This collection book brings together leading scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media buildings have provided their producers and consumers with a definable shape and served as key nodes in the urban geography of communications. At the same time, the changing form and function of media buildings has both reflected and reified transformations in modern journalism and mass communication.
Introduction.- Ch 1 From Dingy and Incommodious to Quite Palatial?
The Local and Regional Newspapers Presence in the English Townscape, c. 1850
- 2015.- Ch 2 The Newsroom as a State of Mind: Place, Emotions and Journalism
Cultures in Britain.- Ch 3 In the Face of Fire and Dynamite: Racial Violence
and Black Press Buildings during the Nadir.- Ch 4 Above the Street or in
the Field? Newsroom Space and Serendipity in Martinique.- Ch 5 Architectures
of the Air: Radio Buildings and the Urban Politics of Media Production in
Germany, 1930-1938.- Ch 6- Up and Out: Mediality and Verticality at Torontos
CN Tower.- Ch 7 With a Whoosh and a Bang: Pneumatic Tubes and the American
Newsroom, 1910-1960.- Ch 8 The Heart of a Newsroom: The Relevancy of the News
Library Then and Now for News Organizations.- Ch 9 Desk Reject? How
Computational Journalists Reconceptualized Newsroom Office Space for the
Data Age.- Ch 10 Media Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, and the Emergence of
Convergence Newsrooms in Nepal.- Ch 11 Journalists and Objects of Journalism
Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study in Three
Indonesian Newsrooms.
Will Mari is Associate Professor of media history and media law at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, USA.
Carole OReilly is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. Her work centres on cities, buildings and the urban environment.
E. James West is Lecturer in Arts and Sciences at University College London and co-Director of the Black Press Research Collective, based at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
