The Invention of News Author: Andrew Pettigree Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

Introduction
Long before the invention of printing, people were hungry for information. In pre-industrial times, people gathered and shared news through conversation, gossip, celebrations, sermons, and announcements. The printing age gave rise to pamphlets, periodicals, and the earliest newsprint, expanding the news community from the local to the world. This book traces the history of the press in multiple European countries over four centuries from 1400 to 1800, showing the forces that controlled the news, the role of the news in politics, the Reformation, and social events, the entertainment and timeliness of the news, the credibility of reporters, and the changes that occurred when people opened their windows to the world of news.
Today, in an era overwhelmed by information, how do people communicate with each other in this scale of information? Readers may get new thoughts from this book. This book won the 2015 Harvard University Goldsmith Award.
About the Author
*About the Author
Andrew Pettigree is a historian and professor at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of The Book of the Renaissance and The Invention of News: How the World Learned About Itself.
*Translator's Profile
Dong Junqi, a Ph.D. in literature from Renmin University of China and a teacher at the School of Advertising of Communication University of China, is the author of "Forty Years of China's Consumer Market (1979-2019)" and "Research on Customized Advertising Communication: Concepts, Applications and Practices".
Tong Tong is a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University.