Abstract
The Cambridge Daily News was founded in 1888, a volatile time for the provincial press when the middle-class mass market for newspapers was still to be fully realised. This article takes the Cambridge Daily News's coverage of one sensational Town versus Gown case in 1891 as a starting point for examining how this local newspaper negotiated and sustained its own journey from pre-modern to modern journalism. It highlights reportage which attempted to appeal to the town's two distinct constituencies: on one hand, the ancient university, and on the other, the bourgeois, rural neighbourhood which shared its territory. It questions whether it was possible for the newspaper to represent accurately such a dual readership and at the same time respond to concerns emanating from mutually exclusive hegemonic and cultural interests. Finally, it examines the extent to which this local dispute acted as a prompt for the newspaper to adopt a “New Journalism” that would ensure its passage into the 20th century and beyond.
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