An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present. Four veterans of digital journalism and media interviewed dozens of people who played important roles in the intersection of media and technology — from CEOs to coders, journalists to disruptors. More than 50 hours of video interviews and two narrative essays that trace the evolution of digital news from early experiments to today. It’s what really happened to the news business. A project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Chronicling America provides bulk access to its OCR data. Each file will decompress into directory structure that lets you easily map the OCR file to the URL identifier for that page. Historic American Newspapers
Encyclo is an encyclopedia of the future of news, produced by the Nieman Journalism Lab. It’s an attempt to figure out who the most important players and innovators are in the evolution of journalism — and to provide a centralized source for background, context, and the latest news about them. As of this writing, Encyclo is 184 entries on online news sites, newspapers, magazines, broadcast networks, technology companies, and more.
A workshop by Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy invites academics, publishers, journalists, bloggers, and information technology researchers to compare notes on how the Internet is transforming the news media.
The authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.
DealBook is a financial news service produced by The New York Times. It is published daily, Monday-Friday, except on U.S. Market holidays and during the last week of the year. features up-to-the-minute news and exclusives about Wall Street and corporate America. The continually updated report edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
This site is a collection of headlines from around the web, documenting the sad decline of traditional publishing. We love traditional media. Regardless, this seems to be the way of the world, and so we offer this site as an ephemeral chronicle of traditional media’s decline.