JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marine Vhf Radio, Marilyn Bell, William Southam

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Christopher Dornan

Document Summary

Developments in journalism in canada came later than in the us. Rise of a mass circulation press was a result of industrialization, shifts from a society that is agrarian and mercantile to a society that is focused on manufacturing goods. Big cities need a new way to circulate information, advertisement, news, etc. Steam powered rotary presses allow for mass circulation. In canada, came later than in the us. Canada has newspapers but they tend to be small, weekly rather than daily, political rather than partisan. Ottawa citizen founded in 1845, 22 years before confederation, bytown packet, weekly, only 4 pages long, didn"t become a daily until 1865. Mid 1840"s, us has big newspapers already, but in canada they are still political, catering to business people. Reason is that canada didn"t industrialize at the same time as the united states. Industry never became the backbone of the country.