Reporter-Streifzuge: Metropolitane Nachrichtenkultur Und Die Wahrnehmung Der Welt 1870-1918

English summary: An insightful comparative study of western newspaper reporting, this volume offers a thorough, yet concise history of the emergence of a New Literary Journalism in the USA and Western Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Highlighting the multiplicity of transatlantic transfers in [...]
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English summary: An insightful comparative study of western newspaper reporting, this volume offers a thorough, yet concise history of the emergence of a New Literary Journalism in the USA and Western Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Highlighting the multiplicity of transatlantic transfers in the field of a specific autoreflexive reporting, it identifies the intersections of sensationalism and authenticity in newspaper making. Based on detailed case studies, Michael Homberg sheds light on the intrinsic logic of media events as well as the personal networks and institutional structures of newsmaking by stressing the working conditions of the reporter's profession within the arising newspaper industry around 1900. Through an interdisciplinary approach that reconstructs the specific forms, styles and genres of this New Journalism, he reveals the importance of news artefacts for the production of metropolitan identities and representational links of local and global cultures within the early global cities New York, Berlin, Paris and London. German description: Der Band analysiert die Entstehung eines neuen literarischen Journalismus, der sich - ausgehend von den Vereinigten Staaten - im Europa der Jahrhundertwende etablieren konnte. Am Beispiel der Reportage werden dabei die Wechselwirkungen zwischen wissenschaftlichen, kunstlerischen und politischen Weltwahrnehmungen untersucht. In dieser Phase der Globalisierung schwang sich der Reporter zum privilegierten Beobachter der Verwandlung der Welt auf. Dessen Streifzuge zwischen Flanerie und undercover-Exploration stellen das hervorstechende Merkmal einer Epoche dar, in der die Massenmedien beginnen, Anlass und Gegenstand ihrer Berichterstattung in eigener Regie zu kreieren.