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Before there was an “internet,” before the term “multimedia” was created or “social media” was imagined, there were ways that news traveled instantaneously. During the American Civil War, the telegraph brought news to readers the day it happened. A few decades later, “wire” machines clicked and clacked global headlines in real time.
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Dunham, R.S. (2020). The Power of Multimedia. In: Multimedia Reporting. Tsinghua Global Business Journalism Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6163-0_1
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