Newspaper Building Design and Journalism Cultures in Australia and the UK: 1855 [Paperback]

Chapter 1  Situating the Newspaper Newsroom

Chapter 2  The Emerging Newsroom: The British Newspaper Building in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3: Melbourne Newsrooms in the 20th century

Chapter 4: Murdoch and Myth

Chapter 5 - Twentieth Century Newspaper Buildings in the UK: National Newspapers

Chapter 6  The Provincial Newsroom: British provincial newspaper building design in the twentieth century

Chapter 7  The Newsroom Under Threat? British and Australian Newspaper Buildings in the Twenty-first Century

Chapter 8  Conclusion: Main Themes and Further Research

This book examines the micro-cultural ideologies of the journalism profession in Britain and Australia by focusing on the design, execution and development of newspaper building architecture.

'In this insightful work, OReilly and Vine expertly trace the role of newspaper buildings as key communicators of, monuments to, and vehicles for journalisms professional culture and socio-political impact. An important and timely contribution to the ongoing spatial turn in journalism studies.'

E. James West is a Lecturer in US History at the University of York, UK.

'Vine and O'Reilly's book tells the vital 'origin story' of metropolitan newsroom spaces and their work cultures in the UK and Australia. Through a savvy examination of their architecture, semiotics, cultural meaning and history, it provides new understandings into the cultural function of newsrooms even as those spaces transform in the twenty-first century.'

Will Mari, assistant professor, Louisiana State University, USA