News and the Human Interest Story
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News and the Human Interest Story

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News and the Human Interest Story

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In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of illiterate audiences to the present. She explains how these interests ultimately were combined with practical economic and political information to create the substance and demand for a popular press.

In describing the rise and fall of newspaper empires, each with their special readership attractions, Hughes shows how technological innovation and idiosyncratic creativity were used by owners to capture and hold a reading audience. Once this audience developed, it could be fed a variety of messages—beamed at reinforcing and maintaining both general and specific publics—as well as a view of the world consonant with that of the publisher and major advertisers. Hughes offers a persuasive argument for the continuing viability of this method for combined social control, instruction, and amusement captured by the association of news and the human interest story.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351503013
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Journalism
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. I. From Politics to Human Interest
  7. II. The Front Page
  8. III. Big News and Little News
  9. IV. The Reporter and the News
  10. V. Human Interest
  11. VI. The Broadside Ballad
  12. VII. The News and the Story
  13. VIII. Perennial Stories
  14. IX. Sensationalism and the Yellow Press
  15. X. Popular Literature and the Mores
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index to Names
  18. Subject Index