- Title:
- The Ottawa Valley Journal and The Modern Countryside: A City-Country Newspaper and The New Journalism in Eastern Ontario, 1887 to 1925
- Creator:
- Smith, Dorothy-Jane
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Degree Awarded:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Subjects:
- Canadian History Journalism
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada Ottawa
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- Studies of the press as a modernizing agent in the first two decades of the twentieth century usually look at the mass media of the city dailies. I argue that the country edition of an Ottawa daily, the rural Journal, equally was a modernizing agent. It involved itself in the definition of expert knowledge at the agricultural fair, in demonstrating professional road-building to rural residents, and in mobilizing producers against the middlemen and "poor business practices" of the global cheese market. These stories give insight into how a city-run newspaper dressed itself in rural clothing while presenting a model of modernity.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Smith, Dorothy-Jane. 2018. "The Ottawa Valley Journal and The Modern Countryside: A City-Country Newspaper and The New Journalism in Eastern Ontario, 1887 to 1925", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_31.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.