What are the economic forces that supported newspapers? How did they make money and what was their primary source of funds?
This is a question about your reading from Ian Hargreaves: “Born Free: A Brief History of News Media.” Electronic Reserves or Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DKVtjNDLCcy5-bXCwc6Go-UV3yjA6ItM/view?usp=sharing Hargreaves discusses the relationship between different forms of media and the economic and political structures that existed at the time they were invented. A) “Newspapers have their roots in commercial markets,” […]