Media history

An illustration from Jules Verne's short story La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2889 (1910).

English: Media history is (in a general sense) the historical development of the media (especially mass media). Strictly speaking, the term refers to the study of the past of the media.

Deutsch: Mediengeschichte bezeichnet (im allgemeinen Sinn) die historische Entwicklung der Kommunikationsmittel, insbesondere der Massenmedien (Presse, Hörfunk und Fernsehen). Im engeren Sinne bezeichnet der Begriff die Erforschung der Mediengeschichte.

General

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  Political cartoon: "Lincoln spins the news" (1862)

Newspapers & Magazines

Main categories: Newspapers and Magazines

Front pages

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  Relation aller Fürnemmen ..., Straßburg (1609)
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  The Boston News-Letter (1704)
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  The Boston Gazette, Boston (1756)
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  The Times-Democrat, New Orleans (1892)

Editors & publishers

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  Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793)
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  Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911)
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  William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951)
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  Rudolf Augstein (1923–2002)

Electrical telegraph

Main category: Telegraphy

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  Phelps' Electro-motor Printing Telegraph, circa 1884.
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  "The Telegraph" (March & Two-Step), sheet music cover, 1895.
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  1948 telegram, Alexandria, Egypt.

Film

Main categories: History of film and History of cinema

• The second film ever made: Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888).
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  Le Spectre rouge (1907), a silent film directed by Segundo de Chomón.
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  An engineer demonstrating Vitaphone sound film system (1926).

Radio

Main category: History of radio

1920s

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  Radioempfang im Zentralafrika (1924)
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  Kleinkind mit Puppe und Radioapparat (1924)

1930s

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  Radio concert for the unemployed in Hyde Park, London 1931

Television

Main category: History of television

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  Fernsehbild auf der Nipkowscheibe. (Patent from 1884)
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  Radio News, Vol. 10, No. 3 (September 1928).

Internet

Main category: Internet history

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  Symbolic representation of the Arpanet (1974)
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  Robert Cailliau, Belgian informatics engineer