Terhi Rantanen is Professor and Director of the Master's Proframme in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan.

• List of Figures and Tables viiiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: When News Was New x1 Temporalization: How News Became New 12 Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think 193 Globalization: When News Became Global 424 Commodifi cation: How To Sell News 585 Localization: Places in News 766 Nationalization: News and the Nation-states 927 Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday 112Bibliography 133Index 146

"A well structured analysis of journalism and what actually entails news, this is both an educational and thought provoking exploration into the purity of news. (M/C Reviews, March 2010) "Terhi Rantanen's When News Was New is much more than a narrative of journalism history. This is an investigation into the very nature of journalism as it changes through the centuries." (Polis Journalism and Society, April 2009)

Terhi Rantanen is Professor and Director of the Master's Proframme in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan.

• List of Figures and Tables viiiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: When News Was New x1 Temporalization: How News Became New 12 Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think 193 Globalization: When News Became Global 424 Commodifi cation: How To Sell News 585 Localization: Places in News 766 Nationalization: News and the Nation-states 927 Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday 112Bibliography 133Index 146

"A well structured analysis of journalism and what actually entails news, this is both an educational and thought provoking exploration into the purity of news. (M/C Reviews, March 2010) "Terhi Rantanen's When News Was New is much more than a narrative of journalism history. This is an investigation into the very nature of journalism as it changes through the centuries." (Polis Journalism and Society, April 2009)

Terhi Rantanen is Professor and Director of the Master's Proframme in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on global news and is the author of six books and more than fifty chapters and articles published in the UK, the USA, Austria, Finland, Russia, Sweden and Taiwan.

• List of Figures and Tables viiiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: When News Was New x1 Temporalization: How News Became New 12 Cosmopolitanization: An Older Phenomenon Than We Think 193 Globalization: When News Became Global 424 Commodifi cation: How To Sell News 585 Localization: Places in News 766 Nationalization: News and the Nation-states 927 Epilogue: Today Was Yesterday 112Bibliography 133Index 146

"A well structured analysis of journalism and what actually entails news, this is both an educational and thought provoking exploration into the purity of news. (M/C Reviews, March 2010) "Terhi Rantanen's When News Was New is much more than a narrative of journalism history. This is an investigation into the very nature of journalism as it changes through the centuries." (Polis Journalism and Society, April 2009)