The Anglo-American press and the sensationalization of the Arctic, 1855-1910
Presents systematic investigation of role of press in Arctic exploration, finding that newspapers and their proprietors were much more influential in increasing knowledge about and interest in the far north than traditionally acknowledged. Focuses particularly on role of James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of New York Herald.
Riffenburgh, Beau
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The Anglo-American press and the sensationalization of the Arctic, 1855-1910. Presents systematic investigation of role of press in Arctic exploration, finding that newspapers and their proprietors were much more influential in increasing knowledge about and interest in the far north than traditionally acknowledged. Focuses particularly on role of James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of New York Herald.
anglo_american press arctic systematic_investigation role press arctic exploration find newspaper proprietor much influential increase_knowledge interest far north traditionally acknowledge particularly role james proprietor new york herald