Reporting the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: Lionel James's First Wireless Transmission to the Times - Slattery, Peter
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Told for the first time, this is the story of The Times' special correspondent Lionel James, who reported the first months of the Russo-Japanese War from the first ever wireless station used by a war correspondent. Transmitting from a specially chartered ship in the Yellow Sea to a cable station at Weihaiwei on the China coast, James gave The Times and copublisher The New York Times the opportunity to publish next day reports. It was a short-lived venture, however. James was forced to abandon his enterprise as a result of Russian and British Admiralty action, along with worries of reprisals by…mehr

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Told for the first time, this is the story of The Times' special correspondent Lionel James, who reported the first months of the Russo-Japanese War from the first ever wireless station used by a war correspondent. Transmitting from a specially chartered ship in the Yellow Sea to a cable station at Weihaiwei on the China coast, James gave The Times and copublisher The New York Times the opportunity to publish next day reports. It was a short-lived venture, however. James was forced to abandon his enterprise as a result of Russian and British Admiralty action, along with worries of reprisals by the Japanese with whom James had struck a special deal. Fully researched from primary sources, this volume provides valuable new insight into the media's role in war reporting and marks a turning point in media history.
Autorenporträt
Peter Slattery was educated in Dublin and was awarded his PhD from Trinity College on nineteenth-century Irish photographers. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society for his research into the Dublin Photographic Society, 1854-60. In more recent years he has been researching wireless and its development in both Britain and Ireland and has given a number of papers on the subject. He has also contributed to the Dictionary of Irish Biography to be published jointly by Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Society. At present, Dr Slattery teaches history at St Aidan's, Whitehall, Dublin.