Francis Foster

Famously, the Times of London refuses to be his customer for several years, and he keeps getting scoop after scoop, and eventually they bow and become a customer.

These businesses become quite large.

Reuters in London, the Associated Press forms in the 1840s in the United States.

The Germans, the French, and the Spanish, and the Italians all form their news wires.

But theirs are different.

In the English-speaking world, these are for-profit ventures that are accountable to their customers.

They're doing news.

Part of news is being accountable, letting your audience have a say.

How much do we trust you?

Do we believe you?

Because if we don't believe you, you're not valuable, right?

You're just like a government agency issuing edicts.

It's just not interesting.

Whereas in Germany and France, Spain and Italy, these were government entities more or less from the beginning.

and though they mimicked a lot of the freewheeling style of the english language news wires and they did collect information from around the world and frankly some of them have very good product deutsche welle argent france press but there's still especially the beginning in the in the telegraph era in the latter half of the 19th century those governments had a lot of control over what was presented it wasn't but in the speaking world it was more wide open

Not to say the government didn't censor troop movements and a handful of other things, but for the most part, it was pretty freewheeling.

It was pretty wide open.

All that's great.

By the end of the 19th century, we're gathering news from all over the world.

We're reporting it quickly.