From Data to News

Weather Reporting, Telegraphy and the Press in Colonial Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID5716045
AuthorsDenis Cryle (corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume157
Issue1
Pages93-102
Publication date2015-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x1515700112
OpenAlexW2218864885
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

This article examines the role of telegraphy and newspapers in the provision of weather news during the late nineteenth century. In order to trace the transformation from data to news, the discussion begins by documenting the formation of both technical and professional meteorological networks, at a time when government observers across the colonies began to compile joint reports for an expanding reading public. In this respect, its focus will be primarily on the use of the inter-colonial telegraph, and upon two influential observers operating in different Australian colonies: Charles Todd in South Australia and Clement Wragge in Queensland. In order to explore the development of colonial weather networks in the age of the telegraph, the article examines the protracted press and professional controversy that arose between these two media personalities, and maps the transformation of weather telegrams into news by late colonial newspapers

Colonialism · Media studies · News media · Newspaper · Political science · Publishing · Sociology · Telecommunications · Telegraphy · Australian History and Society · Engineering · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub