Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Invention of News
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
- Author
- Andrew Pettegree
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 453
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: How news became a product in the four centuries before newspapers — and how people decided what to believe before there were institutions to vouch for it.
Where I saw it: brian flynn (@Flynnjamm) on X, March 4, 2026, reading it for “parallels to study with abundant software creation.”
Connections
- Printing Press — the enabling technology.
- Journalism — the institution before it was an institution.
- Republic of Letters
- Language of Discourse — how credibility got assigned when anyone could print.