Newspaper Building Design and Journalism Cultures in Australia and the UK: 1855–2010

Carole O’Reilly is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology, University of Salford, UK. Josie Vine is a Senior Lecturer in the Journalism Program at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

• Chapter 1 – Situating the Newspaper Newsroom Chapter 2 – The Emerging Newsroom: The British Newspaper Building in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 3: Melbourne Newsrooms in the 20th century Chapter 4: Murdoch and MythChapter 5 - Twentieth Century Newspaper Buildings in the UK: National Newspapers Chapter 6 – The Provincial Newsroom: British provincial newspaper building design in the twentieth century Chapter 7 – The Newsroom Under Threat? British and Australian Newspaper Buildings in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 8 – Conclusion: Main Themes and Further Research

'In this insightful work, O’Reilly and Vine expertly trace the role of newspaper buildings as key communicators of, monuments to, and vehicles for journalism’s professional culture and socio-political impact. An important and timely contribution to the ongoing "spatial turn" in journalism studies.'E. James West is a Lecturer in US History at the University of York, UK. 'Vine and O'Reilly's book tells the vital 'origin story' of metropolitan newsroom spaces and their work cultures in the UK and Australia. Through a savvy examination of their architecture, semiotics, cultural meaning and history, it provides new understandings into the cultural function of newsrooms even as those spaces transform in the twenty-first century.'Will Mari, assistant professor, Louisiana State University, USA