Old v. New Journalism and the Public Sphere; or, Habermas Encounters Dallas and Stead

Law, Graham; Sterenberg, Matthew

doi:10.16995/ntn.657

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“…The British publishing market was very crowded long before that, and some publications were moved to offer prizes of enormous value, such as Tit-Bits' competition in 1883 in which the first prize was a house. 5 Six years later, Tit-Bits' greatest rival, Answers, ran a competition to win £1 a week for the rest of the winner's life (the competition involved entrants guessing the amount of gold in the Bank of England), apparently attracting 700,000 entrants. 6 In January 1901, an Irish magazine editorial noted that the current issue of Tit-Bits was its 1000th, and added, 'Sir George Newnes is modest over his gigantic success, the pioneer of many other similar successes.…”

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This article assesses the extensive 'reader competitions' run in popular magazines and story papers of the early twentieth century. Using examples from Irish story papers, it examines the appeal of these competitions to both the publishers and the readers. For readers, competitions offered an opportunity to display skills which combined the results of universal education with the more playful knowledge that was part of popular parlour games and other leisure activities of the time. They also offered readers an opportunity to 'write back' to the mass media, with indications of an extremely high level of interactivity between readers and editors, including reader suggestions for competition ideas, and disputes regarding the rules and judging of contests. The article goes on to argue that these competitions were themselves significant examples of mass media structures of the time, relying as they did on the specific forms of print culture and upon mechanisms of industrial time and communication processes.

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Section: Story Competitionsmentioning

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Old v. New Journalism and the Public Sphere; or, Habermas Encounters Dallas and Stead

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