{"id":11209,"date":"2015-05-22T17:26:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:26:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:26:19","slug":"how-early-newspapers-were-like-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2015\/05\/22\/how-early-newspapers-were-like-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"How early newspapers were like the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a common practice for 19th-century newspapers to republish poems, fiction excerpts, and even lists of facts that were originally published elsewhere. Editors would subscribe to many newspapers and would cut out things they thought were interesting, relevant, or fit a space on the page that they needed to fill and then republish them in their own papers, Cordell explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany 19th-century newspapers are comprised primarily of content from other newspapers,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were more aggregators than producers of original content. And often they were created by very small staffs, and scholars such as Ellen Gruber Garvey have shown that this aggregation is what allowed newspapers to spread as rapidly as they did in the 19th century, because you didn\u2019t have to produce the whole thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2015\/05\/listicles-aggregation-and-content-gone-viral-how-1800s-newspapers-prefigured-todays-internet\/\">Listicles, aggregation, and content gone viral: How 1800s newspapers prefigured today\u2019s Internet \u00bb Nieman Journalism Lab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early newspapers were very much like Internet aggregators and the social web &#8212; filled with content from other papers, much of it poorly sourced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}