Special Correspondence and the Newspaper Press in Victorian Print Culture, 1850–1886 by Catherine Waters

Author:Catherine Waters
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030038618
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

No longer a word-painter transporting readers to the scene described, the special correspondent is identified by Forbes as a new media technology—an efficient vehicle for delivering intelligence at high speed.

If the special correspondents reporting from the headquarters of the Crown Princes of Prussia and Saxony were competing to be first with the news, those caught inside Paris when it was besieged by the Prussians had a more fundamental difficulty to contend with in getting their reports out. The last mail train left Paris on 18 September, and with the telegraph lines cut, a ‘balloon post’ was eventually organised by Félix Nadar , the famous portrait and panoramic photographer , to communicate with the rest of France and the outside world.91 Correspondents now had a method of despatching their letters, albeit a risky one. The special correspondent of the Illustrated London News explained in a letter dated 20 September:I write this note under great doubt of its reaching you. You are of course aware that we are shut in and are reduced to balloon communication. … If this reaches you it will apprise you that I sent off on Monday morning by a private balloon about half a dozen sketches and a complete diary of all that has transpired in Paris during the past fortnight – that is to say, since the commencement of the siege, and which I beg you to publish intact. I have arranged to send all sketches in triplicate, in the hope that one out of the three will come to hand.92

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