII, n. 10
Andrew Pettegree
Who needs news, anyway?
Editorial
The important newspaper Corriere della Sera has created a new app and called it “Le Bussole di oggi” [Today’s compasses]. Its presentation reads as follows: “Events to keep an eye on during the day, explained and contextualised from early morning onwards by ... more
Telos: The title of your most recent book is “The invention of news” and it tells it all. However what is even more intriguing is how it goes on “how the world came to know about itself”. What does it mean?
Andrew Pettegree: Before I wrote my book the history of news was usually written as a history of newspapers. So now, as the newspaper takes an ever smaller role in a multi-media environment, it seemed a good time to cast our eye back to a world before the newspaper: and discover, as I did, a vibrant multi-media environment of correspondence, pamphlets, manuscript news ... more
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