Object Lesson: Newspaper: by Maggie Messitt, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 184 pp.
The article focuses on *Object Lesson: Newspaper*, a book by journalist Maggie Messitt that explores the history and significance of newspapers as physical objects in the United States and South Africa. Through 120 historical vignettes, the book traces the development of newspapers from colonial tim...
| Publicado en: | American Journalism Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 198 - 200 |
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| Formato: | Book Review |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Spring2026
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