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Breaking the News

The British Library Exhibition Book


  • British Library
  • Expo: Spring 2022, British Library London
  • by Jackie Harrison & Luke McKerman
From the first newspaper publication just over 400 years ago to today’s 24-hour coverage of events, fast-evolving technologies and attitudes have shaped not only how we make news but, more crucially, how we consume it. But what makes an event ‘news’? Are we justified in our scepticism about shocking images and inflammatory headlines? Or is the news a vital tool, enabling worldwide activism movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and enforcing necessary scrutiny of the ethics of those in power?

ISBN 9780712354417 | E | HB
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Publisher British Library
ISBN 9780712354417
Author(s) Jackie Harrison & Luke McKerman
Publication date April 2022
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Illustrations 100 col.ill.
Pages 240
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition British Library London
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From the first newspaper publication just over 400 years ago to today’s 24-hour coverage of events, fast-evolving technologies and attitudes have shaped not only how we make news but, more crucially, how we consume it. But what makes an event ‘news’? Are we justified in our scepticism about shocking images and inflammatory headlines? Or is the news a vital tool, enabling worldwide activism movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and enforcing necessary scrutiny of the ethics of those in power? Accompanying a major exhibition at the British Library, Breaking the News asks prescient questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a grisly seventeenth-century murder, Covid-19 public information campaigns, the NSA leak by Edward Snowden and the media’s treatment of celebrities from Princess Diana to Jade Goody. Short profiles also highlight influential news breakers through history, including writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, photojournalist Mohamed Amin and environmental rights activist Greta Thunberg.