Why did Gutenberg’s press transform journalism and how is it similar to recent technological transformations? Why was a stamp duty imposed upon newspapers in the 19th century? In what ways is Julian Assange like John Wilkes? Map the ways news has been a commodity in previous centuries. What does this mean for notions of a free press and the Fourth Estate? Is the ‘golden Age’ of Australian journalism a nostalgic interpretation of history by old journalists, or was something special happening in journalism at this time?
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