The Savior of the Nation? Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period

Tworek, Heidi

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“…After expressing her dissatisfaction with educational radio in 1934, Waller wrote two books in the 1940s that encouraged both an expansive interpretation of public service programming and collaboration between educators and commercial radio professionals. As Tworek (2015) writes, "for Waller, institutional arrangements necessarily led to particular ideas of the audience and programming" (p. 465). As an employee of NBC, Waller was a product and proponent of the commercial radio industry, and thus the network's profit-minded imperative remained the primary factor that shaped her public discussions of NBC listeners' wants and needs.…”

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“A certain stigma” of educational radio: Judith Waller and “public service” broadcasting

Keeler

2017

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“A certain stigma” of educational radio: Judith Waller and “public service” broadcasting

Keeler

2017

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals

Tworek¹

2015

Bus. Hist. Rev.

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This article compares two media multinationals that supplied different genres of news, political and economic. Most media companies provided both genres, and these categories often overlapped. Still, investigating two firms founded in twentieth-century Germany shows how product differentiation affects the organization, geographical orientation, and business models of multinationals. While political news had the greatest impact when it was free and ubiquitous, economic news was most effective when it was expensive and exclusive.

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The Death of News? The Problem of Paper in the Weimar Republic

Tworek

2017

Cent Eur Hist

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In the early 1920s, the press faced an existential challenge. Publishers proclaimed the death of news, not because nothing was happening, but because there was insufficient paper to print newspapers. While historians of the early modern period have long investigated material constraints on the spread of information, the problem of paper in Weimar Germany shows that the economics and politics of supply chains continued to shape cultural production in the twentieth century as well. Rationing during World War I subsequently became a crisis in the 1920s, when paper shortages, which had started as an issue of prices and supply chains, ballooned into a discussion about the role of the press in political and economic life, about the relationship between the federal states and the central government, and about the responsibility of a democratic government to ensure an independent press. Paper became a litmus test for the relationship between politicians and the press. The failure to resolve the crisis not only undermined the trust of publishers in Weimar institutions, but, this article argues, also enabled greater control by right-wing media empires. The public sphere, it turned out, had a very material basis.

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The Savior of the Nation? Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

“A certain stigma” of educational radio: Judith Waller and “public service” broadcasting

“A certain stigma” of educational radio: Judith Waller and “public service” broadcasting

Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals

The Death of News? The Problem of Paper in the Weimar Republic

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