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Author Read, Donald

Title The power of news : the history of Reuters / Donald Read
Edition 2nd ed
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 540 pages) : illustrations
Contents Julius Reuter: before and after 1851 -- 'The great Reuter' -- An imperial institution, 1865-1914 -- The world's news, 1865-1914 -- Wartime reconstruction, 1914-1918 -- War news, 1914-1918 -- The autocracy of Roderick Jones, 1919-1934 -- The decline and fall of Roderick Jones, 1934-1941 -- News between the wars, 1919-1939 -- War news, 1939-1945 -- 'In the nature of a trust', 1941-1963 -- Making the new Reuters, 1963-1981 -- Achieving worldwide presence, 1963-1981 -- Going public, 1981-1984 -- The world's news, 1945-1989 -- Retrospect, 1849-1989
Summary Completely rewritten, this is the story of Reuters, the international news agency. In 1851 Julius Reuter set up the London organisation which was eventually to extend itself & its influence throughout most of the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 490-518) and index
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Subject Reuters Limited.
SUBJECT Reuters Limited. fast (OCoLC)fst01801462
Subject Reuters Holding.
Persbureaus.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191677779
0191677779