Open Access"Freshest advices"?: the currency of London news in Dublin City newspapers, 1790 - 1801
Author(s) -
Sarah Catherine McDonald
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
library and information research/library and information research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2752-7336
pISSN - 1756-1086
DOI - 10.29173/lirg251
Subject(s) - newspaper , irish , currency , port (circuit theory) , transmission (telecommunications) , media studies , advertising , history , sociology , telecommunications , computer science , business , engineering , economics , linguistics , philosophy , electrical engineering , monetary economics
This paper summarises a MLIS dissertation which studied the currency of news, sourced from London newspapers and re-printed in Dublin City newspapers, during the final decade of the eighteenth century. London was a vital communications network hub for the dissemination of information, consisting of British and Foreign Intelligence, to Irish port cities such as Dublin. Using the resources of recently digitised London and Dublin newspaper series, it was possible to build a model which accurately represents the transmission time for London 'News' into Dublin editorial offices. The model provides a frequency distribution from which the minimum, maximum and average transmission times are established. It is argued that the same method can reliably be applied to determine the transmission time for news from the main European cities to London and Dublin.