Country conscience: A history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995

Infinite Harvest Pub, 2000 This lively and thought-provoking study in social, economic, cultural and technological history covers the NSW provincial presses from the days when printing presses travelled between goldfields in ox-carts to the corporate empires of today. Examines challenges, past and present, and dynastic success and failure. Machine generated contents note: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: CHRONOLOGICAL 1 You cannot serve two masters: Strode and his Gazettes 2 Slow forties and fast fifties 3 Vitality tested and tried 4 Rushes and riots: the 1860s 5 Great race for glory: the 1870s 6 Leverage, celebrity and service: the 1880s 7 Cutting off the community's bloodstream: the 1890s THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ECONOMICS 8 Between the creek and the small debts court 9 Martyrs versus parasites ROLE, POLITICS AND LIBEL 10 Line upon line 11 Great generative force: press and politics 12 'Penny gag': postal charges for papers 13 Setting out to unite the colonies 14 Attacking the blight of narrowness 15 Libels and long purses THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 16 Breathing life into dry bones: the NSW Country Press Association 17 It takes two to make an argument: amalgamation 18 When a daily chronicle is imperative PROPRIETORS AND EDITORS 19 A queer game: the editors (19th century) 20 Transfer of power: the editors (20th century) 21 Why dynasties disintegrate 22 Conglomeration of generations: the Vincents 23 Never believe what a traveller tells you: the Westons 24 A weakness for starting papers: the Bradleys and the Woods CHAIN OWNERSHIP 25 Coming of the corporations 26 Breaking the mould: Armati, Newton and Lord 27 Little acorn becomes Rural Press Ltd 28 Miners' voice and murder special: Newcastle and Wollongong GATHERING AND PRODUCING THE NEWS 29 The shipping news - and it's grim: the news (19th century) 30 Eyeball-to-eyeball reporting: the news (20th century) 31 Meltdown: the technology of newspaper production 32 New site for a new millennium: 1930-1995 33 End note