JOEL WIENER is Emeritus Professor of History at City University of New York, USA MARK HAMPTON is Associate Professor of History at Lingnan University, Hong Kong

• Introduction PART I: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Sensational War Reporting and the Quality Press in Late Victorian Britain and America; D.Fulton Embracing Sporting News in England and America: Nineteenth-Century Cricket and Baseball News; M.McIntire Get the News! Get the News! Speed in Transatlantic Journalism, 1830-1914; J.H. Wiener PART II: ANGLO-AMERICAN PERSONALITIES Matt Morgan and Trans-Atlantic Illustrated Journalism, 1850-1890; C.Kent James Bryce and the Promise of the American Press, 1888-1921; J.D. Startt Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Promoting the Anglo-American Alliance in Wartime, 1939-1943; F.M. Leventhal PART III: ANGLO-AMERICAN IDENTITIES The London Press and the American Civil War; M.de Nie World War I, the American Press, and the Construction of Anglo-American Identity; J.Bennett and M.Hampton Red on the Map: Empire and Americanization at the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1942 -1950; T.Hajkowski PART IV: AMERICAN IZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS? Keeping the news British: the BBC, British United Press and Reuters in the 1930s; S.Nicholas Americanization and its Limits: United Artists in the British Market in the 1930s and 1940s; P.Miskell 'Typically anti-American'? The Labour Movement, America and Broadcasting in Britain, from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949-62; T.O'Malley Transatlantic Invasions or Common Culture? Modes of Cultural and Economic Exchange between the American and British Advertising Industries, 1951-1989; S.Schwarzkopf From High Culture to Hip Culture: Transforming the BBC Into BBC America; C.Becker