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Author Hastings, David, 1952-

Title Extra! Extra! : how the people made the news / David Hastings.

Publication Info. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2013.

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Edition [North American edition].
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction Extra! Extra!; 1 Birth of the New Zealander; 2 The merchant of High Street; 3 It shines, it burns, it scorches; 4 The editor's lament; 5 Going daily; 6 Newspapers at war; 7 Death of the New Zealander; 8 'What a hound that fellow is'; 9 Henry Brett and the Rollicking Rams; 10 Mr Horton makes his move; 11 Chasing a whale; 12 The spirit of the age; 13 Awar against women; 14 What readers want; 15 Bullies, bluffers and blackmailers; Conclusion Turn of the century; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R.
Summary ?Rowing on the Waitemata to grab the latest news from incoming ships. Rushing out a special afternoon edition to the paper boys' cries of?Extra! Extra!' Crime and shipping news, the arrival of Governor Grey and the fall of Ruapekapeka Pa. From the mid-nineteenth-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the establishment of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star as the two papers that would dominate Auckland newspaper life through the twentieth century, the story of Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history o.
Subject New Zealand newspapers -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History -- 19th century.
New Zealand newspapers -- Editors.
New Zealand newspapers -- New Zealand -- Auckland -- History -- 20th century.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
New Zealand newspapers. (OCoLC)fst01036804
New Zealand -- Auckland. (OCoLC)fst01211373
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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