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.
This website will be devoted to insightful articles, commentary and research that provide a more balanced perspective on what newspaper companies can do to survive and thrive in the years ahead.
enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The fascinating world of forgotten information. News Web sites unlock practically obscure public records. Report spotlights a dozen database pages and provide the raw data of survey of 133 newspaper Web sites reviewed. There’s also a compilation of databases found on those sites sorted into 11 categories of information.
News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary magazines, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.
The International Coalition on Newspapers Database of International Newspapers is a freely accessible electronic resource intended to provide reliable information on newspapers published outside of the United States. It includes bibliographic descriptions of titles as well as specific information on institutions’ holdings of the same. The database serves as a central locus for information on international newspaper collections available in North American libraries and in selected libraries outside North America, providing a tool for resource discovery, access, and collection management.
Fee. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of old newspaper pages from 1759 to present. Every old newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. Heritage Microfilm, Inc.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a pilot project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers. California’s weekly newspapers will be preserved in a searchable archive as UC Riverside expands its massive California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) to include the community chronicles of political, business and social history.
The Press was founded in 1886 by a group of friends, including Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin, who were already publishing Freedom newspaper, and has operated, with short breaks, ever since.