It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read News and the Human Interest Story by Helen MacGill Hughes
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In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of illiterate audiences to the present. She explains how these interests ultimately were combined with practical economic and political information to...
News and the Human Interest Story by Helen MacGill Hughes is 348 pages long, and a total of 89,784 words.
This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 10 minutes to read News and the Human Interest Story aloud.
News and the Human Interest Story is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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