1st Edition
Journalists and Knowledge Practices Histories of Observing the Everyday in the Newspaper Age
Part I
1. "I Was There Today": Fake Eyewitnessing and Journalistic Authority, from Fontane to Relotius
Petra McGillen
2. "Have We La Grippe?": A Washington Case Study of Reporting the "Russian Influenza" (1889–1890)
E. Thomas Ewing
3. Why Marmaduke Mizzle and the Good Ship Wabble Fooled No One: Fake News and Metajournalistic Discourse in the Era of Journalistic Professionalization
Andie Tucher
Part II
4. What it Means to Be a Journalist: Constructing the Journalistic Persona at the End of the Weimar Republic
Hansjakob Ziemer
5. Secret Press Agents: When Journalists, Propagandists, and Spies Seemed Indistinguishable
Heidi Tworek
Part III Technologies
6. Shortness and Speed in Journalism: The Electric Telegram and the Circulation of Knowledge in Germany and France in 1860
Lisa Bolz
7. Fabricating Authentic Pictures: Press Photography as a Transnational Mode of Observation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Malte Zierenberg
8. Inattentive Subjects: The Emergence of a Photojournalistic Norm
Annie Rudd
Part IV Knowledge Transfers
9. "Like a Modern Harun al Raschid": Herman Heijermans’s 1910 Reports on the Herzberge Mental Asylum in Berlin
Eric J. Engstrom
10. A Peasant among Peasants: Maurice Hindus’s Transnational Revolutionary Journalism
Elena Matveeva
11. Pop or Popularization? The Boundaries between Social Science and Journalism
Susanne Schmidt
Biography
Hansjakob Ziemer received his PhD in Modern History from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2007, having also studied at Stanford and Oxford. He is senior research scholar and head of cooperation and communication at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
