Becoming the Second City: Chicago's Mass News Media, 1833-1898
Department
Communication
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
Becoming the Second City examines the development of Chicago's press and analyzes coverage of key events in its history to call attention to the media's impact in shaping the city's cultural and historical landscape. In concise, extensively documented prose, Richard Junger illustrates how nineteenth-century newspapers acted as accelerants that boosted the growth of Chicago in its early history by continually making and remaking the city's public image as the nation's populous "Second City." Highlighting the newspaper industry's involvement in the business and social life of Chicago, Junger casts newspaper editors and reporters as critical intermediaries between the elite and the larger public and revisits key events and issues including the Haymarket Square bombing, the 1871 fire, the Pullman Strike, and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. A former news reporter, Richard Junger is an associate professor of communication and English at Western Michigan University and the author of The Journalist as Reformer: Henry Demarest Lloyd and Wealth Against Commonwealth.
Call number in WMU's library
PN4899.C37 J86 2010 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
978-0252077852
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
City
Urbana
Keywords
journalism, Illinois, Chicago, history, 19th century
Disciplines
Critical and Cultural Studies | Journalism Studies | Mass Communication
Recommended Citation
Junger, Richard, "Becoming the Second City: Chicago's Mass News Media, 1833-1898" (2010). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 105.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/105