Reportage, Rumours, and Conversation
Curating News During Political Upheaval in Eighteenth Century Copenhagen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12604751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulrik Langen (0000-0002-9537-8801, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-162 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8804 • E-ISSN: 1469-9729 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688804.2022.2054412 |
| OpenAlex | W4220773881 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Immediately following the dramatic coup against J. F. Struensee in 1772, information on the events at court was in high demand. Amid this political upheaval an enterprising publicist in Copenhagen launched a new magazine with the explicit ambition of reporting whatever information could by picked up about the coup. In order not to be on a collision course with the new regime the magazine invented a new way of curating different types of intelligence by segregating news, rumours, and commentary in recurrent columns. This adaptable news coverage evaded controversy by reflexive intertwinement of the contents of the columns, while at the same time giving readers the opportunity to make their own value attribution of the information presented
Attribution · Business · Conversation · Media studies · News values · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Communication · Computer Science · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
News in Early Modern Europe
The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe
Censorship in the Nordic Countries, ca.1750–1890
Newspaper reporting and attitudes to crime and justice in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century London
Northern Declarations of Freedom of the Press
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |