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Abstract
Among the first clients to benefit from the telegraph's capability radically to improve the speed and reliability of information circulation was the newspaper. This essay examines how editors in the British colonies of North America used the telegraph in newsgathering and what effects it had on the speed and routing of published communications. Regional, interregional, and international patterns of communications are examined. These issues are investigated in the context of theories of space-time convergence and of the relationship between technology and geography posited in H. A. Innis's communications theory.