Abstract
The Crimean War produced first generally acknowledged correspondent: The Times 's William Howard Russell. But perhaps more importantly, also changed way journalism itself functioned during wartime and way readers participated in its reportage. Newspapers like The Times provided a public forum for expression of private experiences of war—a forum in which public and private voices mixed, as official despatches were printed alongside personal letters from soldiers at front. In addition, institutionally backed editorials and articles from papers' Own Correspondents surrounded an unprecedented barrage of letters to editor from civilians weighing in on Crimean campaign. These unofficial contributions suggest that world fashioned by mass media during what was dubbed the people's war functioned as a genuine public sphere.
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