News and the Human Interest Story

by Helen MacGill Hughes

Book Overview

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878557296
• ISBN13: 9780878557295
• Release Date: December 1980
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"