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Extra! Extra!: How the People Made the News
David Hastings
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Description for Extra! Extra!: How the People Made the News
Paperback. The newspaper wars of nineteenth-century Auckland were life or death struggles, with the odds heavily in favour of death. Extra! Extra! tells the story of the newspapers, the editors and reporters and owners who made them, and the readers who decided what was news and which papers would live or die. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; DNJ; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200.
Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys’ cries of ‘Extra! Extra!’ Crime and shipping news, the arrival of Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pā. From the mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the establishment of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star as the two papers that would dominate Auckland newspaper life through the twentieth century, the story of Auckland’s newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history of the people and ... Read more
Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys’ cries of ‘Extra! Extra!’ Crime and shipping news, the arrival of Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pā. From the mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the establishment of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star as the two papers that would dominate Auckland newspaper life through the twentieth century, the story of Auckland’s newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history of the people and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869407384
SKU
V9781869407384
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About David Hastings
David Hastings is the author of the bestselling Over the Mountains of the Sea: A Life on the Migrant Ship. Born in Belize to a British colonial service family, he has worked as a journalist in broadcast and in print since 1970. Currently living in New Zealand, he is the editor of Auckland’s Weekend Herald.
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