![]() | The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth Century traces the major transformation of newspapers from a politically based press to a commercially based press in the nineteenth century. Gerald J. Baldasty argues that broad changes in American society, the national economy, and the newspaper industry brought about this dramatic shift. Gerald J. Baldasty is associate professor of communications at the University of Washington in Seattle. |
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