Making National News - 9781442615328

Making National NewsA History of Canadian Press\nAuthor(s): Gene Allen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442615328, 978-1442615328\nSynopsis\nFor almost a century, Canadian newspapers, radio and television stations, and now internet news sites have depended on the Canadian Press news agency for most of their Canadian (and, through its international alliances) foreign news. This book provides the first-ever scholarly history of CP, as well as the most wide-ranging historical treatment of twentieth-century Canadian journalism published to date.\n\n Using extensive archival research, including complete and unfettered access to CPs archives, Gene Allen traces how CP was established and evolved in the face of frequent conflicts among the powerful newspaper publishers John Ross Robertson, Joseph Atkinson, and Roy Thomson, among others who collectively owned it, and how the journalists who ran it understo.