This book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947.

Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2009, and is Senior Lecturer in History at Keble College, University of Oxford.

1. Introduction; 2. Conceiving cooperation among American newspapers, 1848-92; 3. Cooperation, competition, and regulation in the United States, 1893-1945; 4. The 'Rationalist Illusion', the Post Office, and the Press, 1868-1913; 5. Private enterprise, public monopoly, and the preservation of cooperation in Britain, 1914-41; 6. Reluctant imperialist? Reuters in the British Empire, 1851-1947; 7. Cartel or free trade: supplying the world's news, 1856-1947; 8. Conclusion.