Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editor's Introduction vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. The Emergence of the News Wire Services
6. 1. "The News Newer": Discovering Timeliness in News 11
7. 2. "Time Past to Time Present": Linking the Telegraph and the Press 30
8. 3. "A Better-Organized System": Establishing the New York Associated Press 47
9. Part Two. Toward a Monopoly of Telegraphic News
10. 4. "The Advantage of Time": Race for the Foreign News 71
11. 5. "A Monstrous Monopoly Is Created": The New York Associated Press Goes National 96
12. 6. "To Liberate the Newspaper Press": The New York Associated Press at War 118
13. Part Three. The News-Telegraph Monopoly at Work
14. 7. "A Double-Headed Monopoly": The Associated Press and Western Union in Symbiosis 143
15. 8. "Talking to All America": Power and Politics of the News-Telegraph Monopoly 169
16. Conclusion 189
17. Selected Primary Sources 199
18. Notes 207
19. Acknowledgments 293
20. Index 295
21. Harvard Studies in Business History 303