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Alan Sharp
Chief Inspector
Username: Ash
Post Number: 614
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 12:42 pm: |       |
Hi All
I am trying to track down the names of the London Correspondents of various Irish newspapers. I have the addresses of the London offices, and wondered if anyone knows if there is any kind of trade directory or other document which might give the names of folk who worked there.
I have inquired at the Irish Times and Cork Examiner but they do not keep records. Most of the other newspapers of the time are no longer in operation so I wouldn't know where to inquire.
The other possibility I thought of was that most of these offices would have had their own private telegraph equipment and I was wondering if records of the registered operators of the telegraph might be kept somewhere.
Grateful for any help anyone might be able to give.
Cheers
Alan |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2672
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 5:27 pm: | |
Hi Alan
I don't know whether you want Ripper journalists or journalists in general. Anyway, here's a couple :
"THE TIMES" JULY 25 1911
JUNE 10 1933
Robert |
John Savage
Inspector
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 207
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:22 pm: | |
Hi Alan,
Perhaps the best place to try would be the British Newspaper Library at Colindale
Best Regards
John Savage |
David O'Flaherty
Inspector
Username: Oberlin
Post Number: 343
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 8:37 pm: | |
Incidentally, I just read that the British Museum intends to put a searchable database of 19th century newspaper articles (the stuff that's at Colindale) online within the next year and a half or so.
Alan, if it's helpful, here's a link to the the British Newspaper Library's website. Maybe a contact there can give you some advice, like John suggests.
(Message edited by oberlin on July 04, 2004) |
Alan Sharp
Chief Inspector
Username: Ash
Post Number: 618
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 3:45 pm: | |
Cheers all.
I'm actually looking specifically for the names of the people who wrote the "London Correspondence" columns for the Irish Times, Freeman's Journal, Cork Examiner and Belfast Morning News, and the "London Letter" column for the Dublin Evening Mail during the time of the murders.
I will give Colindale a try but it doesn't sound like something they would have a record of.
Thanks anyway.
"Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." |
Natalie Severn
Chief Inspector
Username: Severn
Post Number: 938
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 4:12 pm: | |
Hi Alan,it sounds as if they had free lance journalists providing several newspapers with copy.My guess would be that one or two of the papers would use the journalists "byline",so by checking through similar stories of the week in question you may be able to work out the name of the source.As regards Dublin at that time I think the same would apply although during the 70"s a "stringer" would be paid for providing news to a journalist appointed to cover developments in say Northern Ireland and paid in much the same way as free lance reporters.
Hope this is of some help
Natalie |
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