Communicating in Canada's Past

Gene Allen is a professor in the School of Journalism and the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. A professional journalist for 20 years at the Globe and Mail and the CBC, he was director of research and a senior producer for the award-winning documentary series Canada: A People’s History and editor of its companion book. Daniel J. Robinson is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Media History as Concept and Practice Gene Allen and Daniel J. RobinsonPart I: New Research in Canadian Media HistoryThe Catholic Press: A Challenge ot the 'Journalism of Information' Paradigm Dominique MarquisOld Media, New Media and Competition: Canadian Press and the Emergence of Radio News Gene AllanBritishness, the BBC and the Birth of Canadian Public Broadcasting, 1928-1936 Simon J. PotterThe Luxury of Moderate Use': Seagram and Moderation Advertising Daniel J. Robinson Evelyn Dick, Soap Star: Newspaper Coverage of the Torso Murder Case Alison JacquesVariety Show as National Identity: CBC Television and Dominion Day Celebrations, 1958-1980 Matthew HaydayPolitics? Fear Not!: The Rise of the Average Superhero in the Visual Rhetoric of Bill Davis' 1971 Election Pamphlet James Cairns Part II: Historiography and Media HistoryWhence and Whither: The Historiography of Canadian Broadcasting Mary VipondRecent Trends in Research on the History of the Press in Quebec: Towads a Cultural History Fernande RoyEncounters with Theory Paul Rutherford