New Zealand Listener The students who trained an eagle to snatch a kid What propels exercises such as Golden Eagle Snatches Kid to circulate at such speed? Ryan Cordell, a lecturer at Northeastern University specializing in 19th-century periodical literature, analyses how newspapers and other mass media of the time disseminated news, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the criteria for what makes a story spread haven’t changed much. “It needs to […]