As early as the late eighteenth century, there were English-language periodicals published from Paris. But it was only at the end of the nineteenth century, when well-capitalised American periodicals began to be launched from the city, that a transnational English-language press in the city began to develop into a distinctive media category. This essay examines the activities surrounding these periodicals at the time, following Bruno Latour’s sociology of action, which holds that we can learn about social actors and cultural productions by following their activities and their controversies. The intense journalistic activities of these periodicals during this period left many traces, revealing a little-known media history of start-ups and experiments, innovation and failure, and association and rivalry, as well as group making and community building. These activities also capture a particular moment in the history of the transnational press in Paris when a rather undefined type of journalism and public became something more both within the city and throughout Europe. To examine how these periodicals were referring to each other, establishing journalistic practices, developing infrastructure, and chronicling their own histories is to witness how they were in the process of constituting themselves as a distinctive transnational media formation. By following journalism in action, we can uncover this transnational media history in the making.

早在十八世纪后期，就有来自巴黎的英文期刊出版。但直到 19 世纪末，资本雄厚的美国期刊开始从该市推出，该市的跨国英语报刊才开始发展成为一个独特的媒体类别。本文考察了当时围绕这些期刊的活动，遵循布鲁诺·拉图尔的行为社会学，认为我们可以通过关注他们的活动和他们的争议来了解社会参与者和文化产品。这些期刊在这一时期的激烈新闻活动留下了许多痕迹，揭示了一段鲜为人知的创业与实验、创新与失败、联合与竞争的媒体历史，以及团体制作和社区建设。这些活动也捕捉到了巴黎跨国媒体历史上的一个特殊时刻，当时一种相当不确定的新闻和公众类型在城市和整个欧洲变得更加重要。考察这些期刊如何相互引用、建立新闻实践、发展基础设施和记录自己的历史，就是要见证它们是如何将自己构建为一个独特的跨国媒体形式的过程。通过关注新闻业的实际行动，我们可以揭开正在形成的跨国媒体历史。这些活动也捕捉到了巴黎跨国媒体历史上的一个特殊时刻，当时一种相当不确定的新闻和公众类型在城市和整个欧洲变得更加重要。考察这些期刊如何相互引用、建立新闻实践、发展基础设施和记录自己的历史，就是要见证它们是如何将自己构建为一个独特的跨国媒体形式的过程。通过关注新闻业的实际行动，我们可以揭开正在形成的跨国媒体历史。这些活动也捕捉到了巴黎跨国媒体历史上的一个特殊时刻，当时一种相当不确定的新闻和公众类型在城市和整个欧洲变得更加重要。考察这些期刊如何相互引用、建立新闻实践、发展基础设施和记录自己的历史，就是要见证它们是如何将自己构建为一个独特的跨国媒体形式的过程。通过关注新闻业的实际行动，我们可以揭开正在形成的跨国媒体历史。记录他们自己的历史是为了见证他们如何将自己构建为一个独特的跨国媒体形式。通过关注新闻业的实际行动，我们可以揭开正在形成的跨国媒体历史。记录他们自己的历史是为了见证他们如何将自己构建为一个独特的跨国媒体形式。通过关注新闻业的实际行动，我们可以揭开正在形成的跨国媒体历史。