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Adrian Bingham and Martin Conboy combine their customary analytical rigor with an engaging style in order to produce the first wide-ranging study of the contents of mass-circulation newspapers from Northcliffe to Murdoch. Authoritative and accessible, 'Tabloid Century' is an ideal guide for anyone wanting to learn about the history of the twentieth-century popular press. (Mark Hampton, Lingnan University, author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (2004), co-editor of Media History)

Adrian Bingham and Martin Conboy combine their customary analytical rigor with an engaging style in order to produce the first wide-ranging study of the contents of mass-circulation newspapers from Northcliffe to Murdoch. Authoritative and accessible, 'Tabloid Century' is an ideal guide for anyone wanting to learn about the history of the twentieth-century popular press. (Mark Hampton, Lingnan University, author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (2004), co-editor of Media History) Das Buch von Bingham und Conboy ist gut geschrieben und [...] lesenswert. Man erfahrt daraus vieles uber die Rolle der britischen Tabloid-Presse im 20. Jahrhundert und versteht manches besser, woruber man sich ausserhalb des Landes nicht selten wundert. (Jurgen Wilke, H-Soz-Kult 12/2015)

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Adrian Bingham is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. He studied for his D.Phil at the University of Oxford, and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London, before moving to the Department of History at Sheffield in 2006. Martin Conboy is Professor of Journalism History at the University of Sheffield. He studied for his PhD at the Institute of Education, University of London. He lectured in the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany for five years before moving back to Britain to develop critical linguistic and historical approaches to journalism studies. He joined the Department of Journalism Studies at Sheffield in 2005.

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