“Quickening Urgency”

The Telegraph and Wire Services in 1846–1893

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ID23644274
AutoresTerhi Rantanen (0000-0002-5345-6699, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Data de publicação2012-12-28
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781444361506.wbiems015
OpenAlexW2911853522
ISBN9781444361506
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas19

This chapter argues that the history of wire services cannot only be written in a national context. In order to gain a fuller understanding of the origins of wire services and telegraph and submarine cables in any country, we need to include their relationships with their counterparts in other countries. Wire services, by their very nature, were interwoven with one another through the technology they used and across national boundaries. The chapter explores the early stages of development of the telegraph and wire services in the United States and Europe that led to monopolies that were all interconnected: the New York Associated Press's monopoly on the domestic news market, Western Union's hegemony on the US market, the European news cartel's monopoly on the world's news market, and the cable monopoly over the Atlantic submarine cable.

Business · Cartel · Competition (biology) · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Economy · Geography · Hegemony · International trade · Market economy · Monopoly · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Quickening · Submarine · Telecommunications · Australian History and Society · Engineering · European history and politics · Finance · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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