Title: A History of Journalism | Journalism
Headings: A History of Journalism
A History of Journalism
Content: The most influential technology of all time has to be the printing press. As Stephens explains when talking about the printing press “no invention changed the amount of information available to humankind as radically as the nonelectric, hand-operated machine that arrived in Europe in the 15th century” (p.75). It was revolutionary but it also intensified the battle for the control of the news (p.77). A huge issue, which I touch on in my other sections of the website is how journalists control the news. With today’s social media and citizen journalists, it is much harder for journalists to control what information is sent out and how to approach their stories. Although this is true today, controlling the news has been part of journalism for almost its entire existence. Monarchs would control the news that went out and would make sure that the news were not giving a bad image of the government (p.80). (This is a reproduction of the Gutenberg printing press) (photo: Mitchell Stephens). BALLADS
Written letters were around for many years and eventually news ballads came out from the reign of Charles VIII to the end of the 19th century (Stephens, p.85).