From the Library of Congress
"Christopher B. Daly discusses the development of journalism in America from the early 1700s to the digital revolution of today. Daly placed the current journalism crisis within a broader historical context, showing how it is only the latest in a series of transitions that have required journalists to devise new ways of plying their trade."
Newspapers
Newspapers: a Brief History
from WAN, the World Association of Newspapers
Johann Gutenberg
(from http://www.wan-press.org/article2821.html)
About this guide
Use this guide to find local, national, and international newspapers, or articles in the archives of the Seattle Times and many other important news sources. This subject guide is a broad overview offering many points of access to understand the news industry and the cultural institution that became known as newspapers - an institution that became fundamental to democracy.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter..."
~ President Thomas Jefferson
Click Jefferson's picture for a link
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 Michael Wood |
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