"Poisoned at the Source"? Telegraphic News Services and Big Business in the Nineteenth Century

From: Business History Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Nalbach, Alex | Copyright information

Nineteenth-century newspapers, exchanges, and governments relied heavily for their daily information upon an alliance of four international telegraph services: Havas (Paris), Reuters (London), Wolff's (Berlin), and the Associated Press (New York). The connections of the wire services to financial and official circles bred suspicions that they offered privileged information and suppressed or inserted reports on behalf of special interests. Corporate and official records reveal the wire service...

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