| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms. By W. Joseph Campbell. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xxii, 317 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-97702-9. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-415-97703-6.)

W. Joseph Campbell's The Year That Defined American Journalism investigates the origins of the modern American press by detailing a single transformative year: 1897. In that fateful year, Campbell tells us, three rival models of journalism were founded in New York City, and one of them—the authoritative, impartial, factual discourse of the New York Times—triumphed to become the defining ideal of twentieth-century journalism. Such a single-year case study, with its sharply delimited temporal focus, can intensively examine the contending forms of journalism against a richly drawn social tapestry.

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