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Censorship in the Soviet Military Press 1944-1945

The study “Censored: Examining the Standards, Personnel, and Censorship Technology in the Soviet Military Press, 1944–1945” by Alemzhan Arimov and Bereket Karibaev examined the system of military censorship in Soviet military press in 1944 and 1945 – the end stage of the Second World War. Although the Soviet military censorship system was significantly improved in … Continued

Tags: Antonov, censorship, Glavlit, history, military press, New Economic Policy, Second World War, Soviet Union
Published: 13 Apr 2024

English-Language Press in the Ottoman Empire

The study “Excavating the English-Language Press in the Ottoman Empire (1841–1923) Editors, State Actors, Readers” by Stéphanie Prévost from Université de Paris sought to investigate a phenomenon thought to be almost nonexistent – English-language press in the Ottoman State. The previous research on foreign-language press in the Ottoman Empire has focused on French. A total … Continued

Tags: censorship, English-language foreign press, history, Le Progrès d’Orient, Ottoman Empire, Shipping Gazette, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, The British, The Levant Herald, The Levant Times, The Oriental Advertiser
Published: 29 Dec 2023

Editing of reader’s letters in Late 19th-Century Finnish Press resembled was already modern

The study “ Selecting and Editing of Readers’ Letters in the Late 19th-Century Finnish Press” by Satu Sorvali from University of Turku looked at an under researched topic: reader’s letters to newspapers, specifically reader’s letters in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the late 19th century. Finland in 1895 was a bilingual autonomous part of … Continued

Tags: 19th century, editing, Finland, Finnish press, history, letters to the editor, newspapers, reader's letters, selecting
Published: 8 Nov 2023

The roots of investigative journalism lie in the abolitionist press

The study ““Behold the Wicked Abominations That They Do”: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Evidentiary Approach in American Investigative Journalism” by Gerry Lanosga from Indiana University linked the roots of the evidentiary mindset in investigative journalism to abolitionism in the 1830s. In the popular imagination, Nixon’s Watergate scandal is intrinsically linked with the advent of … Continued

Tags: 1830s, abolitionism, abolitionists, evidentiary mindset, history, investigative journalism, investigative reporting, journalistic methods, muckrakers, slavery, the United States, Watergate
Published: 23 Dec 2022